German war cemetery Hamburg-Ohlsdorf

German war cemetery Hamburg-Ohlsdorf
Country:	Germany
Region:	Hamburg
Place:	Ohlsdorf cemetery
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The German War Cemetery Hamburg-Ohlsdorf is located within the Ohlsdorf Cemetery , which is in the Ohlsdorf district of the city of Hamburg in Germany. The graves of the German soldiers are laid out in the middle of the cemetery in a west-east direction over a length of half a kilometer in three areas.

Three burial grounds

Ida-Ehre-Allee

The German war cemeteries of the First World War and the Second World War are adjacent. These war graves are located south of Chapel 9. From west to east: The area of ​​the German war graves of the First World War and the war graves from 1939 is on Ida-Ehre-Allee (formerly Krieger-Ehrenallee), and the area of ​​German war graves on the adjoining Mittelallee of the Second World War from March 1942. This is followed by the circular building of the memorial to the fallen soldiers of the Second World War in the middle of Linnestrasse. On the other side of the street, the area of ​​the German war graves of the Second World War continues with the graves of the fallen from November 1944.

On these war grave areas there are not only soldiers' graves, but also “refugees and other civilians, concentration camp prisoners, those executed in the Hamburg remand prison, deserters convicted by the Nazi military justice, Jewish Soviet prisoners of war and children of forced laborers”.

Area: German war graves from World War I and from 1939

War graves from the First World War in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf

German war cemetery Hamburg-Ohlsdorf. Area: war graves from World War I, memorial plaque

German war cemetery Hamburg-Ohlsdorf. Area: war graves from World War I, further rows of graves

Gravestone for soldiers who died in Hamburg hospitals during the Franco-Prussian War

More than 3,400 fallen soldiers from the First World War rest here ( Lage ). They died in the hospital or were put in bed at the request of relatives from abroad. Several hundred war-damaged soldiers who later died of their injuries were also buried from 1918 to 1923. The design of the burial ground for the fallen was developed in a competition. From 1924, the graves were uniformly marked by grave steles of the same height made of Oberkirchen sand, which only differ from one another in the head part. The names of the fallen are accessible in a list of names.

In the northern part of the grave field of the First World War, 263 English, French, Italian and Russian prisoners of war who died are also buried.

From September 1939, the fallen soldiers of the Second World War were buried on the edge in the west of the area and next to the graves of the prisoners of war of the First World War.

At the fork in Mittel- and Ida-Ehre-Allee, a collective grave was set up for victims from scattered individual graves in the 1950s and 1960s. Foreign victims and dead children of forced laborers were also buried here.

The German soldier who died in Hamburg hospitals in 1870 is commemorated on a memorial stone.

Area: German war graves from March 1942

German war cemetery Hamburg-Ohlsdorf. Area: war graves from March 1942

Fallen soldiers from the Second World War rest here. These are German soldiers' graves from March 1942 ( Lage ). The graves are marked by lying stones, the grave field by three standing stone crosses. The names of some soldiers were digitally recorded.

Memorial: Rotunda for the fallen of the Second World War

German war cemetery Hamburg-Ohlsdorf. Area: war graves from March 1942. Gravestones of all victims, near the memorial

In the middle of Linnestrasse is the memorial for the fallen in World War II ( Lage ). Inside it contains wall drawings by Franz Mikorey (sculptor) . To the right and left of Linnestrasse, and adjacent to the area of ​​the soldiers' graves from the Second World War, the graves of bomb victims, executed or deceased prisoners of justice, concentration camp inmates and refugees from scattered individual locations in the cemetery were reburied in collective graves until the 1960s.

Area: German war graves from November 1944

German war cemetery Hamburg-Ohlsdorf. Area: war graves from November 1944

To the east of the rotunda, another grave area was laid out for the fallen from November 1944 and from 1945 with simpler gravestones ( location ).

Other war cemeteries

There are also German war graves from the First and Second World Wars in the other Hamburg cemeteries.

• Altona war cemetery : In the northern part of the Altona cemetery there are graves of war dead around a high cross.
• New Bergedorf Cemetery : Near Chapel 1 there are graves of war dead.
• New Harburg Cemetery: In the eastern part of the cemetery on the hilltop there are 239 soldiers' graves from the First and 241 from the Second World War.
• Ilandkoppel Jewish Cemetery : Here are 88 individual graves of German soldiers from the First World War.
• List of war cemeteries

Web links

Commons : Deutsche Kriegsgräberstätte Hamburg-Ohlsdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lars Skowronski: Graves of the First and Second World War in the Hamburg-Ohlsdorf cemetery: insight into the work of an initiative. In: Ohlsdorf - magazine for mourning culture, issue no. 133, II, 2016 - May 2016

Movies

• hamburg cemetery ohlsdorf german soldiers graves first world war remix on YouTube
• hamburg cemetery ohlsdorf german soldiers graves remix (Second World War) on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hamburg-Ohlsdorf cemetery with map ( memento of the original from September 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge: Graves of the First and Second World Wars in the Ohlsdorf cemetery. Not only soldiers are buried on the grave field "German soldiers". Leaflet approx. 2017.
3. ↑ Senate document 20/7646 on the memory of all victims
4. ↑ René Senenko: Monument to the fallen at the Ohlsdorf military cemetery. At stadtteilgeschichten.net of the Willy Bredel Society
5. ^ Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V., Hamburg regional association: Ohlsdorf cemetery
6. ↑ Online project memorials for the fallen: Hamburg-Ohlsdorf (main cemetery), war graves 1st World War: Names of the fallen
7. ↑ Lars Skowronski: Graves of the First and Second World War in the Hamburg-Ohlsdorf cemetery: Insight into the work of an initiative. In: Ohlsdorf - magazine for mourning culture, issue no. 133, II, 2016 - May 2016
8. ↑ Helmut Schoenfeld: The entire system of the Ohlsdorf grave field First World War. In: Ohlsdorf - Journal for Trauerkultur No. 119, IV, 2012 - November 2012
9. ^ Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V., Hamburg regional association: Ohlsdorf cemetery
10. ^ List of names in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf cemetery (German war graves from 1939 to 1945)
11. ^ Hamburg-Ohlsdorf (cemetery of honor 2nd World War). List of names in the online project Memorial Monuments
12. ↑ René Senenko: Monument to the fallen at the Ohlsdorf military cemetery
13. ↑ Lars Skowronski: Graves of the First and Second World War in the Hamburg-Ohlsdorf cemetery: Insight into the work of an initiative. In: Ohlsdorf - magazine for mourning culture, issue no. 133, II, 2016 - May 2016
14. ↑ Jörg Schilling: Soldiers Memorial Hall Friedhof Ohlsdorf (Hamburg construction booklet 17), Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-944405-26-1 .
15. ↑ War graves in Hamburg. Compilation of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V., Hamburg regional association

Coordinates: 53 ° 37 ′ 29.7 "  N , 10 ° 3 ′ 30.6"  E