Forest cemetery (Kritzow)
The forest cemetery near the Mecklenburg town of Kritzow is located in the municipality of Langen Brütz in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district . The mausoleum in the cemetery for the son of the Kritzow estate owner family Hansen, who died early, was laid out in 1925. The immediate surroundings were also used for burials in the period that followed. The forest cemetery with stone wall and the mausoleum is on the district's list of monuments .
The cemetery is located about 900 meters east-northeast of the Kritzower manor on the eastern slope of the Uhuberg in a wooded area. Unpaved forest roads lead to him.
The mausoleum was laid out in 1925 by the Kritzow family of landowners for their only son, WFA Hansen (1896–1925), who died early. The estate, which had been owned by the Bülow family for a long time , became the property of the Hansen family in 1924. The mausoleum was initially surrounded with a simple fence. In April 1945, fallen Wehrmacht soldiers were buried in front of the mausoleum on the Kritzower corridor. The residents of the village continued to use the facility as a cemetery, which they surrounded with a wall of hewn field stones. The names of many families who fled at the end of the Second World War and come from the regions of Eastern Pomerania and East Prussia can be found on the gravestones.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Information board on site
Coordinates: 53 ° 39 ′ 51.1 ″ N , 11 ° 35 ′ 54 ″ E