Estonian war cemetery in Lübeck

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Estonian war cemetery

The Estonian military cemetery on the Vorwerker cemetery of independent Hanseatic city of Lübeck is an on initiative and costs of the Estonian national community -funded war cemetery for the reminder to the Schleswig-Holstein exile after the Second World War who died Estonians from the civilians . The tombs law guaranteed by the Federal Republic of the inviolability of the memorial and the assumption of the cost of grave care .

The Baltic states were the beginning of the war from the Soviet Union first occupied and then annexed . The invading Wehrmacht ousted them again and was greeted by the inhabitants as their liberators . When the Red Army returned to Estonia in 1944 , numerous Estonians fled from it to avoid alleged persecution .

War cemetery

The monument in the form of a tombstone with horizontal slabs was designed by the Estonian architects Richard Wunderlich (1902–1976) and Roman Koolmar (1904–1971). At that time they were living as displaced persons in the Pöppendorf DP camp .

The Estonian national community financed the monument in memory of the Estonians who died in Schleswig-Holstein in 1947 . On the front, the year wraps 1947 the coat of arms of the former Baltic republic in the form of the three border, intuiting the viewer leopard . Below the 30 names are "Schleswig-Holsteinis maetud eestlased" (Estonians buried in Schleswig-Holstein). The inscription under the name is translated into German : "Far from home, Estonians rest here". The German inscription but they are wrong (or mistranslated) because according to the documents of the cemetery administration here no deaths have been buried.

The area surrounding the monument could not have accommodated as many burials as there are inscriptions. Hence it is a memorial stone.

literature

  • Wilfried Fick: Cemeteries: Vorwerker Friedhof. 100 years from 1907–2007. Hanseatic City of Lübeck - Planning and Building Department, Estonian Memorial, Lübeck 2006, pp. 45–46.
  • "Lübecki eesti mälestussammas veerandsaja-aastane", Võitleja No. 7, July 1973, p. 8 (Estonian)

Web links

Commons : Estonian War Cemetery Lübeck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

credentials

  1. ^ Cemetery plan of the Vorwerker Friedhof ( Memento from June 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Harald Rebane: Eestlaste matusepaik Lübeckis , Postimees January 18, 1996 (Estonian, with list of names)