Heidgen forest settlement
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Heidgen forest settlement
City of Bergisch Gladbach
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 59 ″ N , 7 ° 4 ′ 26 ″ E
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Location of Waldsiedlung Heidgen in Bergisch Gladbach |
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The Heidgen forest settlement is a district in the Katterbach district of Bergisch Gladbach .
history
The Heidgen forest settlement was created during the Second World War by the Todt organization , which erected four labor camp buildings here in 1940. After the war, the complex was privately owned by the Federal Property Administration .
The name Waldsiedlung is based on the topographical location of the settlement, as it is surrounded by forest, which partly belongs to the city of Cologne . The name Heidgen creates a spatial reference to the neighboring village of Heidgen .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Andree Schulte, Bergisch Gladbach, city history in street names , published by the Bergisch Gladbach city archive, volume 3, and by the Bergisches Geschichtsverein department Rhein-Berg e. V., Volume 11, Bergisch Gladbach 1995, p. 50, ISBN 3-9804448-0-5