Sigolsheim National Cemetery

Kaysersberg Vignoble, France

Located in one of the deadliest areas of the Alsace front, Sigolsheim National Cemetery is home to soldiers who died for France during the Battle of the Colmar Pocket (5 December 1944 – 9 February 1945). Construction work took place from 1962 to 1965 and the cemetery was inaugurated on 2 May 1965 by the Minister of Veterans Affairs and Madame de Lattre de Tassigny. The cemetery houses the bodies of soldiers exhumed from communal cemeteries in Haut Rhin, Vosges and Territoire de Belfort.

It also contains the bodies of 1,589 French soldiers buried in individual graves, including 792 graves of North African soldiers and 15 Jewish soldiers’ graves.

References:

cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr

Cemeteries, mausoleums and burial places in France

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Kaysersberg Vignoble, France

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Founded: 1962
Category: Cemeteries, mausoleums and burial places in France

More Information

www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr

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4.8/5 (based on Google user reviews)

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User Reviews

Gary Schulte (12 months ago)
Sobering reminder of the winter battles in which Allied forces worked for 2 weeks to dislodge the German forces from this hill which commanded a strategic position over this vast area of the Rhine Valley. From this point you can easily see the villages which were wrestled from the Acis contingents, often house by house. Amazing courage and heroism was displayed during a bitter 1945 winter.

Jo Jan (2 years ago)
Passby this hill on a bus, a cemetery for the fallen soldiers during worldwar II.

ma vision des choses le guide et voyageur (2 years ago)
Necropolis with explanatory panel, American meditation area, monument near the car park.

Anne ROUSSELIERE (2 years ago)
Reflection and respect towards all those who died for our freedom, today surrounded by vines. Nice panorama of the valley

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