List of displaced persons in Baden-Württemberg (R – Z)
This list of expellee monuments in Baden-Württemberg (R – Z) shows the monuments to the Germans who were expelled from or perished there after the Second World War from the eastern areas of the German Empire and from settlement areas in eastern Europe. It includes thank you boards for being accepted in West Germany.
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Radolfzell on Lake Constance | Luisenplatz, Ostland memorial plaque | 1958 | "Whether you are a child of this city, whether expelled from your home country, whether killed in the field while fleeing back home, whether you are a man, woman or child - never forget them!" | ||
Rastatt | Memorial stone in the patient garden of the district hospital | 1977 | "You find them where you ask about them: fallen in the east, lamented in the west." | ||
Rastatt | Memorial plaque on the funeral hall of the municipal cemetery | 1970 | “To the victims of violence and evictions from the slag dam 1945–1946.” See Ostrov nad Ohří . | ||
Rastatt | Memorial stone on the forest cemetery, coats of arms of ten country teams and the BdV. | 1996 | “The dead of our homeland. In memory of deportation, flight and expulsion from 1945–1996. Forgetting is worse than death. " | ||
Rastatt | Memorial plaque in the town hall | “On June 7th, 1969 the city of Rastatt took over the sponsorship of the Germans expelled in 1945/46 from the city of Schlackenwerth / Böhmen, the home of our margravine Sybilla Augusta (1675-1733) in Baden. Since then, Rastatt has been the meeting point for the Schlackenwerther people. The city of Rastatt tries to be the spiritual center of the Schlackenwerther and to promote and maintain their German cultural heritage. ”See Franziska Sibylla Augusta von Sachsen-Lauenburg . | |||
Rastatt | Millstone from the time of Franziska Sibylla Augusta von Sachsen-Lauenburg | 1975 | Directions to the twin cities and the sponsored town of Schlackenwerth in Bohemia | ||
Reilingen | Ostkreuz in the cemetery | 1954 | "These are the hardest hours in the world when someone without a home comes home, when someone without a home in prayer ..." | ||
Remseck am Neckar | Cemetery in Aldingen , memorial stone | "In memory of their dead who lost their home." | |||
Remshalden | Memorial plaque in Geradstetten , 6 country team coats of arms . | "Expulsion from the East in 1945. Right to a home." | |||
Reutlingen | Römerschanz cemetery, memorial: Coats of arms of East Prussia, Danzig, West Prussia, Pomerania, Silesia, Upper Silesia, Memelland, Sudetenland, Danube Swabia and Brandenburg. | 1984/2001 | "Unforgettable home." | ||
Reutlingen | there, memorial stone of the Neu-Pasua community | 1976 | “Our dead New Pasua 1790–1945. Do not forget us. "-" The dead of the homeland, the expulsion, the new homeland. " | ||
Reutlingen | there, memorial stone of the community Sackelhausen | 1980 | “Sackelhausen Banat. In memory of our fallen, missing and deceased. " | ||
Reutlingen | there, memorial stone of the Franzfeld community | 1973 | “The dead of the homeland (1940-1948).” Of the 5793 inhabitants, 1216 perished in camps. | ||
Rheinfelden (Baden) | Memorial plaque at the foot of the memorial for the victims of both world wars in the cemetery | 1954 | "The fallen and missing of our citizens from the German east." | ||
Rheinfelden | Memorial stone in the municipal cemetery | 1955 | "To commemorate our dead in the east of Germany, whose graves are inaccessible to us." | ||
Rheinfelden | Memorial plaque next to the entrance to St. Gallus (Rheinfelden / Baden) | 1952/1954 | “In memory of the fallen and dead from our German East. As a reminder to the living. " | ||
Rosenberg (Württemberg) | Memorial cross in Hohenberg | 1954 | "In honor of our dead and heroes of our abandoned homeland in 1954." | ||
Rottenburg am Neckar | Memorial chapel in the spa complex of Bad Niedernau , consecrated by Georg Moser : Donauschwaben, Vojvodina ; Earth from mass graves ( Hodschag , Filipowa , Gakovo ) | 1979 |
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Rottenburg am Neckar | Liebfrauenhöhe in Ergenzingen , memorial stone for the war victims of the Danube Swabians | "The LM Donauschwaben to their war victims 1939-1945." | |||
Salach | South Moravian Cross in the cemetery | 1950 | |||
