Friedhof Heidingsfeld

Cemetery description

In the north-eastern part of the biggest Heidingsfeld municipal cemetery in Würzburg, on the side of Winterhäuser Street, there is a large burial site for the victims of war. The graves are marked by 60 concrete crosses with metal plaques bearing the victims’ names. According to the information provided by the cemetery administrator, 176 victims of World War II are buried in the cemetery. Most were civilian forced labourers, prisoners and prisoners of war from Poland, the USSR, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. They were killed in air bombardments, died as a result of disease, or were executed in the prisons situated in Bavaria.
The available archival lists of war graves, which contain very distorted personal data about the victims, have made it possible to establish that 80 Polish citizens rest in this cemetery. Most of the graves are located in the war graves burial section but some graves were initially located in other sections as well.
The state of preservation of the memorials is very good.

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