Soviet Memorial (Braunschweig)
This Soviet memorial is located on part of the Braunschweig city cemetery , the so-called foreigner cemetery . It was built and inaugurated on November 13, 1945 on the initiative of the repatriation department of the city of Braunschweig .
Location and importance
The Soviet memorial in Braunschweig is located in the south on the foreigners cemetery, which can be reached from Brodweg. In the foreigners cemetery, which was occupied from 1939 to 1954, 1211 foreign nationals are buried, most of them are slave laborers and prisoners of war of Soviet (833) and Polish (351) origin. 698 of the foreign nationals were buried in individual graves. 513 people, most of the victims of the bomb attack on Braunschweig on October 15, 1944 , are buried in a mass grave.
At the foreigners cemetery there are other stone cenotaphs, the Polish and Ukrainian cenotaphs, which are located in the immediate vicinity of the Soviet cenotaph to the east and west of it.
Description of the monument
The memorial, which is made up of two side parts and a raised central part made of large Elm limestone cuboids, rests on a stone pedestal above the ground. The upper end of the memorial is formed by a cover profiled with a groove . The visible sides of the stone monument are smoothed.
The text Memorial to the Victims of Fascism in Cyrillic script is deepened in the middle, raised part of the monument . The Soviet symbols, hammer and sickle and five-pointed star , emerge from a circular, recessed surface. There are two lowered flags on each side - symbols of mourning for the fallen - carved into the stone. On a flag on the left part of the memorial, barely discernible remains of red paint (2014) indicate that the memorial was originally painted in color . On the right side part there are several small drill holes arranged in a sickle shape on a flag, which may have been used to attach a symbol.
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On the east side of the memorial, the following lettering in German can be read, which is heavily weathered:
For eternal memory
ad victim d. Fascism .
This monument was erected on the initiative of
the repatriation department of
the city of Braunschweig
and inaugurated
on November 13, 1945.
On the west side is the identical text in Cyrillic script.
literature
Frank Schumann : Monuments of Liberation: Traces of the Red Army in Germany. New Life, 2020, ISBN 978-3-355-01890-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ See text on the Soviet memorial in the east
- ↑ Ausländerfriedhof , on braunschweig.de, accessed on November 26, 2014
- ↑ Braunschweig - Ausländerfriedhof Am Brodweg , on volksbund.de, accessed on November 26, 2014
Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 13.4 " N , 10 ° 34 ′ 5.3" E