Rogue blades | Memorial on the way to the Hollow Rock | 1955-1980 | “11,750,000 Germans were driven from their homeland. 2,200,000 lost their lives, including thousands of Germans from Russia. 1,700,000 displaced persons found a new home in Baden-Württemberg. You have helped to rebuild this country. " | ||
Schönaich | Cemetery, memorial stone for Miletitsch | 1973 | |||
Schorndorf | Memorial behind the funeral hall in the New Cemetery: Excerpt from the charter of German expellees | 1981 | |||
Schramberg | Memorial cross on Bismarckplatz | 1955 | |||
Schuttertal | Modo memorial stone | 1974 | |||
Schwäbisch Gmünd | Brno memorial fountain, originally in Postgasse, since 1999 in Oberbettringer Straße (entrance to the municipal building yard) | 1974 | |||
Schwäbisch Gmünd | BdV memorial at the Trinity Cemetery | 1989 | |||
Schwäbisch Gmünd | Ostlandkreuz, there | 1955 | |||
Schwäbisch Gmünd | Memorial stone on Rechberg in Rechberg (Schwäbisch Gmünd) : Neueigen and Groß Dittersdorf in the district of Bärn , Oderquelle | 1988 | |||
Schwäbisch Gmünd | Ostlandkreuz, cemetery in Großdeinbach | 1962 | |||
Schwäbisch Gmünd | Park in the city center, wayside shrine "White Martyrs of Brno" | 1988 | "In gratitude to the Blessed Mother Mary for being saved from the misery of 1945. The Germans from Brno and the language island." - "This wayside shrine is a thank you to the new home and the sponsored city." | ||
Schwäbisch Gmünd | Memorial plaque in the Heilig-Kreuz-Münster | “The memory of our dead in Brno and the victims on the difficult journey to a new home. Bruna, home association of Brno. " | |||
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Schwäbisch Gmünd | Commemorative plaque on the “Prediger” cultural center, sponsorship Brno | |||
Schwäbisch Gmünd | Cemetery in Herlikofen , memorial for the 187 men shot by partisans in Glaserhau | ||||
Schwäbisch Hall | Forest cemetery on the B 14 towards Stuttgart, memorial: roundabout with crown of thorns | 1983 | |||
Schwieberdingen | Funeral hall of the cemetery: memorial plaque with relief | “To the dead at home and around the world, the victims of wars, displacement and violence from Stanishich.” See Stanišić (Sombor) . | |||
Sigmaringen | Zollerfels, Ostlandkreuz and 8 commemorative plaques | 1953 | "Gdansk, West Prussia – Baltic States, Wartheland – Memelland, East Prussia – Silesia, Sudetenland – Pomerania, East Brandenburg – Banat, Spiš, Transylvania – Batschka, Syrmia, Swabian Turkey, Buchenland – Bessarabia." | ||
Sigmaringen | Brenzkofer Berg, memorial stone at the Ostlandkreuz | 1976 | “Loyalty to home. 1945–1948 Expulsion of Germans from the Baltic States, Danzig, Wartheland, East Prussia, West Prussia, Pomerania, East Brandenburg, Memelland, Silesia, Sudetenland, Galicia, Spiš, Buchenland, Bessarabia, Batschka, Banat, Transylvania, Syrmia, Swabian Turkey. " | ||
Sindelfingen | House and memorial of the Danube Swabians | 1982 | |||
Sindelfingen | Burghaldenfriedhof, Goldberg, St. Maria: Heimat Gedächtniskapelle (1949), wooden cross (1953), memorial plaque (1982) | ||||
Sindelfingen | Cenotaph in the old cemetery in Darmsheim | 1980 | "Fallen and missing Neuhauer Slovakia, World War II 1939-1945." | ||
Sinsheim | Cemetery, Ostlandkreuz with stone | 1949/1975 | "The dead from their distant homeland, they rest in: Silesia, Sudetenland, East and West Prussia, Gdansk, the Baltic States, Pomerania, the Vistula-Warta region, the Carpathian-Danube region, Bessarabia, the Black Sea region." | ||
Spraitbach | Cemetery at the Catholic Church, memorial | 1964 | |||
Steinheim am Albuch | Cemetery, memorial cross of the municipality of Neudorf (Batschka) | ||||
Steinheim an der Murr | Memorial cross at the primary and secondary school: Sponsorship for Kotenburg and Christianberg in the Bohemian Forest | 1957 | |||
Steinheim an der Murr | Memorial stone in the cemetery, sponsorship Christianberg | 1986 | |||
Steinheim an der Murr | Memorial and distance stone for Sárvár and Christianberg at the Blankenstein School | 1991 | |||
Stockach | Loreto cemetery, memorial stone, coat of arms of East Prussia, Silesia, Gdansk, Pomerania, Sudetenland | 1989 | “As a warning to the living. In honor of the millions of victims who were expelled from their traditional homeland in 1945–1946. " | ||
