Westhausen cemetery
The Westhausen cemetery is on the edge of the Westhausen settlement in Frankfurt am Main . It was inaugurated in 1952 and has a size of 22.2 hectares .
A section of the cemetery , the Cimitero di Guerra Italiano , is one of four honorary cemeteries for Italian war victims in Germany, which were created in the 1950s. 4,788 Italian war victims have rested there since 1957. Most of the people buried there were soldiers who had to do forced labor in Germany as Italian military internees from 1943 onwards .
In 1960, the funeral hall designed by sculptor Otto Herbert Hajek and architect Günter Bock was built with an adjoining, 75-meter-long reinforced concrete wall. The constellation sparked heated discussions at the start of construction, as the architect believes that the wall and the mourning hall area should structurally accompany the funeral procession, but not represent the center.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 14 ″ N , 8 ° 36 ′ 20 ″ E