Forsthaus Hülloch

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Forsthaus Hülloch
Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 15 ″  N , 6 ° 50 ′ 5 ″  E
Height : 430 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 53902
Area code : 02253
Forsthaus Hülloch (Bad Münstereifel)
Forsthaus Hülloch

Location of Forsthaus Hülloch in Bad Münstereifel

Forsthaus Hülloch is a district of Bad Münstereifel in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

The small town is located east of Bad Münstereifel in the middle of the Münstereifel forest on the road 498 from Bad Münstereifel-Scheuren to Bad Münstereifel, which runs past it to the south . The border with the city of Euskirchen runs around 1.2 km north of the forester's house.

history

The Commander in Chief of the Army , Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch , had his quarters at Forsthaus Hülloch at the beginning of the western campaign in 1940. The Rodert district of Bad Münstereifel is located around 4 km to the west as the crow flies , and the Führer headquarters " Felsennest " was located there. Adolf Hitler used this headquarters from May 10, 1940 to June 6, 1940.

As part of the company "Wacht am Rhein" (so-called Ardennes offensive from December 16, 1944), Field Marshal Walter Model , Commander-in-Chief of Army Group B , used the former OKH quarters. The forester's house with the surrounding bunker and barracks camp was attacked twice from the air. Today you can still find numerous massive concrete debris near the forester's house. In front of the entrance to the forestry department, there is a still-preserved, listed building .

The forester's house area is not accessible as it is owned by the Haniel Forest Administration, which had its Haniel hunting lodge, now a listed building, built there by the Düsseldorf architect Paul Schneider-Esleben from 1951 to 1953 .

literature

  • Hans-Josef Hansen: Felsennest - The forgotten leader's headquarters in the Eifel. Construction, use, destruction. Helios, Aachen 2008, extended new edition

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Main statute of the city of Bad Münstereifel, § 1. (PDF; 71 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on January 21, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bad-muenstereifel.de
  2. ^ Official topographic maps North Rhine-Westphalia TOP50 2nd edition, May 1999
  3. ↑ TOP 25 sheets 5406 and 5407 of the LVermA North Rhine-Westphalia