With more than 33,000 dead, the Andilly war cemetery is the largest German
german site of the Second World War in France. The cemetery was inaugurated on
29. September 1962.
Cemetery description
The Andilly German war cemetery is located around twelve kilometers north of the
of the town of Toul in the Département of Meurthe-et-Moselle. A wall planted with shrubs
with shrubs forms the enclosure. Scattered groups of trees and a dense
and a dense ring of trees around the cemetery give the grounds the character
Character of a light grove. To the left of the entrance building is the "Hall of Honor",
whose niche wall shows a mosaic of three mourning soldiers. There is also
there is also a cross that once stood at the German war cemetery in Pouxeux.
German prisoners of war had carved it for their dead comrades. On the
right-hand side, in a small room, the name books of those buried here are displayed in a shrine
of those buried here.
Occupancy
With more than 33,000 graves, Andilly is the largest German
War cemetery of the Second World War in France.
History
The site was created from a provisional US military cemetery.
As early as September 12, 1944, the American burial service had begun to
the small village of Andilly to bury its own and German casualties
German casualties in the small village of Andilly. Initially, these were the dead who had fallen in the area
west of Metz. This is how the US Temporary Cemetery Andilly came into being
for 3,400 American and 5,000 German soldiers.
in 1945/46, the American burial service established a permanent cemetery in St. Avold, around 100 kilometers away
Cemetery for its fallen soldiers in St. Avold, about 100 kilometers away, and transferred
all those buried there in temporary facilities. In Andilly
575 German casualties from St. Avold and 4,891 from Epinal-Dinoze were buried in Andilly.
This brought the number of soldiers buried in Andilly to 11,000.
After the conclusion of the Franco-German war graves agreement of 1954
the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (German War Graves Commission) was given the task of
German dead of the Second World War from the entire region in Andilly.
in 1957, reburials began from the departments of Nievre, Saône-et-Loire, Côte
d'Or, Haute-Marne, Jura, Doubs, Haute-Saône, Vosges, Belfort, Meuse and Meurthe-et-Moselle
Meurthe-et-Moselle. During planned searches of the entire area, almost
almost 2,000 German bodies, previously unknown in the burial grounds, were found, mainly in the
Vosges, were found. The cemetery was consecrated on September 29, 1962.
Special feature
As a sign of hope and peace, a ginkgo tree was planted in Andilly in 1995
Ginkgo tree was planted in Andilly in 1995.
