Germany
North Rhine-Westphalia
Münster District
Ruhr Region
Kreis Unna
Bergkamen
War Memorial Cemetery Bergkamen
Germany
North Rhine-Westphalia
Münster District
Ruhr Region
Kreis Unna
Bergkamen
War Memorial Cemetery Bergkamen
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"... The municipal cemetery is located in the center of Bergkamen. Numerous war victims have their final resting place in the cemetery area north of Hubert-Biernat-Straße. In addition to war graves of German soldiers and civilian bomb victims, there are also graves of prisoners of war and forced laborers, whose name boards are often weathered , Leaves and moss are illegible. Around forty names of German war victims cannot be deciphered, or can only be deciphered in fragments. This list is a copy of the information that can still be recognized. Ambiguities are marked with question marks.
A memorial cross commemorates six victims of the Kapp Putsch in 1920.
Elsewhere, the reliefs of a former war memorial and a corresponding tablet have been reused. The reliefs show a kneeling soldier, a woman with ears of wheat and a miner. The memorial used to stand elsewhere in Bergkamen city center and was dismantled years ago. ... "Stone column in the place of honor
1914-1918
1939-1945
They complain and warn.
His voice shook the earth then. Take care that you do not turn away whoever was speaking.
Children, women and men were killed by bombs in the Bergkamen community during the 1939-1945 World War.Plaque of a former war memorial
1914-1918.
The fallen sons
the grateful Bergkamen community.
denkmalprojekt.org/2021/bergkamen_kommunalfriedhof-bergkamen-mitte_krs-unna_wk1_1920_wk2_nrw.html
October 24, 2021
Cemetery in Bergkamen-Mitte for victims of the Ruhr Army from the former municipality of Bergkamen.
March 17, 2025
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