Italian war cemetery Hamburg-Öjendorf
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Italian war cemetery Hamburg-Öjendorf |
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| Country: | Germany |
| Region: | Hamburg |
| Place: | Öjendorf cemetery |
| Inauguration: | October 1959 |
The Italian war cemetery Hamburg-Öjendorf ( Italian Amburgo (Öjendorf) - Cimitero militare italiano d'onore ) is located in the large municipal cemetery Öjendorf in Hamburg. The remains of 5,839 Italian nationals (prisoners of war, civil internees, victims of the Neuengamme concentration camp and its satellite camps and forced laborers ) rest here . The Öjendorfer Friedhof is located on the south-eastern outskirts of Hamburg.
location
From the Mattkamp entrance on the southern side of the cemetery, the main path, the North-South Street, leads directly through the civilian part of the cemetery to the northern end. The Italian war cemetery is located there in cemetery area 204. The Italian consulate general in Hanover is responsible for the care of the graves.
investment
The construction of the war cemetery is supervised by the commissariat for the Italian war dead (in Italian: Commissariato Generale Onoranze Caduti in Guerra). Construction began in 1957 and was completed in October 1959. Its use is regulated in the German-Italian War Graves Agreement of December 22, 1955.
A wide, straight path runs from Nord-Süd-Straße into the large central entrance area of the 40,000 square meter site. This upstream entrance area corresponds in shape and size to the five trapezoidal grave fields, which are circular and star-shaped around the central high cross, 10 meters high. The high cross consists of 5 blocks of shell limestone and was designed by the sculptor G. Kraemer. At the high cross there is also an altar and masts for the Italian flag.
On the top of the stones that are on the graves are rank, surname and first name or the note "unknown" or "Lav. Civ." (Civilian) engraved. There are flowers on some graves. The large area and the large number of tombstones make the number of 5,839 dead (5,668 identified and the 171 unidentified dead) obvious. The Italian war cemetery is a memorial.
Fate of the Italian military internees
On September 3, 1943, the Italian troops terminated their alliance with Germany in the Second World War with the Armistice of Cassibile . Italian soldiers who were prisoners of war were treated as internees and deported to Germany for forced labor , unless they continued to fight on the German side. Around 15,000 Italian military internees were deployed in Hamburg alone . Bad working conditions and bad treatment resulted in death. The surviving Italian military internees were not compensated for their forced labor.
The dead
The Italian nationals died between the beginning of the Second World War and April 15, 1946. Forced laborers from the Neuengamme concentration camp and its satellite camps and civilians rest here .
77 civilians and 145 soldiers come from grave sites in Schleswig-Holstein, mainly from Kiel , Heidkaten , Travemünde and Geesthacht . Most of the Italian deceased from the state of Schleswig-Holstein are buried in sector 5. The deceased from the state of Lower Saxony were reburied from the former POW camp main camp XB near Sandbostel (Rotenburg / Wümme district) and the Fullen camp in the Emsland camp . The dead were also transferred from grave sites in the Ruhr area.
At the Öjendorf cemetery there is a book for the fallen with their names, place of death and first place of burial. There is an online grave search on the website of the Italian Ministry of Defense.
Flyovers
Since 1999 (Legge 365/1999), relatives have been able to transfer the dead to private graves in Italy at their own expense, and 20 dead were exhumed in October 2002 and transferred to Italy.
Commemoration
On the first Sunday in November, the dead are commemorated with a mass, address by the Consulate General and the laying of a wreath.
See also
Web links
- The Öjendorf cemetery at zwangsarbeiter-sh.de
- Main cemetery Öjendorf - war cemeteries
- Hamburg-Öjendorf at Volksbund German War Cemeteries
- Öjendorf Cemetery: Italian prisoner of war cemetery, accessed on March 14, 2014.
- Searching for graves for those killed in war - Ministero della Difesa (Italian Ministry of Defense) (ital.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cemetery plan Öjendorf ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Öjendorf cemetery: Italian prisoner of war cemetery, accessed on March 14, 2014.
- ↑ Complesso commemorativo italiano all'interno del Cimitero di Amburgo-Öjendorf (information board on the Italian hall of honor in the park cemetery Öjendorf in Hamburg)
- ^ The Öjendorf cemetery at zwangsarbeiter-sh.de
- ↑ Complesso commemorativo italiono all'interno del Cimitero di Amburgo-Öjendorf (information board on the Italian hall of honor in the park cemetery Öjendorf in Hamburg)
- ↑ Camp X (Fullen) ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The Soviet military cemetery in Stukenbrock-Senne in November 1999.
- ^ Öjendorf cemetery: Italian prisoner of war cemetery, accessed on March 14, 2014.
- ^ The Öjendorf cemetery at zwangsarbeiter-sh.de
- ↑ (it) Searching for graves for those who died in the war - Ministero della Difesa (Italian Ministry of Defense)
- ^ The Öjendorf cemetery at zwangsarbeiter-sh.de
- ^ The Öjendorf cemetery at zwangsarbeiter-sh.de
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 34.5 " N , 10 ° 7 ′ 44.2" E