Grove of Honor

Ehrenhain in Geestemünde

Honor grove near Jühnde for the fallen of the First and Second World Wars

An honor grove is a memorial in the traditional shape of a grove . The term is also used for memorial sites that are not in the shape of a grove.

meaning

Groves of honor exist or existed in many countries as part of the sepulchral culture , especially to commemorate war dead. A large number of honor groves were created in the German Empire to commemorate the war dead. At the end of 1914, the garden architect Willy Lange had developed the so-called "German Heldenhain". According to his concept, an oak should be planted for every fallen soldier in a community . His concept was subsequently used throughout Germany.

In the GDR, there were honor groves in almost every district capital in memory of the pioneers of socialism, the victims of National Socialism or the fallen of the Soviet army.

During the deployment of the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan , during which there were over 50 dead and more than 300 wounded Bundeswehr soldiers, honor groves were built in the field camps (such as the grove of honor in the Kunduz field camp ) and some outposts, which are now in the "forest of remembrance" in Potsdam were merged.

Places with honor groves

In order of the respective place name:

Individual evidence

↑ Michael Hütt (ed.): Unhappy the country that needs heroes: Suffering and dying in the war memorials of the First and Second World Wars , (= Studies on Art and Cultural History , Volume 8), Jonas, Marburg 1990, ISBN 978- 3-922561-91-0 , p. 76.
↑ Urban garden art - from the imperial city park to the people's park for everyone , accessed on: July 23, 2017
↑ Ehrenfriedhof Barmen , accessed on: July 23, 2017
↑ Gerold Eppler: Grave Culture in Germany: History of Tombs , published by the Cemetery and Monument Working Group, Museum for Sepulchral Culture , Kassel, Reimer, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-496-02824-6 , p. 210
↑ Marcel Bohnert : Enemies in your own ranks. On the problem of internal perpetrators in Afghanistan , in: if. Journal for Inner Leadership , No. 2, 2014, p. 5ff.

[1] Michael Hütt (ed.): Unhappy the country that needs heroes: Suffering and dying in the war memorials of the First and Second World Wars , (= Studies on Art and Cultural History , Volume 8), Jonas, Marburg 1990, ISBN 978- 3-922561-91-0 , p. 76.

[2] Urban garden art - from the imperial city park to the people's park for everyone , accessed on: July 23, 2017

[3] Ehrenfriedhof Barmen , accessed on: July 23, 2017

[4] Gerold Eppler: Grave Culture in Germany: History of Tombs , published by the Cemetery and Monument Working Group, Museum for Sepulchral Culture , Kassel, Reimer, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-496-02824-6 , p. 210

[5] Marcel Bohnert : Enemies in your own ranks. On the problem of internal perpetrators in Afghanistan , in: if. Journal for Inner Leadership , No. 2, 2014, p. 5ff.