Neuburxdorf military cemetery

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Neuburxdorf military cemetery
Plaque with names of the dead and picture of the cemetery in earlier times
History of the Neuburxdorf military cemetery

The military cemetery Neuburxdorf (also: POW cemetery Neubuxdorf) is located in the municipal cemetery in the district Neubuxdorf of Bad Liebenwerda and Muhlberg / Elbe . The dead from the Wehrmacht prisoner-of- war camp located 1.5 kilometers from the main camp IV B of the Second World War are buried here.

The dead

About 3000 prisoners of war died in main camp IV B during World War II.

600 dead rest in the cemetery, which are listed alphabetically and by country on bronze nameplates. The first burial was in November 1939. The burials were documented in a funeral book. The Western Allies dead prisoners of war were buried in individual graves, the dead prisoners of war of the Soviet Union were buried in mass graves. The dead came from America, Denmark, England, France, Greece, Italy, Belgium, Yugoslavia, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, India and the Soviet Union.

Cemetery design

The central monument was erected during the war based on designs by the French prisoner-of-war sculptor Georges Bacincoust . The city of Liebenwerda built a wall around it in a semicircle. The names of the deceased have been documented on bronze plaques on this wall since 2007. One of the panels shows a picture of the cemetery in earlier times. The victims who were transferred to their home countries are listed on a board. In the cemetery chapel there is a triptych by Volker Pohlenz (1995), which impressively thematizes the burial of prisoners at the Neuburxdorf military cemetery.

Commemoration

Every year the members of the Camp Mühlberg Campaign Group and the former inmates / relatives of the POW camp and the later Soviet special camp Mühlberg commemorate the dead.

Additional beds / re-beds

The dead from the mass grave for Soviet prisoners in Neuburxdorf were reburied in the Soviet cemetery of honor Elsterwerda in the city cemetery of Elsterwerda . The dead Poles and Serbs from the Zeithain camp were reburied in the Neuburxdorf military cemetery in 2004.

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See also

Individual evidence

  1. Karsten Bear: The dichotomy of history. In: Lausitzer Rundschau from September 12, 2005.
  2. (fr) Laurent Guillet: Il s'appelait Joseph. Editions Laurent Guillet, Limerzel 2011, ISBN 978-2-918588-03-0 , pp. 130-131. (Camp stations of a French prisoner of war until his death).
  3. Information board in the cemetery. See picture Military Cemetery Tafel1.JPG
  4. Information board in the cemetery. See picture Military Cemetery Tafel1.JPG
  5. ^ Frank Hilbert: Eleven bronze plaques for the military cemetery. In: Lausitzer Nachrichten of August 8, 2007
  6. Volker Pohlenz on leipzig-lese.de
  7. Karsten Bear: The dichotomy of history. In: Lausitzer Rundschau from September 12, 2005.
  8. ^ Poles and other prisoners. On the website of the Zeithain Memorial Grove.

Web links

Commons : Friedhof Neuburxdorf  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 56.1 ″  N , 13 ° 18 ′ 5 ″  E