A memorial cross commemorates and warns of a tragic event shortly before the end of the Second World War: on March 8, 1945, the Becher siblings (Walburga, Regina, Richard and Albert) as well as the family Wilhelm and Maria Becher and their son Walter from Bonn were killed by aerial bombs on Hof Holschbach.

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