Langemarck military cemetery
The German war cemetery of Langermarck is near the village of Langermarck, part of the municipality of Langermarck-Poelkapelle, in the Belgian province of West Flanders. More than 44,000 soldiers are buried here. The village was the scene of the first gas attacks by the German army, marking the beginning of the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915.
During the First Battle of Ypres (1914) in World War I, inexperienced German infantry suffered severe casualties when they made a futile frontal attack on allied positions near Langermarck and were checked by experienced French infantry and British riflemen.
The cemetery, which evolved from a small group of graves from 1915, has seen numerous changes and extensions. It was dedicated in 1932. Today, visitors find a mass grave near the entrance. This comrades' grave contains 24,917 servicemen. Between the oak trees, next to this mass grave, are another 10,143 soldiers (including 2 British soldiers killed in 1918). The 3,000 school students who were killed during the First Battle of Ypres are buried in a third part of the cemetery.
Adolf Hitler spent two days visiting the Ypres Salient battlefields. His tour included the town of Ypres and Langermarck military cemetery.
44 000 Germans are buried at Langemark Cemetery
Often overlooked, there are 44,000 WW1 German soldiers buried at Langemark Cemetery outside of Ypres, Belgium. The Cemetery is much more subdued and austere compared to Commonwealth sites.
Langemark German Cemetery and Pillboxes, Belgium
The WWI German cemetery at Langemarck in Belgium contains many thousands of soldiers buried in groups or in a mass grave. Some German pillboxes, once part of the front line, survive within the site. It is well known for the large number of young people remembered here.
Cement House Commonealth Military Cemetery, Langemark, Belgium
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Cement House cemetery is in Langemark, north of Ieper. It was the scene of two battles, the first on 21-24 October 1914 and the second on 16-18 August 1917. The village was in German hands from April 1915 to August 1917 and from April to September 1918. Commonwealth, French and Belgian forces have in turn defended and attacked it.
Cement House was the military name given to a fortified farm building on the Langemark-Boesinghe (now Boezinge) road. The original Cement House Cemetery (now Plot I, an irregular group of 231 graves) was begun here at the end of August 1917 and used by the 4th and 17th Division burial officers, by field ambulances and by units in the line until April 1918.
In the years immediately following the Armistice, most of Plots II - XV were added when Commonwealth graves were brought in from the battlefields and small burial grounds around Langemark and Poelkapelle, mostly dating from the Autumn of 1917. The more important graveyards or groups of graves concentrated into this cemetery were the following:-
ASQUILLIES CHURCHYARD, which contained the graves of eleven British soldiers of November 1918.
AUDREGNIES CHURCHYARD, which contained the graves of eight British soldiers of August 1914 and one of November 1918.
ELVERDINGHE CHURCHYARD, which contained the graves of nine British soldiers of October 1914.
HENSIES CHURCHYARD, which contained the graves of one Canadian and three British soldiers of November 1918 and one British soldier of August 1914.
HEULE CHURCHYARD, which contained the graves of six British soldiers and one unidentified airman buried in October 1918.
MAISIERES COMMUNAL CEMETERY, which contained the graves of sixteen British soldiers of August 1914.
MEERENDRE CHURCHYARD, which contained the graves of four R.A.F. officers buried in October 1918.
OOSTNIEUWERKE CHURCHYARD, which contained the graves of five Canadian and five British soldiers of April 1915 and one British officer of October 1914.
PHEASANT TRENCH CEMETERY, LANGEMARCK, was in the fields a little East of Langemarck village. Pheasant Trench and Pheasant Farm were taken by the 51st (Highland) Division on the 20th September, 1917, but the cemetery was begun two months later. It contained the graves of fourteen soldiers from the United Kingdom.
PROVEN CHURCHYARD, which contained the graves of one Canadian officer and three British soldiers.
QUAREGNON COMMUNAL CEMETERY, which contained the graves of eight British soldiers buried in 1914.
ROLLEGHEM CHURCHYARD, which contained the graves of one R.A.F. officer and four British soldiers buried in 1918.
THULIN NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY, which contained the graves of eight British soldiers of August 1914 and two R.A.F. officers of October 1918.
WINKEL ST. ELOI CHURCHYARD, which contained the graves of thirty British and four Newfoundland soldiers buried in October 1918.
Plots XVI, XVII and XVIII originally contained some 500 French graves, but these were removed in 1922. The space vacated has been filled in over the intervening years by graves brought in from communal cemeteries and churchyards in the area, when their maintenance in these locations could no longer be assured. The cemetery is still used for the burial of remains that continue to be discovered in the vicinity, and a number of plots have been extended to accommodate these graves.
