Cemeteries in Löcknitz

Löcknitz cemetery portal

The cemeteries in Löcknitz are the locations of various memorials and burial grounds. In Löcknitz there is the community cemetery on Friedrich-Engels-Strasse and the Soviet cemetery of honor at the exit of Löcknitz.

Löcknitz cemetery

The Löcknitz cemetery is subordinate to the cemetery administration Amt Löcknitz-Penkun, Chausseestraße 30 in Löcknitz. On it are:

The small, Gothic cemetery chapel made of brick, with a gable roof and a ridge turret .
The memorial stone for the victims of war, violence and displacement as a field stone with a black granite slab attached and the inscription: THE LOST HOME / DIED ON THE WAY / BURIED NAMELY HERE / DON'T FORGET OUR SORRY! / 1945–1946
The German soldier grave field with 58 grave sites for 116 fallen German soldiers of the Wehrmacht in the battle for Löcknitz in April 1945. At the head of the tripartite grave field there is a memorial stone, consisting of a base made of granite blocks on which a cross made of black granite stands Inscription: A BIGGER LOVE / HAS NO ONE THAN THE ONE WHO LETS BE LIFE / FOR HIS FRIENDS / / LÖCKNITZ REMEMBERED / THE FALLEN / AND VICTIMS / OF THE SECOND / WORLD WAR / 1939–1945

Soviet cemetery of honor

The Soviet Cemetery of Honor at the exit of Löcknitz towards the left / German-Polish border to Stettin has 24 grave sites for 43 Red Army soldiers who died in the battle for Löcknitz in April 1945. The cemetery of honor was designed by the architect Karl Niekrenz in 1946 and executed and designed in 1947. The entire rectangular complex is enclosed with massive concrete walls and pillars as well as wrought iron fence panels. In the center of the facility is a five-meter-high, square concrete pavilion in which four wide paths cross. Until the beginning of the 1990s, the pavilion, whose ceiling is broken in the form of a five-pointed star, was also crowned by a large red Soviet star standing upright on it . In front of the pavilion, the 24 grave sites are laid out in a row on the north side, 20 of which are marked by small obelisks , each with small red Soviet stars and the names of the fallen Soviet soldiers engraved in Russian with Cyrillic letters . The remaining four grave sites are mass graves, which are combined in two three-part gravestones, one at the beginning and one at the end of the row of graves. A medium-sized red Soviet star in a laurel wreath is engraved on the two outer gravestone tablets on the left and right , including the years "1941" and "1945" which mark the beginning and end of the Second World War for the Soviet Union . On the central parts there is the following inscription in Russian with Cyrillic letters: BEЧHAЯ CЛABA / BOИHAM COBETCКOЙ / APMИИ ПABШИM / B БOЯX ЗA ЧECTЬ / И HEЗABИCИMOCTЬ / HAШEЙ DERMEDIANS / DENERMEEЙ POДJИHЫ / DENERMEE RICHEH THOSE FALLEN IN THE FIGHT FOR HONOR / AND INDEPENDENCE / OUR HOME). The entire cemetery of honor can be entered through two entrances, in the east through a wrought iron gate, in the west through a large main portal made of concrete with two gates and also a wrought iron gate. Remains of the following Russian inscription have been preserved on the portal gable: БРАТCКOЕ КЛAДБИЩE / ... HOB [ BOИHOB ] ... OBE ... KOИ [ COBETCКOЙ ] APMИИ (German translation: HELDENFRIEDHOF / ... GER [ THE WARRIOR ]. ..WJE ... EN [ OF THE SOVIET ] ARMY). Around 1974/76 the "Memorial for the Victims of Fascism" (VVN-Mahnmal), which until then was located in the Old Löcknitzer Cemetery, was moved to the Soviet Cemetery of Honor, on the north side of the complex, behind the pavilion. In the decades after the political change in 1990, the entire facility fell into disrepair due to a lack of financial resources, so that a complete demolition was considered and discussed. In 2013, after more than 15 years, considerations, discussions and planning, started with money from the Russian Federation , of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the construction yard provided the community Loecknitz labor, and with technical advice of the State Office for Culture and Heritage Conservation Mecklenburg-Vorpommern the complete and fundamental renovation of the Soviet Cemetery of Honor. On November 17, 2013, the day of national mourning , the cemetery of honor was opened in a solemn ceremony in the presence of many residents of Löcknitz and members of the Bundeswehr as a representative of the Volksbund Deutscher Kriegsgräberfürsorge by the Löcknitz pastor Dr. Ullrich Drans among other things with the laying of funeral wreaths , officially inaugurated again.
Memorial to the victims of fascism in the Soviet Cemetery of Honor

→ Designed and executed by the architect Karl Niekrenz in 1949. The VVN memorial was first erected in the old Löcknitzer cemetery, near Abendstrasse, behind the old school. It is a four-part monument made of red terrazzo , the main part of which forms a tripartite wall. On the 3.50 meter high middle section there is a red triangular “prisoner corner” , like the one that political prisoners in concentration camps had to wear between 1933 and 1945 during the Nazi era . To the left and right of it are two smaller, slightly inclined, side panels. The one on the left of the viewer bears the inscription: REMEMBERED / OUR NEED / REMEMBERED / OUR DEATH. The panel on the right of the observer bears the inscription: YOU / THE LORBER / US / THE DUTY. In front of the tripartite wall is a shrine 145 centimeters high, 135 centimeters wide and 75 centimeters deep , which is designed as a symbolic urn vault and on which prison bars are also symbolically attached. It is crowned with a sacrificial bowl and also bears the inscription: DIE VICTIMS MAHNEN / 1933–1945. The seven urns in the vault symbolize the remains of the resistance group around Walter Empacher and Werner Krause (Empacher-Krause resistance group) active in Stettin , not far from Löcknitz, until December 1944 , seven of which were executed by the Gestapo in February 1945 . In 1974, according to other information not until 1976, the “Memorial for the Victims of Fascism” was then moved to the Soviet Cemetery of Honor at the exit of Löcknitz in the direction of Linken / German-Polish. The border was implemented because, due to its great similarity, it fitted very well into the entire complex of the Ehrenfriedhof both architecturally and in terms of memory . In the course of the renovation of the Soviet Cemetery of Honor in 2013, the memorial was also renovated.