Vladslo German war cemetery

Infobox Military Cemetery
name=Vladslo German war cemetery
body=German War Graves Commission
"(Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge)"


caption=Crosses at Vladslo
use_dates= 1914-1918
established= 1956 (Concentration cemetery)
designer=
coordinates= coord|51|03|00|N|2|55|00|E|
nearest_town=Diksmuide, Belgium
total= 25,644
unknowns=
commemorated=
by_country= Imperial Germany
by_war= World War I
source=

Vladslo German war cemetery is about three kilometres north east of Vladslo, near Diksmuide, Belgium. Established during World War I, the cemetery holds 3,233 wartime burials. [http://www.webmatters.net/belgium/ww1_friedhof_vladslo.htm Web matters] ] In 1956, burials from many smaller surrounding cemeteries were concentrated in Vladslo, and it now contains the remains of 25,644 soldiers. Each stone bears the name of twenty soldiers, with just their name, rank, and date of death specified.

The cemetery is administered by the German War Graves Commission ("Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge"). They also look after the three other German war cemeteries in Belgium: Langemark,
Menen and Hooglede.

The Grieving Parents

The cemetery also contains a statue - "The Grieving Parents" [Sometimes called the "The Mourning Parents"] - by Käthe Kollwitz, a noted German sculptress [ [http://www.kollwitz.de Kollwitz Museum, Cologne, Germany] ] in the 1930s. She made the statute as a tribute to her youngest son, Peter, who was killed in October 1914 and is buried nearby. The eyes on the father-figure gaze on the ninth stone before him, on which his son's name is written.

External links

* [http://www.trabel.com/ieper/ieper-vladslo.htm General information]
* [http://www.webmatters.net/belgium/ww1_friedhof_vladslo.htm Cemetery details]