List of evacuation monuments in Hesse (R – Z)

This list of displaced monuments in Hesse (R – Z) shows the displaced monuments in Hessian towns and communities from Rabenau to Zwingenberg.

Lists

• List of displaced persons in Hessen (A – F)
• List of displaced persons in Hessen (G – K)
• List of evacuation monuments in Hessen (L – P)

R-Z

image	place	location	year	description
0	Rabenau (Hesse)	Kesselbach	1953	Ostlandkreuz "Loyalty to my homeland."
0	Reichelsheim (Odenwald)		1953	Memorial stone “BVD The unforgotten home and our dead. Reichelsheim i. Odw. "
	Riedstadt	Wolf throats	1953	Memorial stone “To the dead of home. BVD Wolfskehlen 1953. "
0	Riedstadt	Cemetery in Crumstadt	1964	Memorial stone “Memorial of the Expellees. Dedicated to all new citizens. Crumstadt municipality 1964. "
0	Riedstadt	Cemetery in Goddelau	0	Memorial stone
0	Rimbach (Odenwald)	Stairway in the town hall		Commemorative publication “The Rimbach community gave the expelled Germans a new home. God's earth is everywhere. "
0	Rimbach	Cemetery in Zotzenbach	1998	Memorial stone “In memory of our dead in and far from home. The expellees, local group Zotzenbach. "
	Rimbach	Drum
	Rodheim before the height	graveyard	1953	Memorial cross "Our dead and the unforgettable homeland. 1953. The expellees. "
0	Rotenburg on the Fulda	Cat head height	1950	Memorial “White Cross”, 10 stone blanks with memorial plaques “Our dead. The expellees. ”- Vistula-Warthe, Danzig-Memelland, East and West Prussia, Pomerania, Transylvania, Silesia, Sudeten-Germans, Hungary-Germans, Yugoslavia-Germans, Russian-Germans
0	Rotenburg		1994	Memorial stone "Russian Germans."
0	Rüsselsheim am Main	graveyard	1995	Memorial stone “15 million Germans were expelled in 1945/48. In memory of their homeland in the east and their dead. One time to commemorate all victims of war, flight and displacement. Association of Expellees, Local Association Rüsselsheim and the City of Rüsselsheim in May 1995. "
0	Schlitz (Vogelsbergkreis)	town hall	1982	Commemorative plaque "In the years after the Second World War, over 2500 displaced persons from the Sudetenland, Silesia, Pomerania, East Prussia and other German settlement areas in Eastern and Southeastern Europe found acceptance in the town of Schlitz and the Schlitzerland."
0	Schöneck (Hesse)	Widderhalle in Oberdorfelden	1988	Memorial stone “Dittersdorf ad Feistritz is our home in East Sudetenland. It will not be forgotten by us displaced persons. We thank our sponsoring community Schöneck for this memorial site in 1988. "
0	Schöneck	Cemetery in Büdesheim	1954	Memorial stone "The dead in their homeland."
0	Scots (city)	graveyard	1951	Memorial cross "Do not forget the dead of our stolen homeland!"
0	Schwalmstadt	Cemetery in Treysa	1950/51	Kreuz des Ostens, bronze plaque (1987) "In memory of the flight and expulsion in 1945. In memory of the dead, as a warning to the living."
0	Schwalmstadt	District building in Ziegenhain Landgraf-Philipp-Strasse 19	1962	Stele with coats of arms of East Prussia, West Prussia, Pomerania, Brandenburg, Lower Silesia, Upper Silesia, Sudetenland, Danzig "Tilsit 950 km, Königsberg 850 km, Marienburg 730 km, Elbing 760 km, Stettin 440 km, Kolberg 550 km, Frankfurt / Oder 385 km, Küstrin 400 km, Wroclaw 530 km, Liegnitz 465 km, Katowice 670 km, Opole 585 km, Eger 225 km, Reichenberg 390 km, Danzig 720 km, Memel 970 km. ” Between 2010 and 2014, the monument was“ sidelined ”.
0	Schwalmtal (Hesse)	Hopfgarten	1949	Memorial cross “Loyalty to the dead of the lost homeland. The expellees. Hopfgarten 1949. "
0	Seligenstadt	graveyard	1958	Memorial column “To the victims of wars, violence and displacement. God's peace. "
0	Seligenstadt	Kattelerstraße 90 in Klein-Welzheim		Memorial chapel “Our dead. The expellees. "
0	Seligenstadt	Triebweg in Froschhausen	1950	Memorial cross "In memory of the expellees in 1945/1946."
0	Söhrewald	Cemetery in Wellerode	1983	Memorial stone “The dead at home and the victims of displacement. Sudeten German Landsmannschaft Wellerode 1983. "
0	Solms	Heuerberg in Oberbiel	1949	Memorial cross "To the dead of home."
0	Solms	Cemetery in Burgsolms	1978	Memorial stone “The Victims of the Expulsion 1945–1946. BdV Solms 1978. "
0	Somborn (open court)	graveyard	1984	Memorial cross, plaque “In memory of our dead in our old homeland. The fallen of 19391945 and the victims of the expulsion won. from the local association of expellees. "
0	Somborn	graveyard	1999	Commemorative plaque “1939–1945. In memory of the fallen of brown soaps in North Moravia-Sudetenland. 113 soldiers fell. 8 civilians were victims of displacement. We would have loved to live like you, but we had to die young. Don't forget us. "
0	Stockstadt on the Rhine	graveyard	1970, 2005	Memorial of the Expellees (Franz Jahn), memorial plaque (2000) “15 million Germans were expelled from their homeland after the Second World War. From East Germany - East Prussia, East Pomerania, East Brandenburg, Silesia - from the Sudetenland and from the German settlement areas of Eastern and Southeastern Europe. This memorial was erected in memory of their homeland and to commemorate the more than 2 million dead who fled, deported and expelled. Association of Expellees - Stockstadt am Rhein community November 2000. "
0	Trebur	graveyard	1950	Memorial cross “To the dead of home. 1950. "
0	Trebur	Honor cemetery in Geisenheim	1950	Memorial stone
0	Trebur	graveyard		Memorial cross “To the dead of home. The victims of displacement. "
	Treysa (Schwalmstadt)	railway station	2014	Memorial plaque commemorating the arrival of almost 30,000 people displaced from their Sudeten German homeland and their new beginning in Northern Hesse.
	Treysa (Schwalmstadt)	graveyard	1950/51	Kreuz des Ostens, bronze plaque (1987) "In memory of the flight and expulsion in 1945. In memory of the dead, as a warning to the living."
	Usingen	In front of Usinger Castle 50 ° 20 ′ 3 ″  N , 8 ° 32 ′ 14.2 ″  E	2002	Memorial stone "As a reminder and reminder of the flight and expulsion of Germans from the Eastern Territories 1945-1946."
0	Vellmar	Europaplatz	1996	Memorial stone "In memory of the expulsion of 14 million Germans in 1945/46."
0	Viernheim	graveyard	1951	Memorial cross "To the dead of home."
0	Viernheim	Altrohlauer Platz	2002	Memorial stone “In memory of the Altrohlau sponsorship near Karlsbad in the Egerland region and of the people displaced in 1945/1946 who made a new home in Viernheim and elsewhere. Viernheim - sponsored town of Altrohlau. "
0	Villmar	Treisfurter Hof	1982	Bailiwick Chapel
	Villmar	Marble bridge over the Lahn	1996	Johannes Nepomuk statue “Johannes von Nepomuk. In memory of the expulsion from 1946–1996. "
0	Volkmarsen	On the sheath	1951, 1988	Cross of the East "Our home."
0	Waechtersbach	Front garden of Wächtersbach Castle	1956	Expellees Cross “Lord lead us home! The dead of the East German homeland. "
0	Waechtersbach	Castle Park	2005	Memorial stone “In memory of the 2.5 million victims of flight and displacement from 1945–1947. 15 million people lost their homes and their property. Thanks to the citizens of Wächtersbach, who helped over 2400 displaced persons and refugees from the Sudetenland, Silesia, West and East Prussia, Pomerania, East Brandenburg and the settlement areas in East and Southeast Europe to find a new home here. Erected in 2005. BdV-OV Wächtersbach. "
0	Weilburg	graveyard	1951	Memorial cross "The dead in their homeland."
0	Weilburg	Green area on Freystädter Straße	1966	Memorial stone “To the dead of his sponsorship group Freystadt Nd. Silesia in memory. The Oberlahnkreis. "
0	Weilburg	Weilburg station		Commemorative plaque “On February 4, 1946, the first transport of expellees in Hesse arrived at this station. He came from Kuttenplan in the Egerland. He was followed by 294 other transports from the Sudetenland. After 60 years, this plaque is intended to remind of the hardship of that time. Weilburg. February 4, 2006. "
0	Weilburg	Sideline housing estate on Friedrich-Ebert-Straße		Memorial stone "Agricultural part-time settlement Weilburg. Established 1953–1957 in 42 settler positions and until 1976 with new individual positions for expellees from the areas: Sudetenland 43, Silesia 3, East Prussia 3, West Prussia 1, Slovakia 1, Wartheland 1. "
	Weilburg	Outer wall, old cemetery, Frankfurter Strasse, below the Catholic Church	2017	Commemorative plaque “Memorial of the displaced persons from Györsövényház, Hungary. 521 people arrived at the train station in Weilburg on June 5, 1946 and were settled in the Limburg-Weilburg district. The surnames of the expellees are listed on the board. The memorial was built through monetary and material donations from the community of interests of displaced persons. Unveiling of the board in June 2017, completion (access) October 2017. "
