List of displaced persons in Baden-Württemberg (A – I)
This list of expellee monuments in Baden-Württemberg (A – I) 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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image | place | location | year | description |
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Bask | Forest cemetery: Transylvania, East Prussia, Silesia, Sudetenland, Pomerania, Danube Swabia | 1950/1984 | "The dead of the homeland." - "In 1945 the expulsion of 18,000,000 German people from their centuries-old homeland began - 3,000,000 died in the process." | |
Bask | Memorial cross on the cemetery in Unterkochen | 1964 | "The dead of home." | |
Alfdorf | Forecourt of the Catholic Church on Kirchstrasse | “We remember the lost homeland. Our dead who rest there and the fallen. " | ||
Asperg | graveyard | 1985 | “To commemorate the old homeland - to honor the dead - to thank the new homeland - to the living reminder 1945 - 1985.” - “East and West Prussia, Danzig, Pomerania, Silesia, Sudetenland, Transylvania, Bessarabia, Danube Swabia and other settlement areas . Erected by the expellees in Asperg on September 22, 1985. " | |
Backnang | Maubacher Höhe, stele by Oskar Kreibich | 1976 | "The old homeland in memory, the new homeland in gratitude." | |
Bad Saulgau | Memorial for the fallen of both world wars, the victims of the Nazi tyranny and the expellees who died | "In permanent memory of the more than two million dead from flight and expulsion between 1944 and 1947." | ||
Bad Schönborn | In the mortuary at the cemetery in Bad Langenbrücken, memorial of the community Para Butsch: Para Butsch , Vojvodina | 1969 | “In memory of the German settlement in Parabutsch founded in 1786 under Emperor Joseph II. Dedicated to the centenary celebration of the settlement in 1886. ”-“ The Parabutsch homeland and its dead! Fled, abducted, and expelled from 1944–45. Erected in honor of the survivors from all over the world on May 25, 1969. " | |
Bammental | Cemetery, Ostlandkreuz | 1958 | "The dead at home, the victims of displacement." | |
Bartenstein (Schrozberg) | Ostlandkreuz | 1953 | "Home is peace." | |
Besigheim | Wooden cross with memorial stone in the old cemetery | 1995 | "The dead of home." - "The victims of war, flight and displacement." | |
Beuren (near Nürtingen) | Entrance to the cemetery: Donauschwaben, Jarek | 1987 | “The survivors of the Danube Swabian community of Jarek from Yugoslavia built this facility in grateful memories. German settlers founded this place in 1787, which was home to their descendants until they were expelled in 1944. September 1987. ”-“ In memory of our dead. Jarek municipality. " | |
Biberach an der Riss | Wall relief on the city wall on the Schillerhöhe: Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Prussia, Transylvania, Danube region, Southeast Europe (1940–1946), Russia and the Baltic States (1998) | 1946/1998 | “Germans from Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Prussia, Transylvania, Danube region, Southeastern Europe 1940-1946. Expellees. "- 1998:" Germans from Russia and the Baltic States. " | |
Bietigheim-Bissingen | House of the Zuckmantler Heimatstube: Zuckmantel , Jeseníky Mountains | 1965 | “The expellees from Zuckmantel - Endersdorf - Hermannstadt - Ober- und Niedergrund Reihwiesen commemorate their home in the Jeseníky Mountains and thank the city of Bietigheim-Bissingen for taking over the sponsorship. Anno Domini 1965. " | |
Birkenfeld (Württemberg) | Memorial stone at the corner of Alte Pforzheimer Strasse and Berliner Strasse | "Loyalty to the homeland, to the victims of the East German homeland." | ||
Bisingen | Memorial stone for Nikolaus Lenau on the B 27 to Balingen: Banat | |||
Blaubeuren | Christofsgrund , Neuland (Sudetenland) | |||
Boeblingen | Forest cemetery (since 2009): Bohemia ( Schluckenau , Rumburg , Warnsdorf ) | 1981 | ||
Boeblingen | Cube on Berliner Platz (dismantled due to dilapidation): Wroclaw city arms, Berlin. - Freedom, law, unity. - Germany within the borders of 1937. | "We want to be a united people of brothers." | ||
