War cemetery on the Nagelberg
The war cemetery on the Nagelberg is a memorial in Treuchtlingen in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . Over 2,545 war victims from both world wars are buried on the cemetery, which was consecrated in 1961, on an area of around 0.8 hectares , making it the third largest war cemetery in Bavaria .
location
The Nagelberg war cemetery is located on the western slope of the eponymous, 541.7 m high Nagelberg , above the Altmühl and around one kilometer north of Treuchtlingen. This convenient and scenic location was chosen because of the nearby collective graves of the Second World War .
history
1956 began with plans to build a memorial in Treuchtlingen, which were realized from 1958. The architect of the facility was Helmut Schöner ; the horticultural design comes from Anton Maier. Around 25,000 people came to the inauguration on September 10, 1961; Speeches were made by State Secretary Dr. Fritz Staudinger , the Eichstätter Domkapitular Johannes Kraus , a former resistance fighter against National Socialism , and Oberkirchenrat Dr. Giegler from Nuremberg.
316 civilians are among the 2,545 dead from 472 communities and 15 European peoples buried here . Furthermore, 42 victims of the First World War and 400 people who died in Allied bombing raids in Treuchtlingen in 1945 were among those buried . 355 dead could never be identified . The names of the known victims are engraved on a book with metal pages.
ensemble
There are five collective graves on the complex, which are provided with 25 by 25 cm large clay crosses as tombstones of the victims. An artificially created stream flows on the site . Along the footpath that leads to the burial site, there are seven listed stone crosses by Johannes Egelhardt from Wemdingen, made of Jura limestone, with the years 1939 to 1945 engraved on them. A helicopter of the Bundeswehr was 19 m long (according to other sources 21 m) and one and a half tons heavier , made of copper spire with green patina placed in the center of the memorial. This asymmetrically erected and five-sided tower helmet represents the roofing of an open memorial hall. On a stone tablet at the foot of the tower helmet the writing Den Töteten aus Rerechtigkeit - the living to repentance was carved. In the hall under the spire there is a bronze figure of a dying soldier by the sculptor Emil Krieger from Munich with the words Let our sacrifice be enough, swears off violence and saves the human being.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Treuchtlinger Kurier , October 10, 2011
- ↑ wugwiki.de
- ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- ↑ Description of the system on the SPD Treuchtlingen website
- ↑ St. Willibalds-Bote Eichstätt, September 24, 1961, p. 12
- ↑ weltkriegsopfer.de
- ^ Article from the Donaukurier , October 5, 2011
- ^ Treuchtlinger Kurier , September 18, 2011
Coordinates: 48 ° 58 '17.2 " N , 10 ° 55' 20.7" E