German war cemetery Bourdon
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 German war cemetery Bourdon (Cimetière militaire allemand de Bourdon) |
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| Country: | France |
| Region: | Picardy |
| Place: | Bourdon (Somme) |
| Inauguration: | September 16, 1967 |
The German war cemetery Bourdon is in the French Picardy , Somme department , 18.5 kilometers northwest of Amiens . 22,216 soldiers from the Second World War are buried on the war cemetery.
layout
The German war cemetery in Bourdon was designed by Paul Schmitthenner . A ten meter high round building with a diameter of twelve meters houses the marble sculpture The Mother of Gerhard Marcks . The path leads from the rotunda to the Hochkreuz . There are 44 blocks with graves around the path. The grave crosses are made of limestone . There are three names on each side of a grave cross.
War dead
The cemetery is a collective cemetery for the German war dead from the Somme, Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments . Here rest the German soldiers who were killed in the advance towards the English Channel coast in May 1940 and those who were killed in the retreat from France in late August / early September 1944. The German soldiers who died in captivity were also buried here.
German-French friendship
The Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge maintains the war graves and exchanges ideas with the local council. A member of the Franco-German Association of War Children helps with repairs and maintenance. V. (French Amicale Nationale des Enfants de la Guerre , ANEG), which represents the interests of the children of the occupation . German and French youth and young French soldiers participate in the spirit of Franco-German friendship . In the interests of international understanding, an English family of historians and a Franco-German mourners, including the mayor of Bourdon, took part in the funeral of a German fighter pilot who was only recovered in 2006.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bild The mother of Gerhard Marcks. German war cemetery Bourdon
- ^ Internet site of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge for Bourdon
- ^ Internet site of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge for Bourdon
- ↑ ANEG: German cemeteries in France - Bourdon 80 ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Suzanne Krause: The end of "shame" (in French: La fin de la "honte". ) In: Deutschlandfunk from March 8, 2011, 9:10 am
- ↑ (fr) Somme aviation 39-45: Inhumation du Lieutenant Hans Joachim Rimarski
Web links
- Website of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge for Bourdon
- (en) German war cemetery Bourdon at webmatters.net
Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 11 ″ N , 2 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ E