List of evacuation monuments in Hessen (L – P)

This list of displaced monuments in Hesse (L – P) shows the displaced monuments in Hessian towns and communities from Lämmerspiel to Petersberg.

Lists

L-P

image	place	location	year	description
0	Lahn valley	On the Zeißenberg	1949	Memorial, altar with crucifix "We remember the dear relatives who rest in our old homeland."
0	Lampertheim	Mühlgraben in Hofheim	1951, 1984	Displacement Cross “In memory of our dear dead in our homeland and the victims of displacement. Erected by the expellees in Hofheim / Ried. May 1951. "
0	Langen (Hesse)	Oberlinden sideline settlement	1965	Memorial stone with linden tree “Planted in 1965, year of human rights. Association of Expelled Germans. State Association of Hesse. "
0	Long	Lindenplatz	1995	Memorial stone “Langen gave us a new home. We thank you for this 1945–1995. "
0	Langgöns	Sudetenstrasse in Niederkleen	1978	Memorial stone, coat of arms of East Prussia, Pomerania, Sudetenland, Silesia, Transylvania "Don't forget the German East."
0	Langgöns	Cemetery, memorial and memorial hall	1983	Memorial plaque “In memory. In love for home, hope in the heart. They gave their lives in loyalty and duty. Don't forget them! Association of Expellees Langgöns 1983. "
0	Langgöns	Corner of Niederhofenstrasse / Jahnstrasse	1985	Memorial stone “We remember our home village Groß-Dittersdorf, which was in the district of Brün Sudetenland, now CSSR, with sadness. After the expulsion in 1946 it had to give way to a military training area, so it disappeared from the map. It was 8 km northeast of the Oder source. We thank the Langgöns community for taking over the sponsorship for our lost home village. The stone was created in 1985 by the surviving village community, which lives scattered throughout Germany. "
	Langgöns	Altvaterplatz	1989	Memorial of the expulsion “This memorial was erected to commemorate the expulsion of the German population beyond the Oder and Neisse and from the Sudetenland. There were around 15 million Germans who had lived in these areas for centuries and suddenly had to leave their homeland. Mass displacement began as early as 1944 and continued to grow in the years that followed. It was carried out ruthlessly and inhumanly. More than 2 million Germans found their cruel deaths. May this memorial serve as a reminder and help ensure that such crimes are never repeated. The main areas of displacement are shown and listed on the relief map opposite. In addition, most of the German population was expelled from their settlement areas in Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia. These areas cannot be shown cartographically here. The right panel shows the Altvaterturm, which stood on the Altvater 1492 m above sea level, the highest mountain in the East Sudetenland. It was the symbol of this area and serves as a symbol for all displacement areas. Association of Expellees in 1989. "
0	Langgöns	Edge of the forest at the Limes		Memorial stone “Altvaterturm site. Landmark of the East Sudetenland. Memorial of the Expulsion. "
0	Lauterbach (Hesse)	graveyard	1949	Commemorative cross "To the victims of forced eviction." - "Dedicated by the Lauterbach district association in September 1949."
0	Lauterbach	town hall	1986	Commemorative plaque “6000 Germans, expellees from the separated eastern areas, resettlers from the Eastern European settlement areas and refugees from Central Germany found a new home in Lauterbach and its districts after World War II. They and their descendants play a major role in the further development of our district town. "
0	Lich	Cemetery in Eberstadt	1995	Memorial stone “In memory of our beautiful homeland in the Sudetenland - North Moravia - Jeseníky Mountains. Home district Römerstadt. Home meeting Lobnig – Tillendorf. May 1995. "
0	Lich	city wall	1987	Memorial stone "We commemorate our homeland in the Sudetenland, Silesia, Pomerania, East and West Prussia and in all other displaced areas and are committed to the charter of German expellees dated August 5, 1950. Federation of Expellees Local Association Lich 1987."
	Limburg on the Lahn	graveyard	1950	Memorial cross, coats of arms of Silesia, Sudetenland, East and West Prussia "In memory of our dead in our homeland in 1950."
0	Linden (Hesse)	Entrance to the cath. church	1961	Commemorative plaques "To the victims of the war and the expulsion of 1939 + 1945."
0	Lindenfels	Mountain cemetery	1952	Memorial stone “To the dead of home. Local association of the expellees Lindenfels 1952. "
0	Lindenfels	On the caterpillar stone in winter box	1988	Memorial stone “Die Neubürgerlinde, dedicated to the residents of Winterkasten in gratitude. The expellees who have settled here since 1946. BdV 1987. "
0	Lohfelden	Catholic Church Tower	1989	Commemorative plaque “In memory of the victims of displacement and the dead resting in their homeland. Sudeten German country team. "
0	Löhnberg	Sudetenstrasse	1954, 1971	Memorial stone “To the dead of home. Expulsion 1945. "
0	Lorsch	graveyard	1955	Memorial cross with stone slab, donated by the city of Lorsch “To commemorate the dead of the homeland, the victims of the expulsion. Association of Expelled Germans. "
