Ehrenfriedhof (disambiguation)

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Ehrenfriedhof is the name for a grave for honoring certain people, see Ehrengrab .

Special cemeteries of honor :

  • Military cemetery (also: Ehrenfriedhof , outdated: Gefallenenfriedhof ), a grave where soldiers who died during a war are buried

Well-known cemeteries of honor :

  • Ehrenfriedhof (Erlangen) , a burial place for German soldiers who died of wounds or illnesses in Erlangen
  • Ehrenfriedhof (Heilbronn) in the area of ​​the independent city of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg, a grave complex for the around 6,500 victims of the air raid on Heilbronn on December 4, 1944
  • Ehrenfriedhof (Lübeck) , a central memorial in Lübeck for the civil and military victims of both world wars
  • Ehrenfriedhof (Wilhelmshaven) is located on the edge of the Rüstringen city park and was laid out between 1912 and 1914 as a burial place for the naval garrison
  • Barmen cemetery of honor , one of two cemeteries of honor in the city of Wuppertal, 1225 German and several foreign dead from both world wars rest on it
  • Ehrenfriedhof Elberfeld , on the flank of the Kiesberg below the Königshöhe, is one of two honorary cemeteries in the city of Wuppertal, where 567 soldiers from the First World War rest
  • Ehrenfriedhof Eversberg (also: Eversberg war cemetery ), a military cemetery on the B 55 near the Eversberg district of Meschede between Meschede and Warstein
  • Cemetery of honor for the dead of the Cap Arcona and Thielbek catastrophe near Haffkrug-Gronenberg-Neukoppel (municipality of Scharbeutz, Ostholstein district, Schleswig-Holstein), a cemetery of honor where 1,128 victims of the sinking of the Cap Arcona and Thielbek are buried on May 3, 1945 are
  • Ehrenfriedhof Hehlrath , a military cemetery in Hehlrath, a north-western district of Eschweiler since 1972, Aachen city region, North Rhine-Westphalia, here are 190 war dead between the ages of 18 and 20, including 20 unknowns
  • Ehrenfriedhof Heidelberg , above the southern part of Heidelberg at a height of about 295 meters on the so-called ant hump above the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof, the complex was laid out from 1933 to 1935 as a military cemetery to accommodate more than 500 reburied fallen soldiers from the First World War
  • Ehrenfriedhof Weisweiler or Ehrenfriedhof Alte Burg , a military cemetery within the remains of the wall of Weisweiler Castle in Weisweiler, an eastern district of Eschweiler since 1972, Aachen region, North Rhine-Westphalia.
  • Hürtgen war cemetery
  • Vossenack war cemetery

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