0	Weilmünster	In front of the Catholic Church	1955	Memorial cross “To the dead in a foreign country and home. Homeland."
0	Wetzlar	Garbenheim	1966/67	Cenotaph "The Dead of the German East."
0	Wiesbaden	Auringen	1979	Christdorf memorial stone "Christdorf 1269, East Sudeten 1979."
0	Wiesbaden	Hessian University for Police and Administration	1993	Sudeten German memorial stone
0	Wiesbaden	Kranichstrasse in Kohlheck	2001/02	Memorial stone “Unforgettable home! The victims of the expulsion in 1945. The country teams in the Association of Expellees. "
0	Wiesbaden	Leutelt-Platz in Dotzheim	1967	Gustav Leutelt memorial stone “Gustav Leutelt 1860–1947. Poet of the Jizera Mountains. "
0	Witzenhausen	Road from Werleshausen to Bornhagen , near the former inner-German border		Memorial stone “Wanderer! Stay! Remember here in mourning u. Wistfulness of the stolen German lands: Pomerania-East Prussia-West Prussia-Silesia u. of the Sudetenland. Far be it from this stone to retaliate. But 15 million Germans left their centuries-old homeland, without any belongings. Good to save, chased away. An unprecedented event in world history marked by mad hatred. ”-“ Lord, forgive those who wanted it or approved it! ”-“ We greet our brothers and sisters across the enforced border and the like. hope like them that the days of this frontier will soon be numbered. O Lord, forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. "
0	Wolfersheim	graveyard	1957, 1978	Memorial cross "Our dead at home 1945–1946."
0	Wolfersheim	Cemetery in Wohnbach	1953, 1986	Memorial cross "To the dead of the homeland 1953."
0	Wöllstadt	Cemetery in Ober-Wöllstadt	0	Memorial stone "The dead of home and the expulsion."
0	Wolfhagen	Ofenberg	1965	Memorial with 3 stone crosses and 12 stones (Baltic Germans, East Prussia, West Prussia, Silesia, Pomerania, Sudetenland, Brandenburg, Weichsel-Warthe, Southeast Germans , Danzig) "Our East German homeland and its dead in permanent memory."
0	Wolfhagen	District youth home		Signpost "Stettin 455 km, Königsberg 850 km, Danzig 720 km, Stralsund 400 km, Frankfurt / Oder 370 km, Dresden 300 km, Breslau 560 km, Hindenburg 700 km."
	Ziegenhain (Schwalmstadt)	District house Ziegenhain, Landgraf-Philipp-Strasse 19	1962	Stele with coats of arms of East Prussia, West Prussia, Pomerania, Brandenburg, Lower Silesia, Upper Silesia, Sudetenland, Danzig "Tilsit 950 km, Königsberg 850 km, Marienburg 730 km, Elbing 760 km, Stettin 440 km, Kolberg 550 km, Frankfurt / Oder 385 km, Küstrin 400 km, Wroclaw 530 km, Liegnitz 465 km, Katowice 670 km, Opole 585 km, Eger 225 km, Reichenberg 390 km, Danzig 720 km, Memel 970 km. ” Between 2010 and 2014, the monument was“ sidelined ”.
0	Zierenberg	Station green area	0	Commemorative plaque to commemorate the arrival of several transport trains of the displaced Sudeten Germans and their new beginning far from home.
0	Zwingenberg (Bergstrasse)	Funeral hall in the cemetery		Memorial stone “In memory of the dead of home. 1945. The expellees. "

See also

• Flight and expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe 1945–1950

Web links

• Memorials and memorials, Hesse: Lindenfels – Zwingenberg (BdV)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "In the bitter pain of death" (2013)
2. ↑ More details and pictures: [www.Mitteleuropa.de/QR001]
3. ↑ Wolfhagen, Memorial of the Expellees
4. ↑ More details and pictures: [www.Mitteleuropa.de/QR005]

Remarks

1. ↑ Donated by BdV Rotenburg 1994.
2. ↑ Until 1981 on the Michelsbacher Höhe
3. ↑ Donated by the Freigericht-Somborn local association. Restored in 2002
4. ↑ Donated by the expellees from Braunseifen
5. ↑ Created by Uwe Kunze, donated by BdV Vellmar, the Sudetendeutschen Landsmannschaft, the settler community of Vellmar and the city of Vellmar.
6. ↑ Donated by the city of Viernheim
7. ↑ Donated by the East Prussian Landsmannschaft and the BdV local association in Wächtersbach
8. ^ Established by the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft local group Dotsheim-Kohlheck