Bad Harzburg, Stadt- u. Ehrenfriedhof

According to the information available to us, a total of 283 dead from both world wars and the National Socialist tyranny rest in the town cemetery and the immediately adjacent war cemetery. In detail: The war cemetery, developed as an "honorary cemetery" by the German War Graves Commission, was inaugurated on June 3, 1953 with great public participation. A total of 247 German soldiers from the army, air force and Waffen-SS as well as foreign soldiers from German combat units who died of serious injuries in the town's military hospitals or who fell near Bad Harzburg in the final battles of the Second World War in April 1945 were buried here. Some of these remain unknown. War cemetery for 25 German soldiers of the First World War - transferred from war zones or military hospitals or who died in Harzburg military hospitals - in the left middle section of the town cemetery. In the cemetery area in sections 25, 28 and 29, a total of 11 individual graves. 25, 28 and 29 a total of 11 individual graves of 5 Soviet prisoners of war and forced laborers, 1 Belgian, 2 Polish prisoners of war/forced laborers who died in 1944/45 as well as 1 German soldier and 2 German refugees who died after the end of the war. Note: The easiest way to reach the war graves is via Schützenstraße (parking lot at the cemetery of honor). Continue past a Polish grave, keeping to the left, until you reach the First World War cemetery. photos: Volker Fleig 2013