Stuttgart | New castle , memorial plaque | 2002 | “Understanding instead of displacement, reconciliation instead of retaliation. In the face of the ravages of war and displacement, the German expellees and refugees publicly proclaimed the charter of German expellees on August 6, 1950 in front of the ruins of the New Palace. From their painful experience, future generations should grow a united Europe, worldwide understanding and an internationally recognized human and homeland law. " | ||
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Stuttgart | Bad Cannstatt spa gardens , memorial: Complete text of the charter of German expellees . Bronze sculpture by Ingrid Seddig from Stolp | 1986 | ||
Stuttgart | Büsnau , memorial stone | 1982 | “In memory of the repatriation of the Germans who emigrated to Bukowina in the 18th and 19th centuries in 1940, of the reconstruction work carried out there and of the founders of the Buchenland Germans' settlement in Stuttgart-Büsnau in 1946. In memory of the fallen Buchenlanders both World wars, to the dead and missing of the expulsion, flight and deportation. Donated by the Landsmannschaft der Buchenland-Germans. " | ||
Stuttgart | Red , memorial stone at the corner of Haldenrainstrasse / Erlingheimer Strasse, coats of arms of Silesia, East Prussia, Danube Swabia, Sudetenland, German-Baltic, Russian-German, Upper Silesia, Memelland, Vistula-Warthe, Gdansk League, Pomerania, Carpathian Mountains, Transylvania, Bessarabia, Buchenland | 1994 | "In memory of our old home, we thank you for a new home in Stuttgart-Rot." | ||
Stuttgart | Zuffenhausen cemetery , memorial: the coats of arms of Silesia, East Prussia, Sudetenland, Danube Swabia | 1987 | |||
Stuttgart | India | ||||
Triberg in the Black Forest | Memorial plaque in the crypt of the memorial on the Hoheneck. Coat of arms of Pomerania, West Prussia, East Prussia, Danzig; Sudetenland, Lower Silesia, Upper Silesia, Danube Swabia. | 1961 | "In the battles of World War II in 1939/45 and during the occupation of the German eastern territories, as well as during the deportation and expulsion from their original homeland in 1945/49, 64 relatives of the expellees residing in Triberg gave their lives for Germany." | ||
Tuttlingen | Old cemetery, memorial to the displaced (Memelland, East Prussia, West Prussia, Danzig, Pomerania, Brandenburg, Silesia, Wartheland, Sudetenland, Danube Swabia, Transylvania) | 1956 | “Our home is where our dead rest. Where we honor our dead lies our dignity. In memory of our deceased at home and the victims of the displacement. The expellees. " | ||
Tuttlingen | near the Tuttlingen train station , signposts to Königsberg (Prussia) , Stettin , Breslau and Eger | ||||
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Überlingen | Memorial stone in the green area opposite the rose garden / district court, coats of arms of East Prussia, Pomerania, Gdansk, Silesia, Sudetenland, Überlingen. | 1976 | "The dead remind those living in freedom to commemorate the dead of the expulsion in 1945/46 and the victims on the wall and barbed wire." | |
Uhingen | Memorial cross in the cemetery | 1956/1972 | "The dead of home." | ||
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Ulm | Monument to the Danube Swabians | 1958/1974 | “In the 18th century, German settlers moved from Ulm on the Danube to southeastern Europe. Their descendants, driven by fate after World War II, returned to their fathers' land. 1958. ”-“ Several thousand surviving returnees emigrated to other European countries and overseas out of need and desperation. So the Danube Swabians scattered all over the world and became respected citizens everywhere. Her also be honored. 1974. " | |
Ulm | Memorial plaques on the old city wall, Danube Swabian bank | from 1986 | 1. “Danube Swabians, emigration, settlement, return: the dead at home, the war and the expulsion:” 2. “Banat Swabians. Half a million Germans found a home in the Banat for almost three hundred years. ” 3.“ The market and large community of Apatin – Abthausen on the Danube in the Batschka, 1730–1944. ” 4.“ The three sister communities on the Danube: Altpalanka-Neupalanka , German Palanka. 1764–1944. ” 5.“ The community of Obrovac, Boroc-Oberndorf in Batschka 1900–1944. ” 6.“ Gakowa, Gakovo, Gador 1783–1944, German community in Batschka. 1944–1948 internment camp, death place of thousands of Danube Swabians. ” 7.“ Bukin an der Donau, German village in Batschka, 1748–1944. ” 8.“ Novo Selo, Neudorf an der Donau, first German settlement in Batschka, 1734–1945 . ” 9.“ Gajdobra, Neu-Gajdobra, 1765–1885, German community in Batschka until 1944. ” 10.“ Rudolfsgnad Banat, 1888–1944, German community with 3200 inhabitants. 1944–1948 internment camp, death place of thousands of Danube Swabians. " |
