The Hungarian-German war cemetery in Székesfehérvár is located on the site of the abandoned
Grounds of the abandoned civilian cemetery "Heiliger Geist". German and Hungarian
and Hungarian dead of the First and Second World Wars are buried there.
Description of the cemetery
An avenue leads to the central high cross. Granite crosses bearing two names on each side
two names on each side, mark the German soldiers' graves. On a small
Memorial square to the right of the high cross. They commemorate
german war dead who rest among the unknown or whose mortal remains could not be
Remains could not be recovered.
Occupancy
Around 54,000 German soldiers lost their lives in Hungary during the Second World War
Their lives in Hungary. The names of 35,000 of these war dead are known. From the First
World War I, 617 deaths are recorded. The graves of two thirds of the
Of the deceased are spread over 120 different locations.
Initial negotiations with Hungary on the care of war graves began in 1963
in accordance with the resolution of the Red Cross societies of 1965, Hungary
of 1965, Hungary was the only Eastern European country to exchange
War grave records with the German War Graves Commission.
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In Székesfehérvàr, after 1964, the War Graves Commission was allowed to use some of the approximately 750
Graves in the already dilapidated cemetery with wooden crosses
with wooden crosses. However, the overall condition of the graves remained
unsatisfactory.
in 1987, the Székesfehérvàr city council announced plans to redevelop parts of the cemetery for commercial use
To open up parts of the cemetery for commercial use. Negotiations
with the Hungarian Red Cross made it possible to secure the war graves
secured. By the spring of 1990, the Volksbund reburial service had succeeded in
german dead and buried them in individual graves in another part of the cemetery
Individual graves in another part of the cemetery. During the same period, reburials took place from
Szabadbattyan and other grave sites.
History
Székesfehérvàr is one of the first war cemeteries that the Volksbund
was allowed to create in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain. At the
Inauguration on June 1, 1991, around 1,000 German war dead were buried there
War dead were buried there. After the Hungarian authorities made a site available to the
for the expansion of the facility, Székesfehérvà was
Székesfehérvàr became the collective cemetery for Fejér County. Due to additional burials
the number of burials more than doubled.
On December 23, 1994, the German-Hungarian War Graves Agreement came into force
Came into force. The War Graves Commission now looks after 16 war cemeteries in Hungary. Its
official contact partner is the Ministry of Defense, Department for
military Tradition and War Graves Care.
Special feature
The war cemetery in Székesfehérvàr includes a Hungarian military cemetery with
Cemetery with horizontal name plaques and oak death steles. In the
the rear of the site are the graves of around 1,200 members of the Austro-Hungarian
of the Austro-Hungarian army who died in the First World War. Name plaques
and concrete crosses mark these graves. A bell tower and various
hungarian memorial plaques adorn the individual grave blocks.
