Friedhof Schwarzenborn

Cemetery description

The small municipal cemetery in Schwarzenborn mainly holds the graves of children of so-called ‘displaced persons’, as well as adults who stayed in the DP (displaced persons) camp in Schwarzenborn. All of these persons died in 1946, while they were awaiting an opportunity to return to their homelands or to emigrate elsewhere.
The burial site is located in the lower part of the cemetery, not far from the entrance gate. The graves are arranged in a row and each of them is marked by a sandstone cross with their first and last names inscribed upon it. In 1999, a battalion of grenadiers took custody of this place. This fact is commemorated by means of a memorial plaque placed on a meadow erratic boulder that bears the following inscription: ‘3./PzGrenBtl 152 (Battalion of Armoured Grenadiers) Company of the city of Schwarzenborn took, on 25 March 1999, custody of these graves.’
Captain Haug, the Company Commander.
‘I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die.’ (J 11, 25-26)

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