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The Luitpold Hill, popularly also known as the Luitpoldberg and previously also known as the Small Rubble Mountain, is a 37 meter high mountain of rubble in the Luitpoldpark west of Scheidplatz in the Schwabing-West district of Munich.
October 8, 2023
A part of old Munich lies buried under this mountain, the Luitpold Hill. In the final years of the Second World War, thousands upon thousands of incendiary bombs and explosive devices fell on the city; To this day, unexploded bombs are repeatedly found in the ground during construction work. Because Munich was not only the location of many armaments factories, but also the "capital of the movement" of the National Socialists, a central target for Allied bombers. In 1945, every second building in the city was destroyed. The Luitpold Hill did not exist back then. The Luitpoldpark, created in 1911 in honor of Prince Regent Luitpold, was originally largely flat. After the war, the people of Munich brought the rubble of their houses here and piled up the Luitpold Hill, as well as the Neuhofener Berg on the Sendlinger Isar high bank or today's Olympiaberg on the Oberwiesenfeld.Source and further information
sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/luitpoldpark-der-schuttberg-1.4257581
October 11, 2023
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