Bönnigheim | Cemetery, memorial cross | 1954, 1995 | “The dead of the homeland.” - “In memory of the victims of war, flight and displacement. The expellees 1945–1995. " | |
Bopfingen | Spitalplatz, oak tree with memorial stone | Homeland Day 1985 | "1945–1985. This oak was planted on Homeland Day in memory of displacement and successful integration. " | |
Crailsheim | Cemetery of honor: East-West Prussia, Pomerania, Silesia, Sudetenland, Transylvania, Danube Swabia, Bessarabia | 1999 | ||
Crailsheim | Ostlandkreuz on Krekelberg | 1953/1988 | ||
Dietenheim | Memorial of the city of Dietenheim | |||
Ditzingen | Left at the entrance to the cemetery | "The dead of home." | ||
Donaueschingen | Memorial stone on the cemetery of honor | 1983 | “We remember the victims of flight and displacement and the dead in their distant homeland. The expellees. " | |
Donzdorf | Memorial in the cemetery | "We are only guests on earth and wander without rest, through various complaints to the eternal home." - "The memory of the dear dead of our home." | ||
Dossenheim | Memorial stone in front of the town hall | 1988 | “Our homeland in memory. After the Second World War, over 1100 displaced persons from the German-speaking eastern regions were accepted in Dossenheim in the years 1945–1946. " | |
Durmersheim | Memorial stone at the old cemetery on Speyerstraße | 1955 | “Our unforgettable homeland and its dead in 1945. Confederation of expelled German Durmersheim. August 1955. " | |
Ebersbach an der Fils | 7 m high wooden cross at the highest point near the cemetery | |||
Edingen-Neckarhausen | Memorial stone in the cemetery | 1968 | ||
Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen | Memorial stone in the Wetterkreuz development area, Luisenstrasse 44–46: Danube Swabia, Sudetenland | 1943 | ||
Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen | Cemetery, 5 old tombstones from the Batschka | “Siwatz in the Batschka 1786–1944. Neu-Siwatz was founded on May 1, 1786 under Franz Josef II as a purely German community. The 135 families of the Reformed faith settled here all came from the Palatinate, from Rheinhessen and from Alsace-Lorraine. At the time of the expulsion, the two sister communities in Neu-Siwatz and Alt-Siwatz had 4,982 German residents. The tombstones erected here from the cemetery of the Reformed parish in Neu-Siwatz remind of the settlement and expulsion of the Germans and the destruction of their churches and cemeteries. " | ||
Ehningen | Memorial stone on the wall of the old cemetery | 1955 | ||
Ehningen | Thank you plaque from 1000 displaced persons from Eastern and Southeastern Europe for the integration in 1946, at the corner of Hildrizhauser Strasse / Schloßstrasse, at the Protestant church | 1986 | ||
Eislingen / Fils | Nord Friedhof, Ostlandkreuz with memorial stone | 1955/1982 | ||
Elchingen | Memorial cross and stone slab on the edge of a housing estate on the outskirts of Neresheim | 1955 | ||
Ellwangen (Jagst) | Wooden cross (1958) and two boulders (1984) at the foot of the Galgenwald in Feldholz-Hochgericht - expellees and fallen soldiers from both World Wars from East and West Prussia, Danzig, Pomerania, Silesia, Sudetenland (Bohemia-Moravia), Sudeten-Silesia, Baltic States, Poland , Slovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania and Russia | 1958/1984 | ||
Eppingen | Cemetery in Waldstrasse, Ostlandkreuz (1957) with two memorial plaques (1970) | 1957/1970 | ||
Erbach (Danube) | Stone cross in the cemetery | 1956 | ||
Essingen (Württemberg) | Cemetery, memorial cross made of wrought iron with extracts from the charter of the German expellees , coat of arms of Transylvania, East Prussia, Silesia, Sudetenland, Pomerania, Danube Swabia (1959); Extension to the memorial against expulsion and for the right of home for all people (1980) | |||
Esslingen am Neckar | At the funeral hall of the Pliens cemetery in Zollberg: Cross of the East | 1953 | ||
Esslingen | Panoramastraße: Lenau bust, gathering of the Danube Swabians | 1954 | ||
Ettenheim | Catholic cemetery next to the church, high cross with two stone tablets (Baltenland, Buchenland, Brandenburg, Gdansk, East Prussia; Pomerania, Silesia, Sudetenland, Wartheland, West Prussia) | 1958/59 | ||
