Insterburg German War Cemetery

Mass grave that has not yet been closed at the Insterburg military cemetery, newly created by the VDK . The small wooden coffins with the remains of German soldiers are numbered, starting with “2035” on the left (photo from 1999).

The German military cemetery Insterburg is located on the outskirts of Chernyakhovsk in the Kaliningrad Oblast ( Russia ), the former Insterburg in northeastern East Prussia , and is the final resting place of around 9,000 German soldiers who died in the First and Second World Wars .

location

Königsberg / Kaliningrad towards Kiev. In Cernjachowsk / Insterburg A 197 towards Krylovo. At the end of Cernyakhovsk, directly on the left.

Emergence

After the end of the First World War, 556 German, 5 Romanian and 165 Russian soldiers were buried in the civil cemetery of Insterburg.

From 1942 to 1948 an additional 2,100 soldiers were buried there. The original cemetery was expanded from 17,000 to 27,000 m ² in the early 1990s , as the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (VDK) began to create a large collective cemetery there for Germans who had fallen in the eastern part of East Prussia. So far, the remains of 8701 fallen soldiers, who were recovered from a wide area, have been transferred to the new war cemetery . The names of the fallen are recorded on steles.

The work of the VDK in this part of the former East Prussia has not yet been completed.