Ehrenfriedhof (Goslar)
The German Cemetery of Honor in the city of Goslar is a military cemetery within the Old Cemetery in the district town of Goslar in Lower Saxony .
Geographical location
In front of the gates of the city of Goslar, west of the Chaussee leading to Hildesheim (later the Reich and Bundesstrasse), a new municipal cemetery was built around 1826, which since 1883 has been bordered in the south-west by the Hildesheim – Goslar railway line and what is now called Am Friedhof .
history
In the middle of the municipal cemetery, an approx. 1000 m² cemetery of honor for the fallen soldiers from Goslar was created after the First World War, which includes around 80 graves. After the Second World War, this cemetery of honor was expanded by approx. 3000 m² for soldiers who had fallen or died in the city's hospitals and civilians who died in the bombing. For this purpose, the grave sites were provided with the symbolic crosses typical of soldiers' graves, which are made here from sandstone from the Sudmerberg .
The older part of the cemetery received additional memorial stones made of dolomite . Both parts of the cemetery are separated by a broad middle ground.
In the north of the cemetery there is a separate grove of honor with a sarcophagus by Johann Daniel Thulesius .
The ceremonial consecration of the enlarged cemetery of honor took place on June 12, 1955. In 2004, for reasons of maintenance costs and design, the entire facility was under the patronage of Goslar's Lord Mayor Otmar Hesse under the project management of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. fundamentally renovated. The work lasted from August 23rd to October 21st, 2004. On the following November 10th, the cemetery of honor was handed over to the town of Goslar by the Volksbund.
In addition to the German Cemetery of Honor, there is also a burial site for Eastern European forced laborers and prisoners of war at the Old Cemetery.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 54 ′ 55.3 " N , 10 ° 24 ′ 54.6" E