Name: Kritzow Forest Cemetery
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Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

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Kritzow Forest Cemetery

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Langen Brütz

Kritzow Forest Cemetery

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Location: Langen Brütz, Ludwigslust-Parchim, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

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1. Rohenberger Mill – Kritzow Forest Cemetery loop from Zittow

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2. Canoe Launch on the Warnow – Kritzow Forest Cemetery loop from Zittow

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3. Kritzow Forest Cemetery loop from Wendorf

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JR56

August 9, 2022

The forest cemetery near the Mecklenburg town of Kritzow is in the municipality of Langen Brütz in the district of Ludwigslust-Parchim. The mausoleum in the cemetery for the son of the Kritzow landowning family Hansen, who died early, was laid out in 1925. The immediate vicinity was also used for burials in the years that followed.

The forest cemetery with field stone wall and mausoleum is on the monument list of the district.

The cemetery is about 900 meters east-northeast of the Kritzow manor house on the eastern slope of the Uhuberg in a wooded area. Unpaved forest paths lead to it.

The mausoleum was built by the landowning family Kritzows in 1925 for their only son W. F. A. Hansen (1896-1925), who died young. The estate, which had belonged to the Bülow family for a long time, was acquired by the Hansen family in 1924. The mausoleum was initially surrounded by a simple fence.

In April 1945 fallen Wehrmacht soldiers were buried in front of the mausoleum on the Kritzow corridor. The inhabitants of the village continued to use the site as a cemetery, which they surrounded with a wall of hewn fieldstone. The gravestones bear the names of many families who fled at the end of the Second World War and came from the regions of Pomerania and East Prussia.

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldfriedhof_(Kritzow)

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May 24, 2021

A beautiful place in the middle of the forest with an interesting history

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Location: Langen Brütz, Ludwigslust-Parchim, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Kritzow Forest Cemetery

1. Rohenberger Mill – Kritzow Forest Cemetery loop from Zittow

2. Canoe Launch on the Warnow – Kritzow Forest Cemetery loop from Zittow

3. Kritzow Forest Cemetery loop from Wendorf

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