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Ansbach War Cemetery

Ansbach War Cemetery

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Ansbach War Cemetery

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Location: Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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3. Silver Willow Avenue near Dornberg – Geisengründer Weg loop from Geisengrund

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Heinz

November 2, 2017

The first to be buried in the forest cemetery, which was newly created in 1914, were prisoners of war of various nationalities from a prisoner of war camp. In addition, there were 51 German hospital deaths and those who were brought home. On February 22 and 23, 1945, 450 people lost their lives in bombing raids on the station district in Ansbach. 375 of them have their final resting place in mass graves in the forest cemetery. At the beginning of the 1980s, the system was renovated by the Volksbund with the support of the city and the state. Bronze crosses now mark the grave sites. Source: volksbund.de/kriegsgraeberstaette/ansbach.html

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JakobusPilger

May 26, 2021

As a memorial to the endless number of war dead, such places - usually referred to as "war cemeteries" or "soldiers' cemeteries" - are still very important today. "Now, Lord, let your servant go in peace, as you said." However, the many people buried here were by no means divorced in peace, but became victims of the war and an inhuman tyranny.
The most important and at the same time everlasting function of the soldiers' or honorary cemeteries or war cemeteries is therefore to keep the memory of this suffering alive and – every generation anew (!) – to remind people of the lasting preservation of peace.

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Ansbach War Cemetery

1. Through the Dombach Valley – At the Höllgraben loop from Hürbel am Rangen

2. Dombachtal Nature Reserve – Atonement Cross in the Dombach Valley loop from Geisengrund

3. Silver Willow Avenue near Dornberg – Geisengründer Weg loop from Geisengrund

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