La Neuville-en-Tourne-à-Fuy

1,965 German war dead from the First World War rest on this war cemetery
World War.

Département Ardennes

The German military cemetery at La Neuville-en-Tourne-à-Fuy was established in the spring of
1917 by the German troops as a military hospital cemetery. To La Neuville
the wounded from the battle in April and May 1917 for the heights south of Moronvilliers
south of Moronvilliers - a place which, like the neighboring
like neighboring Nauroy - could not be rebuilt after the war. Later still
The German offensive in July 1918 and the defensive battles in September and
September and October 1918. The memorial was created by sculptors who served in the
Who served as soldiers. Those buried here belonged to military units,
whose home bases were mainly in Saxony, but also in West Prussia,
Silesia, Brandenburg, Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Westphalia and the Rhineland
were located.

Repair work between the wars

The first work to improve the condition of the cemetery was carried out by the
Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V. (German War Graves Commission) on the basis of an agreement made in 1926 with the
with the responsible French military authorities in 1926.
However, the problem of permanently marking the graves remained due to a lack of
Lack of foreign currency and the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.

Final design

Following the conclusion of the Franco-German War Graves Agreement of July 19, 1966, the
1966, the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V. (German War Graves Commission) - financially
supported by the Federal Government - was able to begin the final design of the
german military cemeteries in France from the time of the First World War
begin. In addition to a fundamental landscape gardening overhaul, in which
the beginning of the 1960s, volunteers from the youth camps of the
Volksbund youth camps, the previous temporary wooden crosses were replaced in 1973 with
wooden crosses were replaced with metal crosses with the names and dates of those
Names and dates of those resting here. The 35-kilogram cross foundations transported by the Bundeswehr
by the Bundeswehr were moved by volunteers from the youth camps of the
Volksbund youth camps and, like the soldiers of the Bundeswehr, impressively supported
the Volksbund in the fulfillment of its tasks.

All 1,965 of the fallen rest in individual graves. Nine of them remain unidentified.

For religious reasons, the graves of the three fallen of the Jewish faith were marked
Were marked with a natural stone stele instead of a cross for religious reasons. The
hebrew characters read:

1. (above) "Here rests buried ... ."

2. (below) "May his soul be interwoven into the circle of the living."

Maintenance:

The cemetery is constantly cared for by the Volksbund's maintenance service.