Hermelsbach cemetery
In 1912 the Hermelsbacher Friedhof was opened as the second cemetery in the Westphalian city of Siegen . The cemetery has a size of around eleven hectares . With a total of 10,000 graves, around 135 burials take place annually.
1,109 war victims from both world wars were buried in the Hermelsbach cemetery. Embedded in the complex is a grave field on which 377 of 691 Russian forced laborers who were buried in Siegen are buried and who were victims of National Socialism . A memorial with plaques in four languages - Russian, Ukrainian, English and German - commemorates their fate. In other parts there are graves of victims of the Second World War and soldiers.
In the Jewish section of the cemetery about 50 people were buried since 1912, including the first chairman of the Jewish community victory, the merchant Meyer solver star. A memorial at the head of the burial ground commemorates the victims of the Holocaust . Siegener Walter Kramer , carriers of the award Righteous Among the Nations of the State of Israel , is buried with his wife Liesel on the Hermel Bacher cemetery.
On the northwestern edge of the cemetery is a small lake with carp and trout . The cemetery is located on a hillside on the northwestern edge of the Siegen urban area in the Hermelsbachtal, embedded in the forest landscape of the Wellersberg .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 17 ″ N , 8 ° 0 ′ 33 ″ E