Soviet cemetery in the Belvedere palace gardens
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The Soviet cemetery in the Belvedere Palace Park in Weimar is a cemetery of honor for deceased members of the Red Army units stationed in the Weimar area with a size of 1.7 hectares. Another Soviet cemetery is located in the Park on the Ilm .
description
The center of this cemetery marked a simple, four-sided with the State Emblem of the Soviet Union -provided Obelisk of travertine . Wreaths and bouquets of flowers were placed at the obelisk in a ceremony on May 8 and other Red Army memorial days.
Individual and collective graves were dug around the obelisk and provided with simple tombstones. The cemetery area also includes oaks distributed over the area, which according to the original concept belong to an honorary grove.
While soldiers from the war were buried in the cemetery on the Ilm, there were not only soldiers but also civilians from the facilities of the occupation forces. This cemetery was used from 1946 to 1975, with around 2000 burials being carried out.
Administratively it was under Soviet administration or under the administration of Russia until 1994 . Today the facility is under the administration of the city of Weimar.
The cemetery is part of the Belvedere Palace and Park, as well as a historical monument of symbolic importance.
literature
- Roland Dressler, Jochen Klauss: Weimar cemeteries . Böhlau Verlag, Weimar 1996, ISBN 3-412-00496-0 , p. 176 f .
- Gitta Günther (Hrsg.): Weimar: Lexicon for city history . Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Nachf, Weimar 1998, ISBN 3-7400-0807-5 , cemeteries for members of the Soviet army, p. 127 f .
- Rolf Michaelis : Voices from the forest of the dead . In: The time . No. 30 , 1995. ( full text as digitized version)
Remarks
- ↑ Nazi era : The cemetery was laid out below the Rococo castle as early as 1937/38 at the behest of the Thuringian Gauleiter Fritz Sauckel and was intended for National Socialist dignitaries at that time. Funerals rarely took place. This circumstance made it easier for the Soviet occupying power to transfer them to the Weimar main cemetery in 1946 and then use them for themselves.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Belvedere Cemetery. (2010). (No longer available online.) In: Panoramino. Formerly in the original ; accessed in March 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 0.3 ″ N , 11 ° 20 ′ 53 ″ E