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Mettlach an der Saar


Mettlach, Military Cemetery, ❌ WW2 German War Cemetery in Mettlach (Kriegsgräberstätte), located in the federal state of Saarland, is the final resting place of 10 German soldiers.


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Civil Cemetery
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War Cemetery


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Cemetery Entrance

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Monument

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Burial Ground
victims of World War II.

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Burial Ground
victims of World War II.


Mettlach is a municipality in the district Merzig-Wadern, in Saarland, Germany, situated on the river Saar.

Surrounded by a forest at the end of Gangolfer Str lies Embedded in the civil cemetery of Mettlach an der Saar are the grave site of 10 victims of World War II.



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Monument,
Terracotta Statue

Mettlach War Cemetery


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Germania

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The sculptor of the monument, which consists of a terracotta statue on a sandstone base, is likely to have been Alexander Schmidt, who was head of V&Bs modeling workshop at the time.

The figure on the monument represents Germania, as the embodiment of the German Empire founded in 1871, whose heraldic eagle is also depicted on the shield. It is therefore a memorial of the type typically erected after the war of 1870/71.

Die Figur verkörpert das siegreiche Deutschland nach dem Krieg von 1870/71.

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Sword and Shield

Mettlach War Cemetery


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Heraldic Eagle

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Iron Cross




Heraldic Eagle:
The figure on the monument represents Germania, as the embodiment of the German Empire founded in 1871, whose heraldic eagle is also depicted on the shield. It is therefore a memorial of the type typically erected after the war of 1870/71.

Iron Cross:
This reminder of the bravery and virtue of the fallen is also expressed in the Iron Cross, which is assigned to the dead soldiers as a military award for bravery - a tradition that has been maintained in Germany to this day.


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We Remember

Mettlach War Cemetery


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Hein Heinrich
✞ 24.05.1940

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Hagen Lotar
✞ 24.05.1940




Lothar Hagen/Heinrich Hein, Me 110 , 3./ZG 52


Crash of a Me 110 near Mettlach. KIA were Leutnant Lothar Hagen and Oberfeldwebel Heinrich Hein of 3./ZG 52. Hagen was born in Waldheim, Hein in Mettlach. Both are buried on the war cemetery at Mettlach (grave 3 and 4).

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