Bad Lauterberg, Bergfriedhof

According to the information available to us, a total of more than 240 dead from both world wars and the National Socialist tyranny rest in 3 cemeteries at the mountain cemetery. The location of the cemeteries is described from the main entrance. In detail: 50 m to the right of the main entrance: - the circular cemetery for 29 German soldiers of the First World War who died in military hospitals or were transferred from war zones; from the I. The large cemetery for 109 known foreign prisoners of war and forced laborers from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and Poland who were forced to work in the Lauterberg armaments industry during the last three years of the war and died of illness, malnutrition, overwork, homicide and accidents. Some of the small gravestones are heavily moss-covered and the inscriptions are weathered. New metal plaques with names and dates have been attached in places. A larger boulder stone erected in 2013 refers to a further 19 known mostly Polish and 8 unknown citizens as well as 1 unknown girl from the former Soviet Union, whose deaths were registered but whose graves can no longer be found or are unknown; in the front section approx. 50 m to the left of the main entrance: - the cemetery for a total of 75 German soldiers and civilians killed during the fighting in April 1945 as well as 2 known and 3 unknown Soviet citizens and 1 known Polish forced labourer. Photos: Volker Fleig 2014