Dahner Ehrenfriedhof
| Dahner Ehrenfriedhof | ||
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 Cross in the military cemetery |
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| place | Dahn | |
| architect | Daniel Thulesius | |
| Architectural style | Military cemetery | |
| Construction year | 1950-1952 | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 8 '44.8 " N , 7 ° 47' 13.5" E | |
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The Dahner Ehrenfriedhof is a military cemetery in Dahn in Rhineland-Palatinate . It was inaugurated on September 14, 1952 with the associated renovated St. Michaels Chapel after around two years of construction. The facility was planned by the Braunschweig architecture professor Daniel Thulesius .
history
The decision in favor of this facility was made after the law on the preservation of the graves of victims of war and tyranny ( Graves Act ) was passed by the German Bundestag in 1952 . The domestic war cemeteries were placed in the care of the respective communities.
A total of 2412 dead are buried in the cemetery, who fell in the fighting in the Palatinate and in the Vosges Mountains in May 1940 and, above all, at Operation Nordwind between December 1944 and the end of the war in May 1945. Most of the dead were members of the Wehrmacht who came from Germany and Austria as well as the previously occupied territories in Czechoslovakia , Poland and Romania . Many belonged to the 262nd Infantry Division , which came mainly from Austria and was named "Steffel Division" after St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna . Their survivors hold regular commemorations to this day. A stone from St. Stephen's Cathedral, which was walled up in the chapel, testifies to this.
After the decision to build a war cemetery in Dahn , soldiers who had fallen from over 300 communities throughout the Southwest Palatinate were reburied in the Dahn Cemetery of Honor. On each grave a plaque gives information about the name, date of birth and death as well as the number of the grave. However, the tracing service was only able to identify 150 of the reburied dead, 300 other dead remained unidentified. Most of the dead were killed in the battle for the Maimont near Petersbächel . A peace cross has been on the mountain since 1950 . Hans Graf von Sponeck is also buried in the cemetery.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth: Announcement of the new version of the Graves Act of January 29, 1993 ( Memento of July 20, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) ( PDF , 568 kB), [28. October 2007].
- ↑ The battle for the Maimont ( Memento from June 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- The cemetery of honor on the homepage of the city of Dahn
- The battle for the Maimont ( Memento from June 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )