The Wenzbach (German, 'Wenz brook') is a small river, which rises in the district of Großhesselohe in the municipality

Pullach Pullach, officially Pullach i. Isartal, is a municipality in the district of Munich in Bavaria in Germany. It lies on the Isar Valley Railway and is served by the S 7 line of the Munich S-Bahn, at the Großhesselohe Isartalbahnhof, Pullach and ...

and in the neighboring district of Thalkirchen in southern

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, which flows from the left into the Floßkanal.

History

Adolf Wenz (1840–1927), namesake of the settlement and the stream, ran a

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factory below the Großhesseloher Brücke. In old mentions, the stream was therefore called Wenzscher Fabrikbach or simply Fabrikbach. On Thursday, 17 October 1946, US soldiers scattered the ashes of eleven cremated war criminals of the

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in the Wenzbach, a small tributary of the River

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to prevent the establishment of a permanent burial site which might be enshrined by

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groups.

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