Heilbrunn (municipality of Anger)
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| Basic data | |||
| Pole. District , state | Weiz (WZ), Styria | ||
| Judicial district | Wheat | ||
| Pole. local community | Anger | ||
| Coordinates | 47 ° 20 '14 " N , 15 ° 36' 32" E | ||
| height | 1032 m above sea level A. | ||
| Residents of the stat. An H. | 36 (2001) | ||
| Post Code | 8172 | ||
| prefix | + 43/3179 | ||
| Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk | |||
As Kirchweiler, Heilbrunn is the largest town in the municipality of Anger in Styria.
history
Heilbrunn can look back on a history of around 380 years.
The healing effect of the source of the "Holy Well" was the origin of the place. The small town of Heilbrunn is also known for its music association.
US bomber crash in 1943
On October 1, 1943, an American B-24 Liberator bomber crashed near Heilbrunn after an aerial battle over the Wiener Neustädter Flugzeugwerke . The machine with the serial number 41-23711 was piloted by William F. Stein, who was killed together with eight men of his crew in the crash. The only survivor was the navigator William W. Sykes, who was then taken prisoner for 19 months. The fallen Americans were first buried in the village cemetery and transferred to the United States in March 1950, where they found their final resting place in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis .
Today there is a memorial stone in German and English on a hiking trail near the crash site.
 
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Location in Styria |
Culture and sights
- Parish and pilgrimage church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary
- Well chapel with sculptural group of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in front of the pilgrimage church
Web links
literature
- Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Styria (excluding Graz). Heilbrunn. Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 1982/2006, 2nd unchanged edition, p. 173, ISBN 3-85028-422-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Forum entry ( memento of the original from November 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website www.armyairforces.com, accessed November 9, 2014
- ^ William F. Stein in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 9, 2015.
- ↑ Crash of an American bomber near Naintsch / Heilbrunn , website regiowiki.at, accessed on November 11, 2014
