Wenzbach Explained

Wenzbach
Subdivision Type1:Country
Subdivision Name1:Germany
Subdivision Type2:State
Subdivision Name2:Bavaria
Length:1km (01miles)
Source1 Coordinates:48.0767°N 11.5367°W
Mouth Coordinates:48.0842°N 11.5408°W

The Wenzbach (German, 'Wenz brook') is a small 1adj=midNaNadj=mid river, which rises in the district of Großhesselohe in the municipality Pullach and in the neighboring district of Thalkirchen in southern Munich, which flows from the left into the Floßkanal.

History

Adolf Wenz (1840–1927),[1] namesake of the settlement and the stream, ran a clinker brick factory below the Großhesseloher Brücke.[2] In old mentions, the stream was therefore called Wenzscher Fabrikbach or simply Fabrikbach.[3]

On Thursday, 17 October 1946, US soldiers scattered the ashes of eleven cremated war criminals of the Nuremberg trials in the Wenzbach, a small tributary of the River Isar[4] [5] [6] to prevent the establishment of a permanent burial site which might be enshrined by nationalist groups.

Notes and References

  1. https://www.pullach.de/pullach/geschichte Persönlichkeiten & Geschichte. Ehrenbürger unserer Gemeinde.
  2. https://www.feuerwehr-pullach.de/index.php?article_id=47 Von der Gründung bis zum 1. Weltkrieg.
  3. Book: . Solln und die Prinz Ludwigs-Höhe: Villen und ihre Bewohner . Volk Verlag . Mich . 2012 . 978-3-86222-043-4 . 144, 193.
  4. Darnstädt . Thomas . Ein Glücksfall der Geschichte . . 13 September 2005 . 14 . 128.
  5. Book: Manvell . Roger . Fraenkel . Heinrich . Roger Manvell . Heinrich Fraenkel . Goering: The Rise and Fall of the Notorious Nazi Leader . Skyhorse . London . 2011 . 1962 . 978-1-61608-109-6 . 393.
  6. Book: Overy . Richard J. . Richard Overy . Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945 . 2001 . Viking . New York . 978-0-670-03008-8 . 205.