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Ulm | Memorial stone of the municipality of Varyash , behind the exhibition center on the Danube | 1990 | “Varyash near Temeschburg in the Banat. We remember our dead in the cemetery of our homeland and in the cemeteries of our new home. Home on shimmering waves drives your changing skills, draw the magical arc beyond anchored happiness. Here in Ulm our ancestors entrusted themselves to our fateful stream of the Danube with the Ulmer boxes 200 years ago. We thank the city of Ulm for their help. Ulm in June 1990. Ludwig Kloos. " | ||
Ulm | Friedrichsau, memorial stone of the community of Zauchtel , Kuhländchen : Chronicle of the community of Zauchtel | 1990 | |||
Vaihingen an der Enz | Memorial of the home group of the Jauerniger at the war memorial in the cemetery, coat of arms of Jauering , Sörgsdorf , Barzdorf , Weißwasser , Wildschütz , Weißbach , Krautenwalde , Neu Wilmsdorf , Obergostitz , Waldek . | 1995 | “Banished by arbitrariness, from our fathers country. In death freed from grief, misery and suffering. Only love that frowns on hatred points to the path that then reconciles. " | ||
Vaihingen an der Enz | Memorial plaque at the entrance to the Heimatstube, Kehlstrasse 68 | 1955 | "The residents of Jauering and the surrounding area remember their homeland and thank the citizens of Vaihingen for taking over the sponsorship July 24, 1955 Sudeten-Silesia 1945." | ||
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Villingen-Schwenningen | Waldfriedhof Schwenningen, memorial with a wooden cross and granite slabs | 1963 | “The dead of our homeland. East u. West Prussia, Sudetenland, Pomerania, Silesia, Danube Swabia etc. all other displacement areas. " | |
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Villingen-Schwenningen | Memorial in the green area at the Kaiserring in Villingen: three stone blocks symbolize the tripartite Germany, the crown of thorns the ordeal of the displaced, the water of the fountain the immortality of life. | "Unforgettable homeland East Prussia, West Prussia, Pomerania, Silesia, Sudetenland, Danube regions." | ||
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Villingen-Schwenningen | Memorial for the Danube Swabians at the Villingen cemetery | "The dead Danube Swabians of two world wars fleeing from the extermination camps 1944 - 1948" | ||
Waghausel | Memorial cross next to the funeral hall in the cemetery | 1953 | "The dead of home." | ||
Waghausel | Kirrlach , corner of Kolpingstrasse and Heidelberger Strasse | 1996 | “As a reminder and thanks for the admission of the expellees in Kirrlach in the period after the Second World War 1945/46. Created in 1996 by the displaced persons. " | ||
Waiblingen | Stone cross at the entrance to the cemetery | "Signs of suffering, signs of victory, help bear the wrong, let hope the right." | |||
Waldshut-Tiengen | Memorial stone on the Unterlauchringen-Kadelburg road in Waldshut | 1965 | |||
Wangen in the Allgäu | Market square in front of the town hall, memorial plaque | 1984 | “So that it won't be forgotten! As a result of the Second World War, 14 million Germans were expelled from their homeland in the east: from East Prussia, Danzig and West Prussia, East Pomerania and East Brandenburg, from Silesia, from Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia, from the Banat and Batschka, from Sathmar and Transylvania the beech country and Bessarabia. About 2 million people died in this displacement. The sufferings and victims of the displaced are supposed to warn all over the world to respect the right of home and to protect the rights of minorities. Our city has become a new home for more than 2,800 displaced people. Wangen im Allgäu, on the home days in 1984. " | ||
Wangen in the Allgäu | Marketplace in front of the town hall, bronze plate, map of Central Europe, areas of origin of the expellees (East Prussia, West Prussia, Pomerania, Brandenburg, Silesia, Upper Silesia, Buchenland, Szathmar, Bessarabia, Batschka, Banat, Transylvania, Herzegovina) | 1984 | |||
