NRW: Dog digs in the park – and digs up a creepy find
Created: 06/04/2022, 13:55
By: Benjamin Stroka
A dog dug up this jawbone in a park in Siegburg.
© Public Order Office of the City of Siegburg
In Siegburg in North Rhine-Westphalia, a dog dug up a jawbone while digging in a park.
At the sight of the creepy find, walkers called the regulatory office.
Siegburg – A mysterious and creepy find in a park in Siegburg (Rhein-Sieg district) is now even a case for the police.
A dog dug in the ground there on June 1 and dug up a jawbone.
Siegburg: dog digs up jawbones in the park
Siegburg | |
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Circle: | Rhein-Sieg district |
Resident: | approx. 39,700 |
The four-legged friend made the find in the park on Johannesstrasse in Siegburg, as reported by 24RHEIN.
Concerned walkers then reported the jawbone, on which teeth are still visible, to the city of Siegburg.
The public order office immediately moved to take a closer look at the find.
Siegburg: Bone discovery in the park – the police are examining the jaw bones
The special feature of the park on Johannesstraße: Up to the end of the last millennium, today's park was a cemetery.
"The non-listed graves were cleared," explains the city of Siegburg.
Therefore, there is a high probability that the jawbone belongs to an old burial site.
However, the police were involved to be on the safe side.
Forensic investigators are now to examine the jawbone forensically.
Siegburg: Former cemetery on Johannesstrasse
Where there is now a popular park on Johannesstraße, there was still a cemetery in Siegburg until the end of the last millennium.
Still clearly recognizable today thanks to the Nepomuk chapel and some listed graves.
The cemetery has a long history.
In 1807, Katharina Reuter, who was only four years old at the time, was the first to be buried there.
Later, the long-term mayor Jakob Spilles (1840-1899), head of the insane asylum and psychiatric pioneer Maximilian Jacobi (1775-1858) and Ernestine Humperdinck (1856-1873), sister of the composer Engelbert Humperdinck, also found their last resting place there.
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