German war cemetery Cannock Chase

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German war cemetery Cannock Chase

The German war cemetery at Cannock Chase is located in Staffordshire in the Midlands of England . It is a collective cemetery for 2,143 dead from the First World War and 2,797 dead from the Second World War .

location

From Cannock the A34 leads towards Stafford . After three miles the road branches off to Rugeley . After a short distance, the Commonwealth Cemetery Cannock Chase War Cemetery is first passed on the small Camp Road . Only then is the Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery (German war cemetery Cannock Chase).

The dead

German war cemetery Cannock Chase: graves of Zeppelin crews. The zeppelins were shot down over England during the First World War
German war cemetery Cannock Chase: German soldiers killed in the First and Second World Wars

The war cemetery is a collective cemetery for the war dead of the First and Second World Wars in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. They died in prisoner-of-war and internment camps, were rescued from crashed fighter planes or were washed up dead on the coast. Airship crews who died during the First World War are buried here.

The cemetery

German war cemetery Cannock Chase: bronze sculpture of a fallen man by Hans Wimmer

A depression through the site separates the dead from the First and Second World Wars. The cemetery has a park-like character with trees, daffodils in spring and heather in autumn. On steles made of hard shell limestone, two names each for the graves are recorded on the front and back. From the access road and a forecourt, the path leads to the visitor room. From there via the covered corridor to the hall. In it rests a bronze sculpture of a fallen man by Hans Wimmer on a stone plinth.

German-English international understanding

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1967 war cemetery, the chairman of the Staffordshire County Council, representatives of the counties, mayors, the state chairman of the Volksbund in Bremen, the air force attaché of the German embassy in London and relatives of the dead came together to consider the cemetery as a location to appreciate peace, friendship and international understanding.

Adjacent Commonwealth Cannock Chase War Cemetery

The neighboring Cannock Chase War Cemetery was laid out by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). During the First World War 97 dead from the camp of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade, but also 228 German dead from the hospital for prisoners of war, were buried here. 29 dead from the Second World War rest here.

See also

Web links

Commons : Cannock Chase German War Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (work of the Volksbund and description of the German war cemetery Cannock Chase)
  2. ↑ (en) Commonwealth Cannock Chase War Cemetery
  3. ↑ (en) CWGC: Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery
  4. ^ Website of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (work of the Volksbund and description of the German war cemetery Cannock Chase)
  5. ↑ Isa Nolle: Special place of friendship. 50 years of the Cannock Chase war cemetery in England. In: “frieden”, October 2017, pp. 20–21.
  6. ↑ (en) Commonwealth Cannock Chase War Cemetery
  7. ^ Website of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (work of the Volksbund and description of the German war cemetery Cannock Chase)

Coordinates: 52 ° 44 ′ 20.8 "  N , 2 ° 1 ′ 21.3"  W.