Landwehr is the German word for a type of national home guard or territorial army. It may also refer to:

Geography

  • Landwehr, Lower Saxony, Germany, a municipality
  • Landwehr (Golßen), a village in the borough of Golßen, Brandenburg, Germany
  • Landwehr (Halver), a farmstead in the borough of Halver, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Landwehr (Menden), a village in the borough of Menden, Sauerland, Germany
  • Landwehr (Quarnbek), a village in the municipality of Quarnbek in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
  • Landwehr (Radevormwald), part of Radevormwald in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Landwehr, until 1938 Geswethen, a county of Insterburg, East Prussia, since 1946: Nagornoje, a settlement in Chernyakhovsky District, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia
  • Kirchwehrener Landwehr, a stream in Hanover Region, Germany
  • Landwehr (Wachau), a woodland in Wachau, Saxony near Radeberg, Saxony, Germany

Fortifications and borders

  • Landwehr (border), a medieval border demarcation or fortified border around a settlement or territory in Europe
  • Landwehr (Astengebiet), a series of fortifications around the Kahler Asten in the county of Hochsauerlandkreis, Germany

People

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