There are now 3,592 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery, 2,425 of the burials are unidentified.
Of the 22 Second World War burials in the cemetery, five are unidentified.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.
The above information was supplied by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
langemark German Military Cemetery, Belgium, by Roy Kevin Holloway
The cemetery started as a small group of graves in 1915. Burials were increased here by the German military directorate in Gent during 1916 to 1918.
In the mid 1920s, when the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge and the Official German Burial Service in Belgium began to renovate the cemeteries in Flanders, the cemetery was renamed Langemarck-North. With the setting up of a register of German military cemeteries in Flanders in 1930 the cemetery was renamed as German Military Cemetery Number 123. It was officially inaugurated on 10 July 1932.
Grave marker for 8 German soldiers. (copyright: greatwar.co.uk)During the 1930s approximately 10,000 soldiers were brought here from 18 German burial sites around the region of Langemarck and the total number of burials in the cemetery reached about 14,000. About 3,000 of the graves were those of the Student Volunteers who died in the battle of Langemark in October and November 1914 and as a result of this the cemetery became known as the Student Cemetery - Der Studentenfriedhof. Eight soldiers were buried in each plot and they are marked by a flat stone inscribed with their names, where known.
The lifesize bronze statues stand on the horizon of the cemetery. (copyright: greatwar.co.uk)After the Second World War and following the agreement in 1954 to establish three major German collecting cemeteries for First World War dead, Langemark underwent major redevelopment in the late 1950s:
groups of basalt-lava crosses were placed in the grounds
a basalt-lava cross was erected near the old bunker
the Kameraden Grab (Comrades Grave) was made for the unidentified dead
the lifesize bronze statue of four mourning soldiers, by the Munich sculptor Professor Emil Krieger, was placed at the upper end of it.
Exhumations from Westroosbeke, Passchendaele, Moorslede, Zonnebeke, Poelkapelle and Zillebeke were carried out and reburials at Langemark brought the total number of dead known dead to over 19,378. All the 'unknown' dead who were removed from all over Flanders at this time were taken to Langemark for reburial; the remains of 24,917 unidentified German soldiers are interred in the Kameraden Grab – a 'Comrades Grave'. The total number of soldiers buried or commemorated in Langemark stands at 44,234.
In 1971 more work was done at Langemark. The Volksbund changed all the grave markers which had previously only given the grave number to stones giving personal dates for each soldier where possible.
In recent years research by the Volksbund has identified 16,940 of the 24,000 previously 'unknown' soldiers buried here and since 1984 their names have been inscribed on granite blocks by the communal grave. That same year an international ceremony at Langemark was held to mark the completion of renovation work, which included moving the statue of the mourning soldiers to the 'horizon' of the cemetery.
German soldiers burying a comrade. (Volksbund)The Mourning Soldiers
The statue by Professor Emil Krieger was inspired by a photograph taken of soldiers from the Reserve Infantry Regiment 238, mourning at the grave of a comrade in 1918 (1). The second soldier from the right was killed two days after the photograph was taken.
Location
Langemark German military cemetery is situated to the north of Langemark village, on the northern exit in the direction of Houthulst. Langemark is about 6 kilometres north-east of Ypres.
Langemark German Cemetery, Belgium Part 1
This clip shows the video based display as you enter the World War One German Cemetery at Langemark, Belgium (the cemetery is not shown).
The Langemark Cemetery is the final resting place for over 44,000 German troops, nearly 25,000 unknown and buried in mass graves around the edge of the site.
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Langemark German Cemetery, Belgium
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Inside the Langemark German Cemetery, Belgium
A selection of clips (without commentary) showing the inside of the World War One Langemark Cemetery in Belgium.
The Langemark cemetery, the 'German Soldier Cemetery', is the final resting place for over 44,000 German soldiers who dies in the First World War. It contains a large number of grave plots (with 8-10 men per grave) as well as large mass graves for nearly 30,000 soldiers.
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Ypern und Langemarck (1940)
A.H. besucht Truppen an der Front während der letzten Phase der Schlacht um Frankreich im Zweiten Weltkrieg (1940).
Langemark German Cemetery, Flanders, Belgium
Soldatenfriedhof Langemark
Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof Langemark, Juni 2016.
