Hehlrath Cemetery of Honor
The Hehlrath Cemetery of Honor is a military cemetery in Hehlrath , a district of Eschweiler that has been north-west since 1972 in the Aachen city region in North Rhine-Westphalia . There are 190 war dead between the ages of 18 and 20, including 20 unknowns.
Another cemetery of honor in the city area is the Weisweiler cemetery of honor .
history
September and October 1944 as part of the battle in Hürtgenwald in the castle Kinzweiler a dressing station for soldiers from the battles in space Eschweiler Stolberg furnished. A meadow area at the entrance to the neighboring village of Hehlrath and on the same road as the castle was used for burials, which was already used by the troops as a military cemetery.
Immediately after the end of the Second World War , the community of Kinzweiler , to which Hehlrath belonged, took up this burial site. With the sale of so-called “building block cards”, an interest group ensured the expansion into a memorial site by erecting a birch cross for every two fallen and in the middle of the cemetery a memorial made of Schevenhütte slate with name plaques for the fallen from the community. On November 20, 1949, it was inaugurated as one of the first in the Aachen area.
The Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge took care of the war gravesite in 1954 and 1955 and replaced the birch wood crosses with stone crosses, which still exist in this form today.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information board of Eschweiler Helrath. War cemetery on: volksbund-nrw.de of December 11, 2010
Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ' N , 6 ° 14' E