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Gießen District

Landkreis Gießen

War Graves Site Kloster Arnsburg

Gießen District

Landkreis Gießen

War Graves Site Kloster Arnsburg

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War Graves Site Kloster Arnsburg

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Location: Lich, Landkreis Gießen, Gießen District, Hesse, Germany

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July 23, 2023

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In 1959-1960, a war victims' cemetery was created in the former cloister of the Cistercian monastery (1174-1803). The German War Graves Commission was looking for a worthy place to protect …

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October 16, 2023

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Worthy setting for the dead.

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October 18, 2023

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In the chapter house, an extremely beautiful early Gothic room, there is a memorial stone with the words "mortui viventes obligant" (The dead oblige the living). The five crosses in the Arnsburg coat of arms represent the new purpose of the former cloister as a war victims' cemetery (the eagle is a reminder of the Lords of Arnsburg, the red and silver ribbon of the Cistercian order, whose monks worked here for over 600 years). On the left wall of the chapter house there is now the remarkable gravestone of the knight Johann von Falkenstein (†1365). kloster-arnsburg.de/present2.htm

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Location: Lich, Landkreis Gießen, Gießen District, Hesse, Germany

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