Location: War cemetery memorial site
102 soldiers and civilians between the ages of 2 and 37 rest at the Lucherberg cemetery of honour for the victims of the Second World War. The location of the war cemetery here on the hillside was determined by pure chance. During the battles for Stolberg in September 1944, a German engineer unit had to transport ammunition from Lucherberg to Stolberg.
After the return of the first Lucherberg citizens from the evacuation in spring 1945, the fallen soldiers who were still scattered around the village were recovered and buried here with their comrades.
No one was left behind when it came to creating a new, dignified cemetery for the fallen and the dead of the village. The memorial was not an ostentatious monument, but a local boulder with a simple bronze plaque :
‘Take care, you who are still alive and have seen us die in battle, that peace may remain – peace between people and peace between nation’
During an air raid on the Haus Hardt operations camp on the site of today’s Nörvenich airbase on 28 September 1944, 36 Hitler Youth were killed. Among the dead were four 15 to 18-year-olds from Lucherberg and Luchem; they rest today directly in front of the High Cross.
They brought back wounded and fallen soldiers from the front. The wounded were treated at the main dressing centre in Lucherberg and the fallen were buried on a meadow slope. The pioneers terraced the slope, built dry stone walls in the embankment, laid a stone staircase and surrounded the site with a wall.
Three young Polish and Ukrainian children died between October 1943 and July 1944. They had come to Frenz with their parents for forced labour.
In 1944, a 34-year-old Pole from the Lamersdorf paper factory and a 30-year-old forced labourer from Frenz Castle died. These five dead were reburied from the Frenz cemetery to the war cemetery in Lucherberg in a ceremonial act in 2012. A new joint memorial stone marks their resting place.