Der Birkenkopf (March 4, 2007)

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So, Johannes (our German guide/friend!) called up me and Justin to see if we wanted to go to the Birkenkopf in Stuttgart. This is a mountain created from rubble left over from the destruction of the city in WWII. During the rebuilding, they would just haul up the broken chunks of houses to this hill outside of town and just pile it on. You can even tell that some of stones were from buildings because of the art on them.


Now, it's almost like a park. People walk up to it on Sundays and look around. It's now the tallest hill around Stuttgart. There is a similar hill to this around almost every big German city that was destroyed in WWII.



This says "BIRKENKOPF - originally 471.00 m above sea level, today 511.20 m above sea level. A raise of about 40.20 m from 1953-57 through the fill of 1.5 (15? comma is graffiti) million cubic meters of rubble from the 53 air attacks in WWII that led to the 45% destruction of the city of Stuttgart."