Hofkirchen war cemetery
The Hofkirchen war cemetery is located on the western outskirts of the Hofkirchen market in the Lower Bavarian district of Passau .
The cemetery is located on a hill overlooking a bend in the Danube and was laid out by the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge as a resting place for victims of the First and Second World Wars . The location of the old Seehof noble residence was selected for the facility, which was inaugurated in 1959. A three-layer quarry stone wall with a tiled roof surrounds the entire complex.
The individual graves are arranged in 36 rows and each marked with a cross-shaped ceramic stone. Groups of three symbolic grave crosses made of local granite are distributed over the entire cemetery. In Hofkirchen there are 45 deaths from World War I, 72 women and 21 children who were killed in low-level aircraft attacks during World War II . In addition, there are 2,635 German soldiers, Russian volunteers and legionaries from various countries from the Second World War . They were all reburied here from 391 community cemeteries and individual field graves from all over Lower Bavaria and Upper Palatinate . There are also over 40 German soldiers, unknown by name, reburied from several graves in the vicinity of Roding in the Bavarian Forest .
At the edge of the war cemetery Hofkirchen, behind the rocky slope towards the Danube, rises the light gray round chapel made of local granite with its eight-meter-high, copper-cross-crowned conical roof. Inside the chapel, the names of all known people buried in the cemetery are carved on red marble plaques on the walls.
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View from the chapel to the entrance
Cross at the chapel entrance
Chapel entrance
Chapel interior
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge: Hofkirchen , accessed on January 9, 2016.
- ↑ a b Markt Hofkirchen: War Cemetery , accessed on January 9, 2016.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 41 ′ 9.2 ″ N , 13 ° 7 ′ 9 ″ E