Langeoog dune cemetery
The Dünenfriedhof is a cemetery on the German North Sea island of Langeoog .
location
The Langeoog dune cemetery is located northeast of the island village right next to the Sonnenhof at the foot of the Heerenhus dunes . The cemetery complex was built in 1944 according to plans by a Worpswede garden architect. From 1960, it was given its current appearance by Jürgen Baron von Schilling . The grave of the singer Lale Andersen , who died in 1972, is also located in the dune cemetery and is probably the greatest tourist attraction in this location.
Memorials
The Langeoog Dune Cemetery is home to three memorials:
- On the part of the cemetery area known as the Russian Cemetery, a prisoner-of-war grave site built by the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge in 1953 commemorates the 113 Soviet prisoners of war who were brought to the island from August 1941 to build a new air force base during the Second World War and who perished due to the inhuman treatment. The mass grave on the edge of the dune cemetery is now marked by six sandstone steles bearing the names and dates of the deaths of the 113 dead.
- The Baltic memorial , built by the German-Baltic Landsmannschaft, commemorates the 326 Baltic Germans who died on the island, who were evacuated from a nursing home in Schwetz an der Weichsel in West Prussia in February 1945 and who were taken to Langeoog after a dramatic escape. Many of them are buried in a separate section in the dune cemetery.
- There is also a memorial in the form of two memorial steles, which are supposed to symbolize a bridge between these two groups.
Web links
Commons : Dünenfriedhof Langeoog - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Planting of Langeoog's Dune Cemetery (VfcG)
- ↑ Haus Meedland: Who Forgets the Dead , accessed on September 28, 2019
- ^ The path of fate of the residents of the Baltenheim in Schwetz , accessed on January 8, 2013
Coordinates: 53 ° 45 ′ 12 ″ N , 7 ° 29 ′ 22 ″ E