Wenzbach (Munich)

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Wenzbach
Wenzbach at the northern end of the Adolf Wenz settlement

Wenzbach at the northern end of the Adolf Wenz settlement

Data
location Bavaria
River system Danube
Drain over Land or raft canal  → Isar-Werkkanal  → Isar  → Danube  → Black Sea
source in the Pullach “Adolf-Wenz-Siedlung”
48 ° 4 ′ 36 ″  N , 11 ° 32 ′ 12 ″  E
Source height 531  m above sea level NHN
muzzle south of the Hinterbrühler See in the Ländkanal Coordinates: 48 ° 5 ′ 3 ″  N , 11 ° 32 ′ 27 ″  E 48 ° 5 ′ 3 ″  N , 11 ° 32 ′ 27 ″  E
Mouth height 528  m above sea level NHN
Height difference 3 m
Bottom slope approx. 3 ‰
length approx. 1 km
Wenzbach in Thalkirchen

Wenzbach in Thalkirchen

The mouth of the Wenzbach in the raft channel

The Wenzbach is about a kilometer long flowing water, which rises in the district Großhesselohe of the municipality Pullach im Isartal and in the neighboring district Thalkirchen in the south of Munich flows from the left into the raft or Ländkanal.

Course of water

The Wenzbach rises in the Adolf-Wenz settlement belonging to Großhesselohe near the street corner Adolf-Wenz-Straße / An der Isar at an altitude of 531  m above sea level. NHN .

At a distance of consistently less than 300 meters west of the Isar works canal accompanying the Isar on the left , the brook runs north along the western edge of the Isar floodplain on the slope of the Isar high bank. On the longest stretch, he is accompanied on the right by Conwentzstrasse, named after the botanist Hugo Conwentz (1855–1922). The stream runs mainly through private gardens and is therefore only accessible to the public in a few places. Below Villa Borscht at Heilmannstrasse 33, it runs through a small pond.

After about a kilometer, the stream crosses under Conwentzstrasse and then flows, shortly after it branches off to the left of the Isar-Werkkanal and south of the Hinterbrühler See , at 528  m above sea level. NHN in the raft or Ländkanal, whose only major tributary it is.

history

Adolf Wenz (1840–1927), namesake of the settlement and the brook, ran a clinker brick factory below the Großhesseloher bridge . In ancient mentions of Bach is therefore Wenzscher factory Bach or simply Factory Bach called.

On Thursday, October 17, 1946, American soldiers scattered the ashes of the eleven cremated war criminals of the Nuremberg Trials of Major War Criminals in the Wenzbach, after the corpses had been brought to the crematorium of the Munich East Cemetery for cremation and the urns had been brought to the villa overnight Oberhummer , Heilmannstrasse 25, above the Isar slope.

Web links

Commons : Wenzbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Height queried (by right-clicking) on ​​the map of the Wenzbach run in: BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( information ) with background layer Official map .
  2. ↑ Length measured on the map of the Wenzbach-Lauf in: BayernAtlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes ) with background layer Official map .
  3. ^ Hans Dollinger: The Munich street names . 6th edition. Südwest Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-517-08370-4 , pp. 55 .
  4. ↑ Personalities & History. Honorary citizen of our community. In: pullach.de. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
  5. ↑ From the foundation to the 1st World War. In: feuerwehr-pullach.de. Retrieved November 5, 2018.
  6. ↑ Dorle Gribl : Solln and the Prince Ludwigs-Höhe: Villas and their residents . Volk Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86222-043-4 , pp. 144, 193 .
  7. ^ Cremation of Top Flight Nazi Leaders in Germany . In: Schenectady Gazette . March 17, 1947, p. 8 ( online ).
  8. ^ Top Nazi's Ashes Reported Dumped in Creek . In: Stars and Stripes . March 19, 1947, p. 3 .