Waplitz Cemetery of Honor
433 soldiers of the German and 203 soldiers of the Russian army rest in the military cemetery in Waplitz ( Waplewo in Polish ). They are all dead in the battle of Waplitz on August 28, 1914, an event at the Battle of Tannenberg . There the 41st Division was surprised by the enemy artillery near the bridge over the Maranse in a suddenly lightening fog.
place
The facility is located on the main road from Warsaw to Gdansk, 11 km before Hohenstein ( Olsztynek in Polish ) on the left-hand side and is one of the cemeteries that were created after the Battle of Tannenberg.
The approximately 2 hectare cemetery fell into disrepair after the Second World War . Only the 8 meter high concrete high cross and the memorial square have been preserved. The Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge organized some conservation measures together with the Bundeswehr .
literature
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn : August fourteen. Translated by Swetlana Geier. Luchterhand (= Luchterhand Collection, Vol. 183), Darmstadt and Neuwied 1974, ISBN 3-472-61183-9 , pp. 317-318.
- Markus Pöhlmann : Death in Masuria: Tannenberg, 23rd to 31st August 1914. In: Stig Förster, Markus Pöhlmann, Dierk Walter (eds.): Battles of world history. From Salamis to Sinai. 3. Edition. CH Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-48097-7 , pp. 279-293.
- Barbara Tuchman : August 1914. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-596-15395-6 ( Fischer 15395).
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Coordinates: 53 ° 29 ′ 48.2 " N , 20 ° 18 ′ 45.7" E