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North Rhine-Westphalia

Düsseldorf District

Regierungsbezirk Düsseldorf

Galgenberg Viersen

North Rhine-Westphalia

Düsseldorf District

Regierungsbezirk Düsseldorf

Galgenberg Viersen

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Galgenberg Viersen

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Location: Regierungsbezirk Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Didada

January 31, 2022

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The Viersener Galgenberg is right on the city limits of Mönchengladbach. Here the convicts over whom "the staff was broken" were executed. In old Viersen, death sentences were pronounced from the Weisenstein, which today, like then, is on the square by the Remigius Church. The youngest of the seven jury judges climbed onto the stone, had the condemned man led in front of him and broke two bars over his head. This meant that the fellowship of the convict with the people of Viersen was symbolically broken.

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Franz Josef Klingen

August 28, 2025

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On the city border between Viersen and Mönchengladbach there are two typical things that were usually banished to the outskirts of the city on the Lower Rhine: the Galgenberg on the Viersen side and the Lungensanatorium (today Kliniken Maria Hilf) on the Mönchengladbach side.

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amber13

August 1, 2020

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An old place of execution by Viersen. This is where the gallows stood.

The condition of the place leaves a little to be desired.

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MTB Park Viersen – Landwehr Trail loop from Rheydt-Odenkirchen

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Landwehr Trail – Bismarck Tower Viersen loop from Helenabrunn

27.9km

01:51

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Niers Riverside Path – Niers Cycle Path loop from Mönchengladbach-Rheindahlen

46.8km

02:45

110m

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Elevation 120 m

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Location: Regierungsbezirk Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Galgenberg Viersen

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MTB Park Viersen – Landwehr Trail loop from Rheydt-Odenkirchen

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Landwehr Trail – Bismarck Tower Viersen loop from Helenabrunn

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Niers Riverside Path – Niers Cycle Path loop from Mönchengladbach-Rheindahlen

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