The English monument commemorates a tragic accident in April 1936, when five English pupils died in the snow.

See also: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engl%C3%Aderungl%C3%BCck

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Chris🐼

February 18, 2020

When we hike on or over the Schauinsland our route leads past the sad monument.

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Andi

September 26, 2021

The evening ringing of the Hofsgrund church and the courageous commitment of the entire Hofsgrund population saved the lives of the majority of a group of 27 students from the Strand School in London-Brixton who were in distress at the Schauinsland on the evening of April 17, 1936. Any help came too late for 5 students between the ages of 12 and 14. Four of them could not be resuscitated by the Hofsgrund rescuers in the inn "Hof". The fifth student died just 10 minutes after the ambulance arrived at the Freiburg University Hospital early in the morning of the next day. Another was kept alive in the clinic. It was only in retrospect that the full extent of the accident on April 17, 1936 could be overlooked: a group of 28 people - 27 students between the ages of 12 and 17 and their teacher - had got into mountain difficulties and if the rescuers from Hofsgrund hadn't been there , even more people would have died. Completely disoriented, the teacher and the group finally climbed up the Kappler Wand cross-country in fog and heavy snowfall to seek shelter somewhere. But five young people had died that evening on Freiburg's local mountain due to exhaustion and circulatory failure.
Source: hainmueller.de/publikationen/17-april-1936-wanderung-in-den-tod-am-schauinsland.html

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