Eversberg Cemetery of Honor
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 German War Cemetery Eversberg (Ehrenfriedhof Eversberg) |
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| Country: | Germany |
| Region: | Sauerland |
| Place: | Meschede , Eversberg |
| Inauguration: | July 9, 1961 |
The Eversberg Ehrenfriedhof, also known as the Eversberg war cemetery, is a military cemetery on the B 55 near the Eversberg district of Meschede between Meschede and Warstein. A total of 928 fallen soldiers from the Second World War are buried here.
Fighting
Most of the soldiers perished in March / April 1945 during the Ruhrkessel battle under the leadership of Walter Models in the eastern part of the Ruhrkessel and were buried widely in the Sauerland - partly in communal and church cemeteries, but also in gardens, fields, dirt roads and ditches .
Cemetery architecture
Plans to relocate the graves to Bödefeld , Winkhausen or the Klausenberg , for example , were abandoned due to the unsuitable soil quality. With an investment of 240,000 DM, construction work began on the site in Eversberg in 1958. According to plans by the Sauerland artist Anneliese Schmidt-Elk , a chapel named Mourning and Consolation was built from Rüthener sandstone . The grave crosses are made from Anröchter dolomite. Two dead are assigned to each cross. The cemetery was inaugurated on July 9, 1961. The city of Meschede looks after the war cemetery.
The dead
The dead were reburied from the then Meschede district (709 people), from the Arnsberg district (115 people), from the Brilon district (73 people), from the Altena district (15 people) and from the Lippstadt district (four people). Victims of the bombing and forced laborers from the time of National Socialism are also buried here.
“The war dead resting in the cemetery come from all parts of Germany; from East Prussia to the Rhineland, from Schleswig-Holstein to Bavaria and Austria. "
Reminder for Peace
The graves remind of the many individual fates and are a reminder for peace. In 2012, pupils from the municipal secondary school in Meschede discussed the topic of wartime, spoke to contemporary witnesses and took part in the commemoration ceremony for the reburial of nine dead from the Second World War in the Eversberg war cemetery.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge for the Meschede-Eversberg war gravesite
- ↑ Eversberger Ehrenfriedhof. Description on meschede.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Jürgen Kortmann: The value of life. Report in Westfalenpost.
Web links
- Eversdorfer Ehrenfriedhof. Description on meschede.de
- Website of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge for the Meschede-Eversberg war gravesite
- Eversberg war cemetery at the Volksbund Nordrhein-Westfalen
Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 3.6 ″ N , 8 ° 17 ′ 56.3 ″ E