Russian and Soviet war cemeteries in the Steinburg district

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In Steinburg is available in eight varieties Russian and Soviet war graves of both world wars. These graves are very often on the very edge of a cemetery and are difficult to find. The graves law in Germany guarantees the inviolability of these graves. That is why they can sometimes be found as individual graves in otherwise cleared burial fields. The Federal Republic bears the costs of tending the grave .

image	place	Location note 1	address	Weblink note 2
	Brokdorf	(Location)	Dorfstrasse community cemetery (grave complex)	Grave of a Soviet victim of World War II
	Hohenlockstedt	(Location)	Finnish Allee Waldfriedhof (WWI war cemetery)	Grave site for twelve Russian prisoners of war of the First World War. Thirteen names
	Hohenlockstedt	(Location)	Finnish Allee Waldfriedhof (grave complex)	Grave site for five Soviet prisoners of war and slave labor.
	Itzehoe	(Location)	Brunnenstrasse Alter Friedhof (WWI war cemetery)	Grave site for 16 Russian prisoners of war of the First World War.
	Itzehoe	(Location) (location)	Brunnenstrasse Old Cemetery (grave complex)	Grave site for 27 Soviet prisoners of war and slave labor.
	Kellinghusen	(Location)	Kastanienallee municipal cemetery (WWI war cemetery)	Grave site for eight Russian prisoners of war of the First World War.
	Kellinghusen	(Location)	Kastanienallee community cemetery (grave complex)	Grave of a Soviet victim of World War II.
	brim	(Location)	Birkenweg community cemetery (grave complex)	Grave of a Soviet victim of World War II.
	Wacken	(Location)	Hauptstrasse Evangelical Cemetery (WWI war cemetery)	Grave site for 13 Russian prisoners of war of the First World War.
	Wacken	(Location)	Hauptstrasse Evangelical Cemetery (grave complex)	Burial site for nine unknown Soviet victims of World War II.
	Wilster	(Location)	Bischofer Weg community cemetery (grave complex)	Grave site for two Soviet victims of World War II.
	Schenefeld	(Location)	Holstenstrasse Evangelical Cemetery (grave complex)	Grave of a Soviet victim of World War II.
Cannot be found Note 3	Glückstadt		Catholic cemetery (grave complex)	Grave site for nine Soviet victims of World War II.

^{Note 1}The coordinates come from the GPS data of the camera used

^{Note 2} The number of victims and the location of the graves are often imprecise

^{Note 3}According to information from the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial , there was only one grave: Vladimir Kusniezow. † September 21, 1942

Web links

• Soviet war cemeteries in Germany