German war cemetery on the Georgenberg

The German war cemetery on the Georgenberg is part of an area monument in Spremberg in the Brandenburg district of Spree-Neisse .

Background and story

The southern Brandenburg area is affected by the devastation due to the mining of lignite . In addition to the demolition of villages, areas on which war dead from World War II are buried are also being destroyed. In some cases, however, bones are also discovered that come to light during the recovery of ammunition in preparation for the Welzow-Süd opencast mine in the search for duds . For this reason, a reburial cemetery was built on the Georgenberg in 1995, which included the 174 existing war cemeteries from World War I and World War II . The first reburial took place on October 24, 1995 and concerned a fallen German pilot who was recovered from his plane wreck near Wolkenberg . By June 2001 a total of 696 German war dead found their final resting place there.

construction

Box III. 1st half

Entering the grounds of the Cherry Avenue, so the visitor initially opened one with deciduous trees planted, central visual axis, an unadorned at the end of the cross from concrete stands. The individual fields can be reached from the visual axis via smaller paths. They are numbered counterclockwise in the following row: Field Ia, Field Ib, Field II, Field III.-1 Half, Field III.-2 Half and Field IV. Fields V and VI are further east and have their own Access accessible.

The war cemetery consists of several fields that were occupied at different times:

Field Ia: 174 war graves with dead from the First and Second World Wars and the reburied dead from 1995
Field Ib: 108 war dead from the devastated Kausche district of the city of Drebkau
Field II: 115 war dead who were reburied from the Kausche cemetery in 1996
Box III-1. Half: Another 89 war dead from the Kausche cemetery, who were reburied between 1997 and 2005. Other dead come from Steinitz , Neupetershain , Geisendorf , Lindchen , Ressen and Bademeusel
Box III-2. Half: 86 war dead who were reburied from 1999 to 2005 from the aforementioned districts and towns
Field IV: 88 war dead who from 1997 to 2001 from Albertinenaue , Bahnsdorf , Bloischdorf , Cottbus , Gallinchen , Gosda , United Gastrose , United Luja , Horno , Jerischke , Kiekebusch , Kolkwitz , Lauchhammer , Lieskau , Pusack , Reuthen , Roggosen and Sielow by Spremberg were reburied
Field V: 36 war dead who were reburied from 2001 to 2010 from the following districts: Kolkwitz, Forst (Lausitz) , Cottbus, Bademeusel, Albertinenaue, Horno, Bahnsdorf, Gallinchen

Field VI is not occupied in 2014. In the north-western part there are several civil hereditary burial sites .

Web links

Commons : German war cemetery on the Georgenberg - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Susanne Rost: After more than 50 years: Laubag finds many bones of dead soldiers Title in plain text . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 16, 1999, accessed on July 7, 2014.

51.573698 14.387581Coordinates: 51 ° 34'25.3 " N , 14 ° 23'15.3" E

[1] Susanne Rost: After more than 50 years: Laubag finds many bones of dead soldiers Title in plain text . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 16, 1999, accessed on July 7, 2014.