Have visited a few over the years on the continent and in England, but somehow missed this one.
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Ysselsteyn.
31,598.
Ysselsteyn.
German military cemetery's
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I have always been struck by how uncared for they always seem to be
Thanks for posting.. some more info
https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/37/German-War-Cemetery-Ysselsteyn.htm
https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/37/German-War-Cemetery-Ysselsteyn.htm
There's a German section in Brookwood Cemetery...
Featuring the tomb of the unknown apostrophe.
Well, it wasn't warranted, officer
I agree
So it’s the German Cemetary’s Warrant Officer?
Cultural thing innit. The CWGC cemeteries were designed from the outset to look like the classic English / British garden. Capability Brown and all that. German cemeteries are designed to fit in with German sensibilities and more like the ancient forests of the German imagination so they tend to have trees and shadows and look (to us) gloomier.
Featuring the tomb of the unknown apostrophe.
Featuring the tomb of the unknown apostrophe.
Given the subject matter, one might say it's a großer mistake.
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Very good! That is way too clever for most. Took me a moment to work it out.
I've spent a few hours strolling round a German Cemetery on the Futa pass one year; very spacious and well set out. We were staying on the campsite just down the rd and making our way backwards and forwards from Mugello. There were four souls to each stone.
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On a whim and having read * that it was the site of a Roman settlement on an an escarpment high up over the river Saar, near the Luxembourg / Germany border, I went to see it.
Klause Kastel
Worth a short detour I would say. Great views, despite the weather. A small church and, way up in the air, a German WW2 cemetery.
https://goo.gl/maps/dmGzc4mrgXen4pTn8
* It was actually in a German motorbike touring magazine, of which I couldn’t read one word. But I got the gist that it was worth a short detour. They were right.
Klause Kastel
Worth a short detour I would say. Great views, despite the weather. A small church and, way up in the air, a German WW2 cemetery.
https://goo.gl/maps/dmGzc4mrgXen4pTn8
* It was actually in a German motorbike touring magazine, of which I couldn’t read one word. But I got the gist that it was worth a short detour. They were right.
On a whim and having read * that it was the site of a Roman settlement on an an escarpment high up over the river Saar, near the Luxembourg / Germany border, I went to see it.
Klause Kastel
Worth a short detour I would say. Great views, despite the weather. A small church and, way up in the air, a German WW2 cemetery.
https://goo.gl/maps/dmGzc4mrgXen4pTn8
* It was actually in a German motorbike touring magazine, of which I couldn’t read one word. But I got the gist that it was worth a short detour. They were right.
That was a good find; the first picture looks a bit like the view at Colditz; including the murky East German weather;
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we pass by this one on our way from NL to the Mosel / Eifel area. Pretty impressive and well kept.
https://www.landmarkscout.com/german-war-cemetery-lommel-kattenbos-belgium/
https://www.landmarkscout.com/german-war-cemetery-lommel-kattenbos-belgium/
Quite a few WW2 German war graves in cemeteries around the UK, mostly near RAF airfields.................. Chevington near us and Acklington aerodrome site has 17 Luftwaffe graves.
Sure there is a large German War Cemetery (5000 burials ) at Cannock Chase
Sure there is a large German War Cemetery (5000 burials ) at Cannock Chase
Our (CWGC) graveyards are there to celebrate the "Glorious Dead" who died fighting for freedom & liberty. The German war graves don't "celebrate" anything, they are there for remembrance of dead relatives who wasted their lives - no wonder their graveyards are dark and dismal.
The German Cemetery at Langemark outside Ypres has one of the spookiest memorial sculptures. worth a Google: Studentenfriedhof Langemark
This graveyard was visited by Hitler after the Germans invaded as he had been stationed in that area during WW1. An exhibition of photographs, including one of Hitler, was put up some years back and was then hit by lightning causing superstitious locals to justify their objections.
The cemetery at Menin has graves of German Jews who fought in WW1. Counted for nothing later.
The German Cemetery at Langemark outside Ypres has one of the spookiest memorial sculptures. worth a Google: Studentenfriedhof Langemark
This graveyard was visited by Hitler after the Germans invaded as he had been stationed in that area during WW1. An exhibition of photographs, including one of Hitler, was put up some years back and was then hit by lightning causing superstitious locals to justify their objections.
The cemetery at Menin has graves of German Jews who fought in WW1. Counted for nothing later.
The one at cannock chase is about 150 meters from a CWGC cemetery, loads of history in the local area, cannock chase was a first world war 1 camp and it is said that the local platform at Penkridge used to be the longest platform in the uk, was used for the nearby prisoner of war camp.
Not sure if this is correct though!
Not sure if this is correct though!
we stopped by accident at Aschendorfermoor camp once... that's a creepy place not much to see but they killed 50-100 deserters there on the say so of a deserter.... and I had to look him up later Willi Herold "the executioner"
can't have been the brightest spark in the box of sparks... but they got him in the end
The german war dead are remembered on Volkstrauertag (German Nations "people's" day of mourning) it's around the latter part of November usually the third sunday in November the week before advent starts (don't ask me to explain that it's a german thing...)
can't have been the brightest spark in the box of sparks... but they got him in the end
The german war dead are remembered on Volkstrauertag (German Nations "people's" day of mourning) it's around the latter part of November usually the third sunday in November the week before advent starts (don't ask me to explain that it's a german thing...)
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