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German War Cemetery Lommel

German War Cemetery Lommel

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German War Cemetery Lommel

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Location: Lommel, Maaseik, South Limburg, Flanders, Belgium

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2. Beverlo Canal – Lommel Sahara loop from Leopoldsburg

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3. Beverlo Canal – Fietsen door de Bomen loop from Lommel

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Claudine en Robert🇧🇪🚴

August 15, 2022

The German Military Cemetery is the largest Western European cemetery from WWII. Here 39,111 German soldiers were given their final resting place. Walk along the endless rows of graves, discover their stories and reflect. You can strengthen your inner self afterwards in the brasserie with terrace: Hof Ten Vrede.

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Didada

June 8, 2023

The cemetery was officially inaugurated on September 6, 1959. Before that, the soldiers who died in World War II had been buried by the American burial service in five collective cemeteries in the region. From 1946 the reburial of the fallen from the collective cemeteries to Lommel began. As a result, not only the former temporary collective cemeteries of Henri-Chapelle, Fosse, Overrepen and Neuville-en-Condroz were dissolved, but also the German military cemetery from World War I in Leopoldsburg with 542 dead. Of 13,000 unknown soldiers, 7,000 were subsequently identified. Over 30,000 people visit the cemetery every year.

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Didada

June 8, 2023

Since 1953, the German War Graves Commission has looked after the cemetery. He maintains a large information center there and also a youth meeting place. About 25 to 30,000 people visit this cemetery every year. In May 1995 a ginkgo tree was planted as a sign of hope and remembrance of the war and the first use of nuclear weapons on August 6, 1945 over Hiroshima. A commemorative plaque reads in 3 languages: "As a sign of the hope of peace. Planted on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the end of the war”. In the center of the cemetery is a memorial column originally erected in the Brussels-Evere cemetery.

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Location: Lommel, Maaseik, South Limburg, Flanders, Belgium

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German War Cemetery Lommel

1. Cycling through the trees in Bosland

2. Beverlo Canal – Lommel Sahara loop from Leopoldsburg

3. Beverlo Canal – Fietsen door de Bomen loop from Lommel

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