All that remains of the memorial built in the 1920s in honor of the then Reich President Paul von Hindenburg and the war dead and largely destroyed in the Second World War is a viewing platform, which is definitely worth a visit. Until the end of the Second World War, the 15 meter high, pyramid-shaped monument stood on today's platform.

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"... There used to be a Hindenburg monument on the Reifershardt in Windeck. It was erected between 1914 and 1924 by students from the former Otto-Kühne-School (today: Bodelschwingh-Gymnasium Herchen) in …

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