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Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof - German War Cemetery Langemark
Video in German and English about The Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof - German War Cemetery Langemark by jurgenmarechal.nl
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Het Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof Langemark is een militaire begraafplaats in het Belgische dorp Langemark. Er rusten meer dan 44.000 Duitse soldaten die sneuvelden in de Eerste Wereldoorlog. De begraafplaats ligt ruim een halve kilometer ten noorden van het dorpscentrum. De begraafplaats heeft een zwaar rechthoekig toegangsgebouw. Daarachter ligt het Alter Friedhof, het oudste laagste deel van de begraafplaats, waar meer dan 10.100 gesneuvelden liggen, waarvan er ruim 6.300 geïdentificeerd konden worden. Centraal ligt daarin het kameradengraf, waarin bijna 25.000 niet geïdentificeerde soldaten werden begraven. Daarrond staan blokken met de namen van bijna 17.000 soldaten waarvan men zeker is dat ze in het massagraf liggen. Het noordelijk deel van de begraafplaats, het Einbettungsfriedhof Nord, is iets hoger gelegen en telt nog eens ruim 9.000 geïdentificeerde soldaten. Achteraan staat een beeldengroep van Emil Krieger, die vier treurende soldaten voorstelt. De begraafplaats wordt onderhouden door de Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge.
Langemark lag tijdens de oorlog aan de frontlinie. In oktober 1914 ontstond op deze plaats een Britse begraafplaats. Het gebied viel in Duitse handen na de gasaanval van 22 april 1915. In de zomer van 1917 werd het gebied heroverd; van het Duits Lenteoffensief in het voorjaar van 1918 tot het einde van de oorlog werd het nogmaals Duits. Na de oorlog was de begraafplaats, Langemarck-Nord of Nr. 123 genoemd, één van 17 Duitse begraafplaatsen in Langemark. Er lagen ruim 850 doden, waarvan ruim 620 Duitsers. Andere begraafplaatsen uit de omgeving werden ontruimd en naar hier overgebracht, zodat de begraafplaats groeide tot ruim 10.100 gesneuvelden. De begraafplaats werd in de jaren 30 ingericht door de Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge. Dit is het huidige lager gelegen gedeelte. Een poortgebouw werd gebouwd, met daarachter een open ruimte. Op het hoger gelegen gedeelte aan de noordkant van de begraafplaats kwam een klaprozenveld.
In de jaren 50 werden de begraafplaatsen die verspreid lagen over Vlaanderen teruggebracht tot vier. De stoffelijke resten van de begraafplaatsen werden overgebracht naar de verzamelbegraafplaatsen van Hooglede, Langemark, Menen en Vladslo. Men bracht graven over van Staden, Westrozebeke, Poelkapelle, Moorslede, Passendale, Zonnebeke en Zillebeke. De open ruimte bij het poortgebouw werd vergroot en hier werd een massagraf aangelegd waar 25.000 niet geïdentificeerde soldaten werden bijgezet. Aan dit massagraf kwam de beeldengroep van E. Krieger, die in de jaren 80 naar achteren werd verplaatst.
De begraafplaats wordt ook Studentenfriedhof genoemd. In november 1914 verspreidde de Duitse legerleiding het bericht dat jonge regimenten ten westen van Langemark de eerste vijandelijk linie hadden doorbroken, terwijl ze Deutschland, Deutschland über alles zongen. Deze bewering klopte niet, er werden geen vijandelijk posten overwonnen en men verzweeg dat de Flandernschlacht was vastgelopen in de modder van de IJzer, maar het positieve bericht werd gretig overgenomen door de Duitse kranten en een mythe was ontstaan. Het jonge regiment werd geïnterpreteerd als hoofdzakelijk studenten, wat aanleiding gaf tot de naam Studentenfriedhof en de naam Langemarck werd een begrip tijdens het interbellum en de propaganda van de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
De begraafplaats werd heringericht door architect Robert Tischler en werd beschermd als monument:
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On Holy Ground: German Cemetery Langemark, near Ypres
On Holy Ground: German Cemetery Langemark, near Ypres, Belgium.
from Ivan Lietaert
The German cemetery in Langemark, Belgium, is one of four German military cemeteries in Flanders. In the 1950s, the thousands of German graves from all over Flanders were relocated to 4 large cemeteries (Hooglede, Langemark, Menen and Vladslo). In Langemark, the Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof lies. It is often also named the Deutscher Studentenfriedhof because many young students, volunteers, are buried here, who died early on in the war. They died in the first battle of Passchendaele in 1914.
Max Richter's wonderful music, scoring this movie, starts with a poem of Marina Tsvetaeva, the famous Russian poet. This poem, which is about war and loss, was written in 1914, when young Russians were called to the Eastern front to fight the Germans.
Translation of the poem:
(Marina Tsvetaeva)
How many people fell in this abyss,
I fathom from afar!
There will be time, and I will vanish too
From earth's exterior.
