Wenceslas Hill
| Wenceslas Hill | ||
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 The Wenzelnberg in Langenfeld |
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| height | 111.5 m | |
| location | Langenfeld (Rhineland) | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 7 '20 " N , 6 ° 59' 29" E | |
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At 111.5 meters, the Wenzelnberg is the highest elevation in the city of Langenfeld (Rhineland) .
geography
The Wenzelnberg forms with the Spürklenberg and the Kellerhansberg in Immigrath as well as half a Heidberg in Leichlingen the only remnants of the former Leichlinger sand mountains . Together with the streets on Bruengersbroich , Heider Höfchen and Kapeller way / On the short break , the latter leading to Reinoldi Chapel in Solingen - Rupel Rath , the sandy hills located east of Highway 3 A on Leichlingen to and Solingen. They are also lined up in a north-south direction south of the B 229 , west of the Ziegwebersberg road and north of the Leichlinger Naturfreundehaus, with Wenzelnberg being its northernmost. Its origin is attributed to a prehistoric sea and its location with, among other things, the Rhine , on whose central terrace in front of the Bergisches Land are the sand mountains. The once rich sand deposits on the Leichlinger side facing the Ziegwebersberg road have now been almost completely excavated for the building materials industry and the glass industry .
In front of the Wenzelnberg in the north is the local location Gravenberg with the Romantik Hotel Lohmann and the site of the Gravenberg 06 football club (formerly TBV Landwehr 06 ). To the east, the route of the former Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft forms a visual border to Solingen, where the localities Rupelrath and Gosse are located in the former Dückeburg hunting area . The elevated tank of the Stadtwerke Langenfeld has been located on the Wenzelnberg itself since 1909 , which before its renovation in 1937 held around 1000 m³ of water and brings enough pressure into the entire pipeline network for the water supply . Incidentally, its ceiling towers over the actual mountain peak of the Wenzelnberg at 116.3 m .
memorial
Wenzelnberg is known beyond the city limits today because of a final phase crime committed there on April 13, 1945 . On that day, 68 men known by name and three unknown men died in a ravine of the Wenzelnberg, who were executed there by the National Socialists without trial .
After the war, the bodies were exhumed by 25 locally known National Socialists under the supervision of American occupation soldiers and later buried in front of the town hall in Solingen-Ohligs . In 1965 the victims were reburied at the Wenzelnberg memorial , where an annual commemoration event takes place. These commemorations are organized alternately by the cities of Langenfeld , Leverkusen , Remscheid , Solingen and Wuppertal . The German Federation of Trade Unions also takes part .
