War cemetery courtyard
The war grave cemetery Hof is a war cemetery in the city of Hof , it is part of the listed cemetery complex on Plauener Straße.
Location and scope
The cemetery is at the fork of the arterial roads to Schleiz and Plauen across from Theresienstein . The war graves are in the northwest part of the cemetery. The terrain there slopes gently down to the Krebsbach .
The war graves include graves of soldiers from the First and Second World Wars , which are arranged in several fields. These are fallen soldiers who were born in the vicinity of Hof, but also, for example, Russian slave laborers. The War Graves Commission names 979 German war dead, most of whom died in hospitals . Some of the graves from the First World War have metal crosses with enamel signs inscribed in more detail, the majority are stone crosses or simple memorial stones made of granite.
Elsewhere in the cemetery further east is a grave field of people who, according to the inscription, were mainly killed in the Koenigstrasse at the end of the war in the bombing raids on February 14 and April 8 and 12, 1945 . The main target of the bombing was the main train station .
In the cemetery of Moschendorf there are nine more war graves with deceased refugees from the Moschendorf camp .
Individual graves
A grave with the column after the Control Council Directive No. 30 modified pilot badge recalls the pilot Lieutenant Rödel. In the literature, the symbol is incorrectly associated with the Condor Legion , but Lieutenant Rödel was active as a member of Kampfgruppe 88 with over 100 missions. According to the inscription, the bearer of the golden Spanish cross with swords fell on October 16, 1938 in La Fatarella in Spain. The column was manufactured by the Reul company in Niederlamitz .
The resistance fighters Hans Merker , Ewald Klein and Philipp Heller are buried in a common grave in the cemetery.
Web links
- Entry at the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge
- Overview of the cemetery complex including a map on the website of the city of Hof
Individual evidence
- ↑ District Association of Upper Franconia of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. (Ed.): War cemeteries in Upper Franconia . Bayreuth 1985. pp. 24f.
Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 43.1 ″ N , 11 ° 54 ′ 45.8 ″ E