Lahna Cemetery of Honor
At the memorial cemetery Lahna in Łyna (dt. Lahna ) 56 soldiers of the German Army and 89 soldiers rest of the Russian army.
On August 23, 1914, two companies of the Jäger Battalion "Graf Yorck von Wartenburg" (East Prussian) No. 1 were in advanced positions in Lahna and the surrounding area . The five-hour battle at Orlau - Lahna - Frankenau , which was part of the battle of Tannenberg , broke out around the village . Eventually the hunters had to vacate the village and fought back to the main position.
The Lahna Cemetery of Honor consists of an enclosure wall made of boulders. The graves are bordered with curbs and marked with a pillow stone. Repair work was last carried out in 1993.
Web links
- Ehrenfriedhof Lahna on www.weltkriegsopfer.de
- Lahna Cemetery of Honor with historical and current photos and a list of 18 dead known by name (website in Polish)
- The battle near Lahna and Orlau on www.tannenberg1914.de
- Jäger-Bataillon Graf Yorck von Wartenburg (East Prussian) No. 1 on GenWiki
literature
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn : August fourteen. Luchterhand, Neuwied 1973.
- Markus Pöhlmann : Death in Masuria: Tannenberg, 23rd to 31st August 1914 . In: Stig Förster, Markus Pöhlmann and Dierk Walter (eds.): Battles of world history. From Salamis to Sinai. CH Beck, Munich ³2002, pp. 279-293. ISBN 978-3-406-48097-3
- Barbara Tuchman: August 1914 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-596-15395-6
Coordinates: 53 ° 26 ′ 25.8 " N , 20 ° 24 ′ 39.2" E