Russenfriedhof (Göppingen)
The Russian cemetery in Göppingen commemorates the coalition wars and their consequences.
Russian prisoners of war , presumably from the battle of Hollabrunn and Schöngrabern and the battle of Austerlitz , dragged typhus to Göppingen in December 1805, despite a control post set up at today's Sun Bridge .
The Göppingen senior medical officer Dr. Friedrich Hartmann took over the fight against the epidemic, when he fell ill himself, the personal physicians of the Württemberg King Dr. Jäger and Dr. Hop growers sent to support him.
By the spring of 1806, hundreds of deceased Russians were buried in a mass grave in what is now the Oberholz district.
In March 2010, at the instigation of the local Lions Club, a monument by the Göppingen artist Jörg Zimmermann was unveiled on the site.
literature
- Karl Kirschmer: The History of the City of Göppingen. Part II. (1782-1918) , self-published, Göppingen 1952, page 47f.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 42 ′ 50.5 " N , 9 ° 40 ′ 29.6" E