102 soldiers and civilians between the ages of 2 and 37 rest in the Lucherberg Honorary Cemetery for the victims of World War II. The location of the war cemetery here on the hill was determined purely by chance. During the fighting for Stolberg in September 1944, a German planning unit had to transport ammunition from Lucherberg to Stolberg. They were bringing back wounded and killed soldiers from the front. The wounded were treated at the main dressing center in Lucherberg and the dead were buried on a meadow slope. The pioneers laid terraces on the slope, built dry stone walls in the embankment, built a stone staircase and surrounded the place with a wall.
Three young Polish and Ukrainian children died between October 1943 and July 1944. They had come to Frenz with their parents to perform forced labor. In 1944, a 34-year-old Pole from the Lamersdorf Papler factory and a 30-year-old forced laborer from Frenz Castle died. These five dead were ceremonially reburied from the Frenz cemetery to the Lucherberg War Cemetery in 2012. A new joint memorial stone marks their resting place.
On Sept. 28, 1944, 36 members of the Hitlerjugend were killed in an air raid on the Haus Hardt labor camp, on the site of today's Nõrvenich Air Base. Among the dead were four 15- to 18-year-olds from Lucherberg and Luchem; they rest today directly in front of the High Cross.
After the return of the first Lucherbergers after the evacuation in the spring of 1945, the fallen soldiers still scattered around the village were recovered and buried here with their comrades.
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