The German military cemetery in Galati is located on the grounds of the
Civilian cemetery "Eternitatea".
Description of the cemetery
In 1991, the two lawned burial plots were provided with concrete crosses
With concrete crosses bearing metal plaques with the names, dates and ranks of the dead
Dates and ranks of the dead. The names of those buried in the later leveled
"Osuar" (ossuary), which was later leveled, or whose graves were overburied,
are engraved in alphabetical order on metal plaques and assigned to the high cross
on the cemetery wall. The name book is available at the
Cemetery administration (front building on the right).
Burial
In Galati, 98 German dead from the First World War were laid to rest in an "Osuar" (ossuary)
World War found their final resting place. In individual graves and also in the "Osuar"
another 1,664 German soldiers were buried during the Second World War. The
Ossuary was leveled.
History
As early as 1966, youth organizations had been maintaining soldiers' graves at various locations in
soldiers' graves at various locations in Romania. In the 1980s and
1990s, the Volksbund negotiated with Romanian government agencies and various municipal
and various municipal administrations and succeeded in having cemeteries repaired
cemeteries could be repaired or newly created in several locations. The reburial
of the dead of both world wars followed.
In Galati, during extension work in 1986, the German fallen of the Second
World War II were reburied in a cemetery approved for additional burials.
This prevented further overburial by civilian graves, which had already begun in
Had already begun in some areas.
On December 10, 1997, the German-Romanian War Graves Agreement came into force
Came into force. The contractual partner of the German War Graves Commission is
the Romanian "Government Office for the Veneration of Heroes" ("Oficiului Naþional pentru
Cultul Eroilor") in Bucharest.
Soon after the fall of the Iron Curtain - from 1999 onwards - the number of
organized by the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. in Romania increased
Work camps for young people and work assignments for German soldiers organized by the
Who volunteered to carry out repair and maintenance work on war gravesites
as volunteers. The Romanian Ministry of Defense as well as the central and local
local authorities supported these activities. The Romanian military
took part in the maintenance work, accommodated the groups in its bases and
Bases and catered for them there.
Special feature
The cemetery is also home to a joint ossuary of Romanian and German
german soldiers who died in the First World War, and in a small grave field
french soldiers of the First World War in a small burial ground and Romanian
Romanian and Soviet soldiers who died in the Second World War.
For information on how to visit the cemetery, please contact the
War Graves (telephone: +49 561 7009-179).
