German war cemetery Tolmin

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The German war cemetery Tolmin is located on the Isonzo south of the small Slovenian town of Tolmin . 946 German soldiers of the First World War, who died in the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo , rest in it .

Acts of war

Between 1915 and 1917, twelve battles were fought on the Isonzo between Italy and Austria-Hungary during the First World War . In the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo, which began on October 24, 1917, German and Austro-Hungarian troops succeeded in breaking through the Italian front on the upper reaches of the Isonzo in the Flitsch - Tolmein area and subsequently advancing to the Piave .

The former German field cemetery

investment

The plant was built between 1936 and 1938 based on a design by Robert Tischler . It is kept in the style of a castle of the dead and characteristic of the National Socialist memorial culture and thus a child of its time. The building material was brought in from South Tyrol and the construction was carried out by a Munich-based construction company.

The memorial was built on the site of a former German field cemetery just a few meters from the banks of the Isonzo. A memorial altar has been erected in the chapel above the crypt. The entrance gate is a work of art made from Austrian and Italian gun barrels. Some of the dead were reburied here from the military cemetery in Karfreit in 1938 . 946 war dead from the First World War are buried under a stone slab in the vault. A burial ground is attached to the memorial. Several war dead from the Second World War were buried there in the spring of 1945. The facility is a cultural monument and was initially maintained and maintained by the Slovenian state and since 2001 by the Volksbund. It is the largest German war cemetery on the former Isonzo front in Slovenia.

International understanding

At a commemoration ceremony on May 13, 2017 people from all nations involved in the Isonzo battles were present, including the mayor of Tolmin, the representative of the Ministry of Defense of Slovenia, a representative of the Volksbund, the Austrian ambassador, Hungarian, Slovenian and Austrian military chaplains, cadets of the Hungarian Army and 7th grade youth at a school in Ankaran . In the spirit of international understanding, the European anthem was sung.

Neighboring war cemeteries of the Isonzo battles

  • Italian military cemetery Kobarid (Good Friday)
  • Austro-Hungarian cemetery in Modrejce

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German war cemetery Tolmin (Italian) accessed on March 16, 2018
  2. ^ The German ossuary in Tolmin at www.isonzofront.de ( memento from March 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 8, 2019
  3. ↑ Slovenia. German war cemeteries: Tolmin, p. 7.
  4. ↑ Internet site of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (work of the Volksbund and description of the German war cemetery in Tolmin)
  5. ↑ Stefanie Nebel: River with two colors. 100 years of the battles of the Isonzo. In: "frieden", October 2017, p. 27.
  6. ↑ Commemoration of the fallen on the Isonzo: Shaking hands after 12 Isonzo battles at osk.de.
  7. ↑ Commemoration of the fallen on the Isonzo: Shaking hands after 12 Isonzo battles at osk.de.

Coordinates: 46 ° 10 ′ 30.1 ″  N , 13 ° 43 ′ 56.7 ″  E