Ehrenfriedhof
Ehrenfriedhof lies on the Ameisenbuckel above Heidelberg’s Bergfriedhof, about 295 metres above sea level. Its 17-hectare grounds stretch in a straight line for roughly 450 metres through trees, with stone crosses marking graves on both sides of the central axis.
Fritz Haller and Paul Bonatz designed the cemetery between 1933 and 1935 as a memorial for soldiers of the First World War. Local sandstone shapes the 544 crosses, 28 monumental plaques and the altar-like memorial at the end of the main axis. The plaques carry the names of 2,132 Heidelberg soldiers, while later sections and fourteen stone tablets commemorate those buried after the Second World War.
A semicircular terrace opens towards Heidelberg, the Rhine plain and, on clear days, the Palatinate hills. An open circular memorial hall with a relief of Saint Michael adds a later Christian element to the orderly landscape.
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