Dreikopf (Hunsrück)
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| height | 501.8 m | |
| location | Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany | |
| Mountains | Hunsrück | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 39 '3 " N , 6 ° 40' 14" E | |
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The three-head (popularly sometimes Trier mountain is called), an approximately 510 m high mountain of Pellinger plateaus between Lampaden , Paschel and Vierherrenborn in the Rheinische Schiefergebirge counting Hunsrück . The mountain on which there is now a wind farm was the historic site of the Battle of Lampaden in World War II . From Dreikopf you have a good view of the so-called Konzer Tälchen , a former arch of the Saar and the Saar-Ruwer-Hunsrück and Saar-Hunsrück .
Origin of name and history
The name of the mountain is derived from a barrow near Steinbachweier . The burial mound dates from the Latène period
In the early modern period, the three-headed head was considered to be an important witches' dance venue alongside the Hetzerather Heide . He gained fame as such when the Trier aldermen Nicolaus Fiedler was tortured and executed eight times in 1590/91 because he was supposedly there for activities of witchcraft .
During the Second World War, the Dreikopf became the scene of the Battle of Lampaden from March 6th to 8th, 1945. On the personal orders of Adolf Hitler , German soldiers of the 6th SS Mountain Division "North" tried unsuccessfully to join the 94th American Division beat. The German division was almost completely destroyed. Large parts of the lampades were destroyed; The district of Obersehr was particularly hard hit. Several hundred soldiers were killed on both sides. The number of American dead is given as a little over 400; so many dead GIs were laid out in the church of Lampaden and later carried away by their comrades. The number of dead from the Waffen SS and Wehrmacht is more difficult to determine; While older sources regularly speak of 800 German casualties, this has recently been questioned and the number has been put at around 400. Elsewhere there is talk of 200 Germans and 400 Americans who died within five days in the fighting over the Dreikopf.
geology
On the three-head one finds typical of the Rhenish Slate Mountains slate .
Attractions
There is also a chapel on the tri-head in memory of the fighting during the Battle of Lampaden.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The early turntable ceramics of the Hunsrück-Eifel culture. In: A. Kern et al. (Ed.), Technology development and transfer in the Hallstatt and Latène times (Langenweissbach 2012) 139-144.
- ↑ Hans Nortmann / Solveig K. Ehlers: The early La Tène age burial mounds on the "Dreikopf" near Pellingen, Trier-Saarburg district. - pp. 69-142.
- ↑ 2000 years of Trier. Volume 3. Trier in modern times. Published by Trier University. Spee-Verlag, 1988. ISBN 3-87760-067-0
- ↑ The bloody battle for Lampaden. Trierischer Volksfreund , February 27, 2015.
- ↑ a b From the high forest. Crosses and memorial stones. Edited by the local history working group, Johanneshaus Hermeskeil. Hermeskeil 1991.
- ↑ Hans Muth: Memories and Emotions. Trierischer Volksfreund , October 16, 2009.
- ↑ Return of the Americans. Trierischer Volksfreund , November 2, 2010.