Polygons Cemetery (Strasbourg)

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The Polygone Cemetery ( French Cimetière du Polygone ) is a cemetery in Strasbourg-Neuhof in Alsace (France).

With its 2.7 hectares, it is one of the smaller cemeteries in the Alsatian metropolis. It was created in 1899 primarily for the districts west of the Strasbourg sports airfield Polygone ( Aérodrome de Strasbourg-Neuhof ) and the Route du Polygone or Route d'Altenheim and east of the Ill . Here you will find the graves of the writer Jules Case , the resistance fighters Marcel Weinum and Raoul Clainchard and the painter Henri Loux , who was best known for his motifs for the stoneware factory Utzschneider & Cie in Saargemünd on a tableware series first published in 1902 in Alsace is still very popular today.

Coordinates: 48 ° 33 ′ 8 ″  N , 7 ° 46 ′ 4 ″  E