Vossenack war cemetery
The Vossenack war cemetery in Vossenack is one of two war cemeteries in the Hürtgen Forest .
history
The All Souls Battle of the Second World War in the northern Eifel , where the war cemeteries are located, claimed numerous victims on both the German and the American side.
In both cemeteries, here and at the Hürtgen war cemetery , not only the soldiers who fell in the fighting in the Hürtgen Forest, but also those who fell from the area were rescued and buried by volunteers, including the former pioneer captain Julius Erasmus .
The war cemetery
The cemetery is located about 500 m outside the village not far from the federal highway 399 on Simonskaller Straße near the Franziskaner-Gymnasium.
Until 1971 Vossenack belonged to the Monschau district . This district began planning a war cemetery in 1948 at Höhe 470, which was contested in the Second World War. The Düren district had also planned a war cemetery in neighboring Hürtgen. Construction work began in Vossenack in the summer of 1949. The building owner was the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge .
From the Monschau district, also from the Vossenack village cemetery, a total of 2221 fallen soldiers, including 930 unknown dead, were buried in the cemetery. The grave of General Field Marshal Walter Model is also located here .
See also
Web links
- Vossenack war cemetery on the website of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge
- The Vossenack and Hürtgen cemeteries of honor , Hürtgenwald History Association, June 2002 (PDF; 576 KB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge : Vossenack War Cemetery , accessed on May 4, 2019.
Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 29.6 " N , 6 ° 20 ′ 55.4" E