Editing Celle (section)

===Modern period===
In 1842 the Cambridge Dragoons Barracks (''Cambridge-Dragoner-Kaserne'') for the homonymous regiment named after the Hanoveran Viceroy Duke [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]], was built in Celle. After being extended in 1913 and partially rebuilt after a fire in 1936, it was renamed ''Goodwood Barracks'' in 1945 and from 1976 to 1996 was the headquarters of Panzerbrigade 33 in the German armed forces, the [[Bundeswehr]]. In 1989 it was renamed again to Cambridge-Dragoner-Kaserne. Since 1996 the area has mainly been used to house one of the largest youth centres in Lower Saxony.

From 1869 to 1872 an infantry barracks was built for the 77th Infantry Regiment which also gave the main street (running the length of the front of the barracks) its name of 77er Strasse. In 1938 it was renamed the ''Heidekaserne'' ("Heath Barracks"). After the [[Second World War]] the barracks was used by [[British Army|British troops]] until 1993 during which time 94 Locating Regiment Royal Artillery held residency for over 25 years, followed briefly by 14 Signal Regiment, which relocated from Scheuen until the barracks were handed back to the local authorities. Today the New Town Hall (''Neue Rathaus'') and Celle Council Offices are housed in the restored brick building. Residential buildings and a town park have been established on the rest of the terrain. 
[[File:Celle RRD.jpg|thumb|[[Steel engraving]] of the marketplace around 1845]]
In 1892 − with the help of numerous citizens' donations − the present-day ''Bomann Museum'' with its important folklore and town-history collections was founded. In 1913 the 74&nbsp;metre high [[clock tower]] was built on the town church and its clockwork underwent a major restoration in 2008. In the 1920s the silk mill was built. It was merged in 1932 with the one in [[Peine]] to become the ''Seidenwerk Spinnhütte AG''. This concern expanded during the [[Nazi era]] into an armaments centre under the name of Seidenwerk Spinnhütte AG. A subsidiary founded in 1936, the Mitteldeutsche Spinnhütte AG, led war preparations through its branches in the central German towns of [[Apolda]], [[Plauen]], [[Osterode am Harz|Osterode]], [[Pirna]] and [[Wanfried]]. Its only product was the [[parachute]] silk needed for the paratroopers of the [[Wehrmacht]].<ref>Hubertus Feußner, Die Spinnhütte, = Apoldaer Heimat. Beiträge zur Natur und Heimatgeschichte der Stadt Apolda und ihrer Umgebung 2008, S. 29ff.</ref>

During [[World War I]], Germany operated two [[German prisoner-of-war camps in World War I|prisoner-of-war camps]] in Celle, and among its prisoners were British, Polish, Romanian, French, Belgian and Russian POWs and civilians.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Stanek|first=Piotr|year=2017|title=Niemieckie obozy jenieckie dla Polaków z armii rosyjskiej w latach I wojny światowej (1916–1918)|journal=Łambinowicki rocznik muzealny|location=Opole|language=pl|volume=40|pages=60–61|issn=0137-5199}}</ref> In 1916–1917, the Germans operated a special sub-sector for Polish POWs at one of the camps, with the aim of subjecting them to propaganda and conscripting them into a planned German-controlled Polish army to fight against Russia.<ref>Stanek, pp. 45, 61</ref>

In September 1929 [[Rudolph Karstadt]] opened a [[Karstadt]] department store in Celle town centre, the façade of which was identical to that of the Karstadt store on [[Berlin]]'s Hermannplatz. The Celle branch was demolished in the 1960s and replaced by a controversial new building, the aluminium-braced facade of which was meant to represent Celle's [[timber framing|timber-framed houses]].