Düren rubble mountain

The rubble mountain Düren is an artificial mountain in Düren , North Rhine-Westphalia , on the Nideggener Straße , directly on the Burgauer Forest in front of the Krauthausen district . In addition to the rubble mountain, to the east is the listed Gut Weyern and to the north is the Düren vocational support organization . In the area of the mountain is a shooting range of the Kentucky Muzzle Loaders , a muzzle loader shooting club .

The inner city of Düren was almost completely destroyed in a massive air raid on November 16, 1944 . The plan was to rebuild the city to the south. However, this plan was rejected and the town began to be drained .

The rubble had to be cleared by the people, mostly forced laborers , and lanes and sidewalks cleared. After the American occupation of the city on February 25, 1945, these heavy bulldozers were used to master the masses of rubble. In January 1946, the city signed a contract with a Birkesdorf company to remove the rubble . The road maintenance depot in Düren used to be located directly across from today's rubble mountain; today, the Aldi supermarket is located there .

Since the removal of the rubble by a single local company was too lengthy, the city confiscated the rubble in April 1946 and commissioned the Milke company from Soest to remove it. On August 10, 1947, the company started up a debris sorting facility at the Jesuitenhof . There, 300 to 400 cubic meters of rubble were collected for reuse every day. The Marienkirche was built largely from recycled rubble. Bricks that could no longer be used were broken and z. B. used for fastening sidewalks, as stones in concrete, etc.

The company used around 150 lorries . The then Lord Mayor Richard Bollig assumed that around 560,000 cubic meters of rubble would be cleared in five years. It was ultimately a million cubic feet of rubble. Once a month men between 17 and 60 years of age had to help with the debris removal. They were paid for with food . So the mountain of rubble grew steadily.

Hundreds of trucks from the surrounding cities, from Aachen , Cologne , Wuppertal , Bonn and Euskirchen exported more than 50% of the Düren rubble recycling materials to other destinations every day. Several wagons with scrap were exported to many countries, even after Pakistan supplied. The rubble was recycled in various building materials .

The field railway to the rubble mountain was dismantled in April 1950. In the 2000s, investors planned an amusement park on the mountain. This idea was quickly rejected.

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50.78217 6.48981Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 55.8 " N , 6 ° 29 ′ 23.3" E