All will be still, that sang and that did struggle,
That glistened and rejoiced:
The greenness of my eyes, the gold of my hair,
And this my tender voice.
Life will continue with its soft hot breath,
With day's oblivion.
All will continue — under outstretched heavens
As if I'd never been!
Like children changeable in every mean
And angry not for long,
Who loved the times when in the fireplace
Into ash turned the log,
Violin and cavalcade within the forest
And in the village, bell...
Upon this dear earth — I will be no longer
That was alive and real!
To all — who are the friends and strangers
To never having known the measure, me?
I turn to you with this my faith's demand
And love's query.
Both day and night, in word and letter both:
For truth of yes and no,
For that, though I am but twenty, I am
So often in such sorrow,
For unavoidably my slights and trespasses
Will be forgiven —
For all of my impetuous tenderness
And looks too proud and free —
For quickness of events as they come rushing,
For truth, for play, say I —
Please hear me! But do also, please, love me
For this, that I will die.
deutse begraafplaats -langemark
10.143 graven 4000 zonder naam -3000 vrijwillers (studentenfriedhof)
Langemark hier Ruhen 44304 Gefallende deutsche Soldaten
Erste Flandernschlacht und Mythos von Langemarck
Im Ersten Weltkrieg tobte im Oktober und November 1914 die Erste Flandernschlacht. Ein deutscher Angriff fand am 10. November bei dem Dorf Langemarck statt. Die daran beteiligten Regimenter bestanden großenteils aus jungen Kriegsfreiwilligen. Von der Obersten Heeresleitung (OHL) angestoßen, propagierte man im Deutschen Reich eine verklärte Sicht auf diese verlustreiche Schlacht; den tatsächlichen Ort des Kampfes (sechs Kilometer nordwestlich zwischen Noordschote und Bikschote) verschleiernd gab die OHL als Schauplatz westlich Langemarck an. Der Tod der Soldaten wurde propagandistisch zum „Mythos von Langemarck“ überhöht.
Bei dem am 10. Juli 1932 eingeweihten Langemarck-Denkmal rahmen Sandsteinquader den Eingang. Anlässlich der Einweihung stand Josef Magnus Wehner, der selbst an der Westfront verwundet worden war, auf ihnen und hielt eine später weitverbreitete, den Mythos von Langemarck untermauernde, Rede. In der Halle befanden sich auf Eichentafeln geschnitzt die Namen der dort Gefallenen. An der Stirnseite der Gräberstätte befand sich ein mit Mohn bepflanzter Ehrenraum. Es standen dort noch drei ehemalige Betonunterstände. Die einst dort verlaufende Kampffront wurde dargestellt durch eine Linie mit 52 Steinsarkophagen, die die Inschriften studentischer Korporationsverbände und beteiligter Truppenteile tragen. An ihnen führt ein Plattenweg entlang. Der Ehrenraum wurde von einem breiten Wassergraben umschlossen.
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Langemark German war cemetery
Langemark German war cemetery, Ypres, Belgium. This first world war cemetery in West Flanders contains 10,143 graves of which 3,836 are unkown, it also contains a mass grave with 24,917 German soldiers buried in it, 7,977 of these are unkown. At the rear of the cemetery is a sculpture of four mourning figures by Professor Emil Krieger. The group was added in 1956, and is said to stand guard over the fallen.
German students remembering their predecessors at the Langemark cemetery on 11/11/2018
WW1 Langemarck Cemetery
Excerpt no15 from World War One Battlefields film produced by Rumble TV visits Langemarck German War Cemetery. This is one of 17 excerpts available.
The film World War One Battlefields by Rumble TV could not have been possible without Stephen Anderson; Des Brogan of Mercat Tours International; Robin Blackburn,Kirsty Alexander and the pupils of Bishopbriggs Academy and of course the music.
All songs contained in the film are included courtesy of Greentrax Recordings Ltd and are from the album 'Far Far From Ypres - Songs, Poems and Music of World War One' (CD trax 1418). Contact: 01875 814155 info@greentrax.com greentrax.com
'The Green Fields of France' words and music by Eric Bogle. Performance by The Corries (Music) Ltd. Published by PLD Music Ltd./Domino Publ.co.ltd.
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Cement House Cemetery, Boesinghe, Ypres. Reburial 6 unknown soldiers
On October, 30th, 2003, 6 unknown British soldiers, found by the Diggers at Boesinge (near Ypres) were buried in the British Cement House Cemetery at Langemark (near Ypres). For each of them we laid down three white roses (for Emilie, son Tommie and me) on each grave.
A moving moment
Soldatenfriedhof Langemark