Alter Friedhof

Cemetery description

In the old Alter Friedhof Cemetery in Dormagen, there are historical gravestones and war graves of victims of World War I and World War II and of German soldiers. The cemetery has been disused since it was turned into a public park area in 1985. The central part holds a memorial site commemorating the deceased forced labourers and their children. It contains the graves of 48 forced labourers - Russians, Poles, Belgians and Italians - and their children - 31 Polish and 7 - Russian. The central part is marked by a 2,5-metre-high Anröchter dolomite sculpture created in 1987 by a sculptor from Cologne, Hilarius Schwarz. The obelisk is surrounded by small ceramic gravestones displaying the names of the victims, and a larger memorial plaque with the following words: ‘Here lie 7 Russian and 31 Polish children who died during the war between 1941-45.

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