Soviet cemetery of honor in Ilmpark
The Soviet Cemetery of Honor in the Park on the Ilm is about 0.7 hectares in size. It was laid out in the summer of 1945 for soldiers of the Red Army . The city of Weimar is the sponsor of this facility next to the entrance to the park cave and the Liszt monument in Weimar .
This facility is subject to war graves protection . In the middle of the cemetery there is a memorial stone which, in addition to the memory of individual fates, also serves as a place for documentation and as a reminder for visitors.
Not far from Belvedere is another such facility, the Soviet cemetery in the Belvedere palace gardens .
history
Both facilities were set up by the Soviet military administration after the American troops had withdrawn. A total of 649 members of the Red Army who died in the war or who died as a result of the war were buried here in 1945/1946.
After 1946 this cemetery was no longer occupied. It was supposed to be the final resting place for the 8th Guards Army , which made the sacrificial journey from Stalingrad to Berlin . The Belvedere cemetery was occupied until the 1970s.
literature
- Roland Dressler, Jochen Klauss: Weimar cemeteries. Böhlau, Weimar 1996, ISBN 3-412-00496-0 , pp. 174f.
- Cemeteries for members of the Soviet army. In: Gitta Günther (Ed.): Weimar. Lexicon on city history. Böhlau, Weimar 1998, ISBN 3-7400-0807-5 , p. 127f.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Roland Dressler, Jochen Klauss: Weimar cemeteries. Böhlau, Weimar 1996, p. 174f.
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 29.7 " N , 11 ° 19 ′ 53.7" E