Grove of honor in the Kunduz military camp
The memorial grove in Kunduz was until October 2013 Memorial of the Bundeswehr for the fallen and deceased soldiers during the ISAF mission as part of the war in Afghanistan .
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The grove of honor was located within the former military camp Kunduz on the edge of the northern Afghan provincial capital Kunduz.
It stood within an approximately 25 × 20 meter gravel yard and consisted of an arched wall and a memorial stone in front of it , which was provided with the national emblem of the Bundeswehr, the stylized iron cross . The 20 memorial plaques of soldiers who fell and died in action were attached to the wall. The names and first names of the dead were on the memorial plaques.
The honor grove also included ten flagpoles . The seven flags of the nations based in Camp Kunduz, the NATO flag , the Afghanistan flag and the ISAF flag were hoisted on the masts . The German flagpole was the fifth from the left.
New memorial plaques were unveiled after the death of soldiers during a memorial ceremony at the Ehrenhain while the flag of the Federal Republic was at half-mast .
Reconstruction in Germany
The grove of honor was dismantled in October 2013 shortly before the camp was handed over to the Afghan army, transferred to Germany and reconstructed in a reduced form in the Forest of Remembrance in Schwielowsee along with other groves of honor that were created during the Bundeswehr's missions abroad. It now has an area of approx. 10 × 10 meters and is accessible to everyone.
Well-known visitors to the honor groves
- Horst Köhler , Federal President
- Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg , Minister of Defense
- Guido Westerwelle , Foreign Minister
- Hellmut Königshaus , Commissioner for the Armed Forces
- Angela Merkel , Federal Chancellor
See also
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Individual evidence
- ↑ For details on this, the Federal Ministry of Defense, Der Wald der Demokratie, Berlin 2015, p. 58
- ↑ Thorsten Jungholt: Foreign Minister Westerwelle visits Bundeswehr soldiers in Kundus: “What's your name, please, where are you from?” Die Welt , January 10, 2011, accessed on January 10, 2011 : “With a view of the Ehrenhain, he added : “It goes to the heart when people die who protect our values on our behalf. Here women and men hold their heads for freedom and security for all of us. That is often not recognized enough. "
- ↑ Hellmut Königshaus with the troops in Afghanistan, August 2010 ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 36 ° 40 ′ 23.7 " N , 68 ° 53 ′ 59.1" E