Ettlingen | Bruchhausen (Ettlingen) , cemetery: stone stele Kernei , Batschka | WILL FLOWERS WILL PAUSE | ||
Ettlingen | Cemetery: sandstone cross and stone slab | |||
Freiberg am Neckar | City hall interior, incorporation of 1000 people in Beihingen, Geisingen and Heutingsheim | |||
Freiburg in Breisgau | Hochkreuz at the main cemetery in Freiburg im Breisgau | |||
Freudental | Foyer of the town hall, reception of 572 displaced persons and refugees | 1985 | ||
Freudenstadt | Memorial stone in Courbevoie Park | 2001 | ||
Friedrichshafen | Green area on the Rotach, Lake Constance at the marina: 12 coats of arms (Russian-German, Baltic States, West Prussia, East Prussia, Sudetenland, Upper Silesia, Transylvania, Brandenburg, Danzig, Pomerania, Silesia, Danube Swabia) | |||
Friedrichshafen | Cemetery in Hochstrasse: Hochkreuz | |||
Geislingen an der Steige | Albhöhe Schildwacht: Ostland cross with bronze plaque, South Moravia | 1950/1992 | ||
Gerlingen | Silesian Forest School Reichenstein, Złoty Stok | 1989/1991 | ||
Gernsbach | Rumpelberg: coat of arms of eastern and central German provinces | 1960 | ||
Gernsbach | Corner of Hebelstrasse / Gottlieb-Klump-Strasse: Schlesierstein, coat of arms of Silesia | 1982 | ||
Giengen on the Brenz | Memorial at the funeral hall in the cemetery: Bohemian Forest, Danube Swabia, East and West Prussia, Pomerania, Silesia, Sudetenland | 1988 | ||
Giengen on the Brenz | Memorial plaque on the funeral hall, Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft | 1975 | ||
Went to the Fils | Forecourt of the Johanneskirche: memorial with a surrounding relief by Hans Neuwirth | 1983 | ||
Görwihl | Main entrance to the Hotzenwaldhalle: Saderlach , the only Alemannic village in the Banat | 1995 | ||
Goeppingen | Wall of the Mörikeanlage at the war memorial, memorial plaque | 1980 | ||
Goeppingen | Mörikeanlage: memorial bell (1721) for the Schönhengstgau | 1980 | ||
Goeppingen | Mörikeanlage: stele for the Banat Swabians | 1977 | ||
Großerlach | Cemetery, memorial to the Bessarabian Germans | 1976 | ||
Hechingen , the sponsor city for Oleśnica | Heiligkreuz cemetery: memorial stone of the city of Oels / Silesia | 1955 | ||
Hechingen | Cenotaph behind the collegiate church | 1955 | ||
Hechingen | Middle corridor of the 2nd floor in the new town hall: City arms of Oels, Silesian eagle | 1958 | ||
Hechingen | Middle corridor of the 1st floor in the new town hall: memorial plaque of the Oelser | 1964 | ||
Heidelberg | Kurfürsten-Anlage, Poststraße: Thanks to the 1200 expellees from Odrau for the admission in 1946 | 2002 | ||
Heidenheim an der Brenz | Parking lot on Schlesienstrasse: Rübezahl , Giant Mountains | 1966 | ||
Heilbronn | at the Hafenmarktturm: Memorial of the Expulsion (East Prussia, West Prussia, Pomerania, Lower Silesians, Upper Silesians, Sudeten Germans, Transylvanian Saxons, Danube Swabians, Bessarabian Germans, Dobrudschadeutsche, Germans from Russia) | |||
Heilbronn | Main cemetery (Heilbronn) : memorial stone | |||
Heilbronn | Main cemetery: Memorial of the Dobruja Germans | 1982 | ||
Heiningen (District of Göppingen) | Cemetery, memorial stone | 1979 | ||
Herbrechtingen | Anteroom of the cemetery chapel: Engelswald and Rosenthal in the Sudetenland | 1987 | ||
Herrenberg | Cemetery: memorial stone of the Altker community, Batschka | 1971 | ||
Herrenberg | Memorial cross in Gültstein | |||
Herrischried | The fate of the Banat Swabians | 2001 | ||
Heubach | Fritz-Spießhofer-Strasse: memorial stones of the German East | 1961 | ||
Horrheim | at the consecration hall in the cemetery: memorial cross made of stone | |||
Hüfingen | Fürstenberg: Home cross made of steel rails | 1993/94 | "In memory of the many fates and deaths of all those who were displaced." | |
Hüttlingen (Württemberg) | Cemetery: memorial cross with stone slab | 1957 | ||
Illingen (Württemberg) | Old cemetery: memorial cross on base | "1945. In memory of the distant home and its dead. The expellees. " | ||
Illingen | Old cemetery: fallen and missing from Johannesberg | 1983 | ||
Illingen | Forest cemetery: Stolzenburg memorial, Slimnic | 1991 |
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