Extract from the "Walk on the Herzberg" in the city of Peine.
A giant had come from the Lüneburg Heath and had sand in his boots. Shortly before Peine he took them off and simply poured the contents into the area. There was a hill on which the giant laid his weary head to rest. The head pressed a heart-shaped depression into the pile of sand, after which the people of torment later named the hill Herzberg. At the end of the 19th century they wanted to reforest the site, but money was again tight. If the Herzberg is now available to walkers as a wonderful urban forest, it is thanks to a man to whom the tormentors erected a monument in the park: Adolf Wilhelm Krasnapolsky. The construction of the Herzberg was supposed to cost 30,000 gold marks, and Krasnapolsky donated this amount to the city of Peine in 1911. The donor, a trained tailor, did not last long in his hometown. So he went on a journey and came to Amsterdam in 1856 at the age of 22. Here he came to wealth through his commercial skills and his open-minded manner. The Herzberg walk begins at Kastanienallee, where a roundabout marks the entrance. Noteworthy: an older and a contemporary memorial. From here the path leads to the water tower on the hill, a functional building that conveys castle romance in the style of the time. Further to the left, a path leads to Krasnapolsky Square with a view of the so-called Liebesgrund.
In addition to the water tower on Friedrich Ebert Platz, this water tower in Herzberg is much larger and is also higher, so that more households could be supplied with drinking water. Info: tourismus-peine.de/tuerme
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