Riddles at Monte Scherbelino

 

 

At the edge of the walkway access on the way up, there is debris that didn't quite make it to the top. I call this one the "keyhole rock", a fully worked structure with machining hatching on the side and a key-like hole on top. It is possible that in modern times this rock was worked in such a way that a barrier with a tilting mechanism could be placed in the recess. After the war, manipulators were thus able to block access to the very top at will. Such a "bulky" object could have come from the former collegiate church.

 

 

Was stimmt nicht mit dem Monte Scherbelino (Stuttgart)? Auf dem Birkenkopf, einer Anhöhe nahe Stuttgarts, wurden nach offizieller

What is wrong with Monte Scherbelino (Stuttgart)? According to official statements, more than 1.5 million cubic metres of rubble from the bombing nights of 1940 to 1945 were deposited on the Birkenkopf, a hill near Stuttgart, between 1953 and 1957. It is said to be the results of 83 bombing raids.

 

In those 4 years, 40 metres were piled up on the mountain, which is now known only as the mountain of rubble (hence Scherbelino). There have been pictures of this mountain since the 53s; in the period before that, I have not been able to find anything in the way of pictures or engravings in my picture research. During the war, the area (at a lower level) served as an anti-aircraft fortress/base. 

For copyright reasons I can only link old aerial photographs from 1954, as >> here and >> here. It is possible that the mountain of rubble looked different in 1972 than it does today. All the archive photos shown to us online are so low resolution that only a few details can be made out. 

 

It is also strange that in all black-and-white photographs (from 1954), the upper plateau was already there. So by 1954 the plateau had already been filled in (within a year) and what should have happened by 1957? >> Here is another picture from 1956,

which in my view makes no difference to the pictures from 1954. Did they use the opportunity near the war to "grind" cairn remains in the lower part of the mountain, to remove unpleasant older traces and to fill up a rubbish dump? Why was such heavy debris brought up there in the first place and how many of them were there really?

 

Today there are portals, columns and sculptures on the top of the Birch Head. Some of them are very interesting pieces of historical buildings, which according to science are classified as "historicism".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then there is the matter of the oak: On the uppermost plateau there is an oak that is easily 160 years old (calculable according to the diameter of the trunk). You can see it quite clearly - it stands out from the surrounding vegetation. How can that be if the upper plateau was only built up in the 1950s? There is no sign of a tree in the old photos. Was a tree that was already almost 100 years old planted there later? Seems unlikely to me.

 

 

The tree (above in all its glory) does not fit chronologically into the history of the origin of the alleged rubbish dump on the mountain. We have determined an age of about 160 years for this oak, which is located at the edge of the uppermost plateau. However, 160 years ago this plateau allegedly did not exist or was only filled in in the 1960s.

 

 

There are also dry-stone walls and a buried mountain access at the foot of the mountain, which could indicate a former cairn. The debris on the upper plateau looks like the remains of a neoclassical villa or a temple (Greco-Roman style) - several different buildings. Only rarely are "modern" remains from the 20th century interspersed. To me, it looks like a mountain of show rubble. Surely also intentional, so that the "old sins" are commemorated here.

 

Here at the foot of the mountain, dry-stone walls are found in varying condition, presumably also built at different intervals in time.

 

 

Dry stone walls from another time, around a buried entrance that leads into the interior of the mountain. We do not know if it was built in the last century or further back.

 

 

Here is the access into the mountain (please note the gap or the edge below the black shoe).

 

 

Hatch stones and insignia at the lower edge of the birch head suggest that the lower fortification or the construction of "ornamental walls" made use of material that could be found on and around the mountain.