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North Rhine-Westphalia

Cologne District

Bergisches Land

Wolfgang Kolbe Trail Memorial

North Rhine-Westphalia

Cologne District

Bergisches Land

Wolfgang Kolbe Trail Memorial

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Wolfgang Kolbe Trail Memorial

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Location: Bergisches Land, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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yves klein

March 7, 2025

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Kolbe founded an ecological collection of the beetles of North Rhine-Westphalia. But in 2008, "his" museum in Wuppertal was dissolved. Now the beetle collection is in Bonn at the Museum König: t1p.de/hxjek

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

November 23, 2020

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"... Wolfgang Kolbe (* 24 March 1929 in Putzar near Anklam in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania; † 18 March 2000 in Wuppertal) was a German entomologist specialising in beetles.

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HeideLuchs

March 4, 2025

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The marking of the Kolbeweg looks like a tick. It was only when I saw the memorial stone with the stag beetle that it gradually dawned on me that it was supposed to represent a beetle. If only they had at least used a stencil with a recognizable beetle! Honoring the researcher might be worth all that effort.

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