0	Mainburg	Cemetery in Zellhausen	1954	Memorial cross “In memory of the deceased, fallen and the victims of displacement. The expellees from Zellhausen in 1954. "
0	Main valley	Cemetery in Dörnigheim		Hochkreuz "The dead of the old homeland."
0	Marburg	Main cemetery	1964	Memorial stone "The displaced people their dead."
0	Melsungen	Melsungen Castle	1990	Displaced persons - milestone, coats of arms of East Prussia, Pomerania, Silesia, Sudetenland “Thanks to the citizens of the city and district of Melsungen, who took in 9,953 refugees and Germans displaced from their homeland between 1945 and 1946. Sudetenland - Eger 350 km, East Prussia - Königsberg 980 km, West Prussia - Marienburg 730 km, Pomerania - Stettin 550 km. Dedicated by the expellees on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the city of Melsungen in 1990. Erected in 1990, in which Germany united, borders no longer separate us in Europe. "
0	Melsungen	Tower of the city wall in the palace garden	1949	Reminder plaque “Pleasure and contractions devotional stay! Eichendorff. Erected in 1949 by the 99s out of love for home and the joy of nature. "
0	Melsungen	Village community center in Obermelsungen	1996	Memorial stone "In memory of those displaced 50 years ago."
0	Moerfelden	Forest cemetery	1956	Memorial stone “To the dead of home. The victims of displacement. "
0	Moerfelden	Walldorf cemetery		Memorial cross “In memory of our deceased in our unforgettable homeland and those who fell in World War I and II. Dedicated by the expellees in Walldorf. "
0	Moerlenbach	At the memorial for the fallen, in front of the cemetery		Commemorative plaque “The expellees commemorate the victims of the expulsion from the German eastern regions after the Second World War. They just had to lose their lives because they were German. "-" Silesia, Sudetenland, West Prussia, East Prussia, Pomerania, Memelland, Romania, Yugoslavia, Hungary. "
0	Moerlenbach	graveyard		Memorial cross "Our dead at home."
0	Moerlenbach	Karlsbader Strasse		Egerland fountain, coat of arms of Eger, Neudeck, Marienbad, Karlsbad "Egerland fountain."
0	Mühlheim am Main	Lamb game		Memorial cross "To the dead of home."
0	Mühlheim am Main	Cemetery in Lammerspiel	1969	Memorial "To the dead of home."
0	Nauheim	graveyard		Memorial cross "To the dead of home."
0	Naumburg (Hesse)		1953	Memorial stone with plaque "The dead of the East German homeland admonish."
0	Nentershausen (Hesse)	White hazel		Memorial cross
0	Neu-Isenburg	Old graveyard	1963	Memorial stone "Stay, remember your home."
0	Neukirchen (Knull)	graveyard	1950, 1987	Memorial cross with stone plaque “To commemorate the dead, duty to the living. 1950. The expellees in the district of Ziegenhain. "
0	Nidda	City cemetery	1984	Memorial stone “In memory of our dead. Eghalanda Gmoi z 'Nidda. August 18, 1984. "
	Niedernhausen	Cemetery in Niederseelbach	0	0
0	Nieder-Weisel	graveyard	1954	Hochkreuz "To the dead of home."
0	Upper auditorium	graveyard	1950, 1987	Memorial cross made of spruce with a metal crown of thorns "To the dead of the old homeland 1950."
0	Upper auditorium	graveyard	1995	Memorial, coat of arms of the East German provinces “In 1945/46, over 14 million Germans were expelled from their traditional East German homeland; over 2.1 million lost their lives. In memory of the East German homeland, the dead in the homeland, the victims of the expulsion. Association of Displaced Persons Oberaula, October 1995. "
0	Ober-Mörlen	graveyard	1960	Memorial cross "To the dead of home."
0	Ober-Ramstadt	Church of Our Lady	1955	Memorial, coat of arms of West Prussia, East Prussia, Upper Silesia, Lower Silesia, the Sudetenland, Danube Swabia, East Brandenburg "To the dead of home."
	Oberursel (Taunus)	Forest cemetery	1981	Bronze sculpture, fleeing mother with three children "1945/1946 Escape and expulsion from home in the east."
0	Oestrich-Winkel	South-east corner of the cemetery in Hallgarten (Rheingau)	1974	Cenotaph "Our dead at home." - "The dead from Rothmühl."
0	Oestrich-Winkel	Corner Rebhang / Rothmühlstrasse	1984	Mileage stone , coat of arms of Rothmühl "Rothmühl 810 km."
0	Oestrich-Winkel	Cemetery in Mittelheim	2002	Memorial stone "Erected for the glory of God in memory of the dead in our East German homeland in 1945."
0	Petersberg (Hesse)	graveyard		Memorial stone, names of the missing and fallen “Verm. u. found Relatives of the expellees. "
0	Petersberg	Gotzenhof		Memorial stone "In memory of the dead and missing due to the expulsion from their homeland in 1945."
0	Petersberg	Götzenhof, below the Paul Gerhardt chapel	2003	Wayside shrine by Helmut Grimm , coats of arms of Silesia, Pomerania, Sudetenland and East Prussia, relief with expellees "What you did to the least of my brothers - you did it to me."

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Remarks

↑ donated by the local advisory board and displaced persons of the city of Melsungen
↑ donated by Anton and Gisela Ritschny from Tropau in Eastern Sudetenland.
↑ donated by the city of Oestrich-Winkel

[1] ted by the local advisory board and displaced persons of the city of Melsungen

[2] ted by Anton and Gisela Ritschny from Tropau in Eastern Sudetenland.

[3] ted by the city of Oestrich-Winkel