Because of the city | Cemetery, Ostlandkreuz (granite) | 1982 | “Remember your dead in distant homeland. Pray for them and they will be close to you. 1953. " | ||
Weingarten (Baden) | Cemetery, memorial stone | 1987 | "1837-1987. In memory of the dead. In memory of the living from Towarisch-Ridau of Batschka. ”See Bačka Palanka and Riđica in Vojvodina . | ||
Weingarten (Württemberg) | Schlossbüchel, memorial of the east, roundel with wooden cross and stone coat of arms of the sales areas (Russian-German, East Prussia, West Prussia, Vistula-Warthe, Gdansk, Silesia, Pomerania, Brandenburg, Sudetenland, Danube Swabia, Transylvania) | 1957 | |||
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Weinberg | Memorial stone in front of the funeral hall in the cemetery | 1973 | ||
Welzheim | Memorial stone on the old cemetery on Rudersberger Strasse | 1971 | "In memory of the old homeland and the dead, in gratitude for the new homeland." | ||
Wendlingen am Neckar | Memorial cross of the East-West Prussia Landsmannschaft | 1957 | |||
Wendlingen am Neckar | Cemetery in Unterboihingen , stone cross of the Egerländer | 1961 | |||
Wendlingen am Neckar | Memorial plaque in the foyer of the town hall | 1995 | “The old homeland in memory, the new homeland Wendlingen am Neckar in thanks. Donated by the Federation of Expellees United Landsmannschaften, City Association Wendlingen am Neckar in 1995. 50 years after flight, deportation and expulsion. " | ||
Wernau (Neckar) | Cemetery, memorial stone | 1991 | “Traunau – Banat 1785–1991, in memory of the dead in the old and new homeland, the fallen and missing of the two world wars and the victims of violence.” - “Consequences of the war, 1944-1991: flight, deportation, disenfranchisement, expropriation, etc. Resettlement all over the world. ”-“ The community of Traunau was founded in 1785 by settlers from Lorraine, Saarland, Palatinate, Alsace a. A. founded. ”See Frumușeni . | ||
Wiesloch | Memorial stone on the site of a former zinc-silver mine | "The victims of the expulsion in 1945." | |||
Willstätt | Memorial stone on Town Hall Square in Legelshurst | 1986 | "200 years of Liebling parish." - "Faithful memory of the old homeland and our dead 1786–1986." - "Legelshurst Liebling sponsorship." | ||
Winnenden | Hill on upper Stöckach, end of Schillerstraße / corner of Ostlandstraße, Ostland memorial: 10 coats of arms of former home areas | 1965 | “Bridge to the home.” - “In memory of the old home in the east. Thanks to the new home. Erected by the Federation of the Winnenden Local Association of Displaced Persons on Homeland Day on September 12, 1965. " | ||
Winnenden | Cemetery, memorial stone | “In memory of our homeland and our dead. Municipality of Schowe 1736–1944. “See Vrbas (city) . | |||
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Winterbach (Remstal) | Memorial stone at the funeral hall in the cemetery | “We displaced fellow citizens remember our dead in awe at home, in the theaters of war, during flight and expulsion. Winterbach, Federation of Expellees, United Country Teams. " | |||
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Winterbach (Remstal) | Ostlandkreuz on the Hungerberg in the Remstal | "To honor the victims of war and displacement, to commemorate our homeland in the east, our new homeland in gratitude for peace, justice and a Europe united in freedom as a warning." | ||
Wolfach | Memorial plaque on the war memorial, coats of arms of Pomerania, Danzig, East Prussia, Wolfach, Lower Silesia, Posen-West Prussia, Upper Silesia, Sudetenland | “The darkness of uncertainty still lies over the fate of 24 sons in our city. We take them in our memory, together with the many fallen, missing and relatives of our fellow citizens who were expelled from East Germany. " | |||
Double folds | Memorial cross with 3 marble plaques in the park opposite the psychiatric hospital | 1983 | "The dead of home." - "The victims of violence and displacement." - "Only the cause is lost that is given up." |
Web links
Commons : Displacement monuments in Baden-Württemberg - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Memorials and memorials, Baden-Württemberg, Mannheim-Zwiefalten (Association of Expellees)
- Displacement monuments in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region and the surrounding area (Rhein-Neckar-Wiki)