Metz war cemetery
The war cemetery of Metz (French: Nécropole nationale de Metz-Chambière ) is a military cemetery with victims of the war of 1870/71 and the First and Second World Wars in the former garrison cemetery of Metz on the outskirts of the Moselle island of Chambière . German (2,056 soldiers of the First World War), French, British, Italian, Russian and Belgian war victims rest in separate cemetery.
Cemetery since 1870/71
In 1870/71 French war dead from the siege of Metz were buried, during the First World War the French and Germans who died in the military hospitals, the foreign armies who died in captivity and the seriously wounded in the 1916/1917 battle of Verdun in the hospitals of Metz . Other World War I casualties from the Metz area were laid in bed in 1966. Victims of deportation and French and British war victims were buried during World War II. Hedges separating the burial fields were removed.
German burial ground
The graves are marked with crosses made of natural stone with names and dates. In the center is a high cross made of natural stone. On behalf of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V., the German burial ground in the cemetery is looked after by the French burial service - ONAC (Office national des anciens combattants et victimes de guerre).
See also
Web links
- Website Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge: Metz War Cemetery.
- Images from the Metz-Chambière cemetery
Individual evidence
- ↑ 100 years beginning of the First World War: Flowers
- ↑ (en) French War Cemetery Metz
- ↑ Metz war cemetery: origins and additional beds.
Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 2.9 ″ N , 6 ° 11 ′ 38.5 ″ E