German war cemetery at Sebesh
The German war cemetery Sebesh is 150 kilometers south of the Oblast capital Pskow and a few kilometers northeast of Sebesh and is a collective cemetery for German soldiers killed in the Second World War from the advance of 1941 and the 1944 retreat in Russia in the Pskow - Velikije Luki - Opotschka - Newel area with a Capacity of 40,000 graves.
location
From the regional town of Pskow via Opotschka in the direction of Sebesh, about 6 km before Sebesh, on the northern edge of the Michelevschina settlement, directly on the Sebesh-Opotschka road.
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The cemetery was inaugurated on September 8, 2007. From a parking lot it goes through a covered entrance along a granite-paved path. This leads to a metal high cross. There is a pond in the area. The grave blocks are marked with symbol cross groups. There are natural stone steles on the grave blocks. On these, the names of the 11,205 (as of 2012) identified dead are listed alphabetically. The dead that cannot be recovered are listed in a memorial name book. By the end of 2012, 29,600 dead had been buried.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (work of the Volksbund and description of the war cemetery in Sebesh)
- ↑ Website of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (work of the Volksbund and description of the war cemetery in Sebesh)
Coordinates: 56 ° 18 ′ 7.1 ″ N , 28 ° 31 ′ 6.1 ″ E