Wenzbach

Wenzbach
Wenzbach at the northern end of the Adolf-Wenz-Siedlung
Location
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Physical characteristics
Source
• coordinates	48°04′36″N 11°32′12″E
Mouth
• coordinates	48°05′03″N 11°32′27″E
Length	1 km (0.62 mi)

The Wenzbach (German, 'Wenz brook') is a small 1-kilometre-long (0.62 mi) 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.

References

1. Persönlichkeiten & Geschichte. Ehrenbürger unserer Gemeinde. In: pullach.de. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
2. Von der Gründung bis zum 1. Weltkrieg. In: feuerwehr-pullach.de. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
3. Dorle Gribl (2012). Solln und die Prinz Ludwigs-Höhe: Villen und ihre Bewohner. Mich: Volk Verlag. pp. 144, 193. ISBN 978-3-86222-043-4.
4. Darnstädt, Thomas (13 September 2005). "Ein Glücksfall der Geschichte". Der Spiegel. No. 14. p. 128.
5. Manvell, Roger; Fraenkel, Heinrich (2011) [1962]. Goering: The Rise and Fall of the Notorious Nazi Leader. London: Skyhorse. p. 393. ISBN 978-1-61608-109-6.
6. Overy, Richard J. (2001). Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945. New York: Viking. p. 205. ISBN 978-0-670-03008-8.

External links

• Media related to Wenzbach at Wikimedia Commons