Gloom Cross
The Dark Cross is one of the few firefighters - monuments in Germany. It is in the forest near Nideggen in the Düren district , North Rhine-Westphalia .
The Düsterkreuz was erected in 1912 in memory of the fireman Heinrich Düster. Gloomy died at this point in a forest fire on September 9, 1911.
The fire broke out in the Jungholz between Nideggen and Rath . Heinrich Düster, then 24 years old and a member of the Nideggen volunteer fire brigade , was also busy extinguishing the fire. He was run over by a roller of fire and burned while trying to keep the flames away from an adjacent tall pine forest . His identity could only be established through the pocket watch he found.
On the board at the gloomy cross it says:
"In the courageous struggle for the beauty of his native heights and true to the voluntarily assumed duties, the fire fighter Heinrich Düster, Nideggen, died here in a flame on September 9, 1911."
In Nideggen, Heinrich-Düster-Strasse was named after the burned fireman.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.dueren.city-map.de/02014800/duesterkreuz-in-nideggen
- ↑ https://www.feuerwehr-nideggen.de/index.php/duesterkreuz.html
Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 33.1 ″ N , 6 ° 28 ′ 22.3 ″ E