Cossack grave
The Cossack grave is a listed grave complex in Halberstadt in Saxony-Anhalt .
It is located west of Halberstadt on the north side of the Braunschweiger Straße between Halberstadt and Aspenstedt, which leads in the direction of Osterwieck as federal road 79 . Immediately to the east of the grave is a road house .
The tomb serves as a memorial to the Wars of Liberation . In the grave two are Cossacks of Czernitscheffschen Corps buried that on May 31, 1813 during a skirmish on the Burchardianger died.
There is a tombstone at the north end of the grave . It is labeled with the words:
Here rest
two Cossacks of the
Czernitscheff Corps
who on May 31, 1813
in the battle
on the Burchardi
anger ...
The last word is no longer legible (as of 2013).
In the local register of monuments , the tomb is listed as a monument under registration number 094 02718.
literature
- State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.), Falko Grubitzsch, Harald Kleinschmidt (Ed.): Monument Directory Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 2, District Halberstadt. Fly Head Verlag, Halle an der Saale 1994, ISBN 3-910147-61-5 , page 85.
- Karl Ludwig William Ernst von Prittwitz, Contributions to the History of the Year 1813 , Volume 2, S.223f Description of the battle on the Burchardi-Anger
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt , Magdeburg.pdf, page 1778.
Coordinates: 51 ° 54 ′ 33.6 ″ N , 11 ° 0 ′ 25.6 ″ E