Magdeburg, Westfrdh.

Magdeburg's West Cemetery was laid out in 1898 and, at 62.5 hectares, is the largest cemetery in
Cemetery in Magdeburg. Characteristic features of the Magdeburg West Cemetery include
Its neo-Gothic chapel, the park-like layout, the historic fountains and many
Fountains and many historic gravestones and sculptures. In 1994
the entire cemetery was placed under a preservation order.

The soldiers' graves from the First and Second World Wars alone cover an area of
Area of 10,000 square meters. Today, the cemetery is home to 273 German
Victims of the First World War who died between February 1915 and October 1920
died between February 1915 and October 1920. The victims are almost exclusively soldiers who died in the
Magdeburg military hospitals. The number of war dead from the Second
World War II is much higher: there are 657 individual graves and two collective graves with 429
Dead in the western cemetery. These include the 174 deceased from the
Margaretenhof military hospital cemetery, who were only reburied in 1995.

The sculptor Fritz Cremer created a memorial for the victims of fascism in 1981
of fascism. Victims of the Nazi regime are buried here, such as the doctor
Doctor Otto Josef Schlein, who was murdered in Auschwitz. 740 gravestones with the dates of the
Victims commemorate those persecuted, resistance fighters and politicians murdered up to 1945
Politicians. There is also a "memorial slab with urns of the 29 murdered prisoners of the
Polte Werk' subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp" is also located in the memorial grove. In total
were buried on this cemetery, which has a total area of approx. 5,000 square meters
Square meters, 855 burials took place. A wall with the inscription "Keep
awake your memory" surrounds the gravestones. A female figure on the wall
on the wall, which was also created by Fritz Cremer,
is a reference to Bertolt Brecht's poem "O Germany, pale mother"
represent.

The graves of those killed in the bombing of Magdeburg are also located in the West Cemetery
Bombing raid on Magdeburg on January 16, 1945. 6,000 people died in the devastating attack
6,000 people lost their lives, 16,000 were injured and 200,000 were left homeless
People were left homeless. The war victims' grove with a total area of approx.
15.500 square meters, which contains 2,199 individual graves as well as a collective grave with
40 dead, was given a memorial to the victims of the air raid in 1996.
The sculptor Wieland Schmiedel created the impressive memorial to commemorate this terrible day
memorial to this horrific day.

The cemetery also contains a mass grave and a memorial to
60 unknown victims from Klausener Straße in Magdeburg. During reconstruction work
the remains of 60 people were found. The site used to be part of a
KGB site. It is assumed that the 60 people were murdered there in the 1950s
were murdered there.

Since 1996, there has been a memorial stone of the Republic of Italy in the cemetery
for fallen Italian military internees who have since been exhumed and repatriated
transferred to their homeland.

in 2003, the western cemetery won an award for its state of maintenance and its
innovatively designed burial plots.