Memorial near Vossberg

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The complex of the memorial
The field stone base with the propeller and the memorial plaques

The memorial near Voßberg is a memorial near the Vossberg settlement, on the L211 in the Dobersdorf municipality in the Plön district in Schleswig-Holstein , which commemorates two events during the Second World War and the fallen British and Germans.

investment

The facility consists of a square base made of hewn field stones, on which is part of a propeller and to which two panels are attached - the upper one with the names of the fallen Germans, the lower one with the names of the fallen British. A short gravel path leads to the base, in front of the facility there is an anchor in front of a surrounding wall (some of the German soldiers belonged to the Navy ) on a small gravel area. An information board explains the system.

history

The memorial is reminiscent of the crash of a British bomber shot down in an attack on Kiel on October 23 or 24, 1941 (shortly before or after midnight) into a spotlight position (which was on a slight rise near the memorial). The four-man crew of the bomber and four soldiers in the searchlight were killed. Surviving soldiers of the spotlight position erected the memorial - most likely the propeller used is part of the crashed bomber.

On April 4, 1943, there was another attack on Kiel, with some of the bombers missing the target and the area and villages around the memorial badly hit. A flak position near the memorial was hit by an air mine , and five soldiers lost their lives - including the surviving soldiers who had erected the memorial about 1 ½ years earlier.

First a plaque with the names of the nine German dead, later also a plaque with the names of the four British dead (who rest in the Kiel War Cemetery ) was attached.

  • Information board at the Vossberg memorial

  • Boards at the memorial near Vossberg

  • The hill west of the memorial where the headlights were positioned and the bomber crashed (in the background the Dobersdorfer See )

  • The area east of the memorial (on the left) where the flak position was

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Web links

Commons : Memorial near Vossberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 54 ° 18 ′ 17.1 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 23.9 ″  E