High Brendten
| High Brendten | ||
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 View of the Hohe Brendten (from the south) - in front of it the Wildensee |
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| height | 1193 m | |
| location | Bavaria | |
| Mountains | Wetterstein Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 27 '35 " N , 11 ° 14' 35" E | |
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The Hohe Brendten ( 1193 m ) is a hill in front of the Kranzberg near Mittenwald in the northeast. The Hohe Brendten is hilly and dominated by forest. Numerous, mostly unpaved roads run through the area.
Military objects
On the Hoher Brendten which maintains armed forces in close proximity to Luttensee barracks a training area .
Memorial of the mountain troops
history
The memorial for the fallen soldiers of the mountain troops is located on the training area at an altitude of 1138 m and just under a kilometer northeast of the summit . It was designed by Sebastian Norkauer (1923–2000), son of the architect Fritz Norkauer .
The memorial for the fallen soldiers of the mountain troops of both world wars was inaugurated on Whitsun in 1957, shortly after the Bundeswehr, founded in 1955, set up two mountain fighter battalions in Mittenwald in mid-July 1956 . This reactivation of Mittenwald as the location of the mountain troops and the preparations for the erection of the memorial were accompanied by the establishment of the Mittenwald local comradeship in the group of comrades of the mountain troops , which then also played a key role in the inauguration of the memorial.
For the Brendten celebration in 2015, the addition of a new element to the memorial was inaugurated for the fallen soldiers of the mountain troops of the Bundeswehr. It was created based on an idea by the architect Hermann Norkauer, the son of Sebastian Norkauer, by the stonemason Christoph Falk. A horizontal plate weighing six tons now forms a counterpoint to the two vertical pillars for the victims of the world wars, complemented by a vertical wooden cross. An edelweiss image is attached to the front , and the inscription on the left side of the granite block reads: "The mountain soldiers of the Bundeswehr who gave their lives for peace, justice and freedom."
Brendten celebration
Since the memorial was erected, a commemoration of the comrades of the mountain troops, the so-called Brendten celebration , has taken place every year at Whitsun on the Hohe Brendten . Initially dedicated only to the dead of the German mountain troops in the world wars, the victims of war and violence have been commemorated for several years. In the meantime, delegations of mountain troops from other countries, particularly those organized in the International Federation of Mountain Soldiers , regularly take part in the event .
criticism
Under the influence of contemporary historical research such as that of Jakob Knab and Hermann Frank Meyer on the involvement of the mountain troops of the Wehrmacht in war crimes and their role in the traditional work of the comrades' group, the "Working Group on Attackable Traditions" was founded. Together with the VVN, in the years 2002 to 2009, in close proximity to the Brendten celebration, it organized a wide range of activities in which the mountain troops were only partially dealt with and were involved in war crimes of the Second World War.
The comrades group consisting of former Wehrmacht soldiers , members of the German Armed Forces and German Armed Forces veterans rejected the allegations of historical revisionism and the glorification of war and defended themselves against the accusation of denying war crimes.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The traditional association wants to keep up with the times , Merkur online, April 23, 2014.
- ↑ a b Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Mittenwald local comradeship in the comrades' circle of the mountain troops ( Memento from November 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.7 MB), 2006, accessed on March 22, 2013
- ↑ Interesting facts about the Mittenwald garrison , www.deutschesheer.de, accessed on March 22, 2013
- ↑ Commemoration has a second face. Mittenwald - The memorial on the Hohe Brendten near Mittenwald will in future also commemorate the dead of the Bundeswehr. Merkur.de, October 28, 2014, archived from the original on April 2, 2018 ; accessed on April 2, 2018 .
- ^ Hermann Frank Meyer: Bloody edelweiss. The 1st Mountain Division in World War II , 2008 ( online )
- ↑ Bavarian Constitutional Protection Report 2006, p. 168f ( Memento of November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 4.8 MB)
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.vvn-bda.de/aktuelles/2009/20090505.html