German war cemetery Vorwerker Friedhof

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November 23, 1914, burial

The German war graveyard Vorwerker Friedhof is the collective name for the graves of German war dead protected under the Graves Act in the Vorwerker Friedhof on Friedhofsallee in Lübeck .

scope

The German war cemetery Vorwerker Friedhof consists of

  • the resting places for the deceased German soldiers of the First World War in Block 3 and 15
  • the cemetery for deceased German soldiers of the Second World War in Block 12
  • the cemetery for the bomb victims and displaced persons in Block 13.

German war graves of the First World War

War cemetery of the First World War in Lübeck within the Vorwerker cemetery. Block 3 at Chapel 1.

The war management of the IX. Army Corps of Altona was built at the beginning of the war one as Barack hospital designated military hospital , which was Germany's largest hospital in the war, on the castle field . For those who died there, the cemetery authorities had provisionally made the most beautiful place available behind the main chapel of the Vorwerk cemetery , as the construction of a grove was planned.

The war graves of the soldiers of the First World War in Block 3 are marked at Chapel 1 by cushion stones on the edge of the burial field. ( Location ) Further war graves of the soldiers of the First World War are in Block 15. ( Location )

German war graves of World War II

War cemetery from the Second World War within the Vorwerker cemetery. Block 12 near Chapel 1.
Vorwerker Friedhof in Lübeck, Block 13. War cemetery. Grave steles for male and female victims, dates of death around 1941–1945.

The Kriegsgräber of dead German soldiers of World War II are located along a tree-lined path of the fountain in the direction Chapel 1 Fackenburger Landgraben leads. ( Location )

At its end is the memorial for the fallen graduates of the Großheim Realschule , which was moved here from the cemetery of honor .

War cemetery for bomb victims and displaced persons

Vorwerker Friedhof in Lübeck, Block 13. Sign indicating a war cemetery for bomb victims and displaced persons.

The burial site is roughly in the middle of the cemetery on the avenue that connects Chapel 2 and the fountain at Chapel 1. ( Location ) On one of the separate grave fields there are rows of stone crosses on the other with steles with names. There is no information on the fate of the buried on site (as of May 2015)

Other German war cemeteries in Lübeck

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cemetery plan of the Vorwerker cemetery
  2. ↑ In the cemetery of the fallen warriors : In: Lübeckische advertisements . 166th vol., No. 595, edition of November 24, 1914.
  3. ↑ Wilfried Fick: Lübeck cemeteries. Cemetery of honor. Hanseatic City of Lübeck - Department of Planning and Building, Lübeck 2010 ( Lübeck plans and builds 103, ISSN  0933-193X ).
  4. ↑ Gravesite of bomb victims and displaced persons at tracesofwar.com