Military Cemetery Kehl

This "Field of Honor" was created after the Second World War by the American grave service with 980 fallen soldiers from field graves and smaller cemeteries in Alsace and the Vosges.

In addition, there are also 35 fallen soldiers from the First World War and 12 civilian victims of the bombing of Kehl on September 25, 1944, who were previously buried in the municipal cemetery. Deaths from the field graves of the Upper Rhine Plain were also interred.

The cemetery at Kinzigdam was inaugurated on October 5, 1958 and is surrounded by a moat.

At the front there are metal name tables that summarize the victims of the Second World War. They are also located under the name stones with 2 or 4 fallen soldiers.

Granite crosses have been placed between the graves as decoration

On the dam there is a memorial stone decorated with effigies and surrounded by a circular structure.

Since 2023, a naming controversy has been going on. It is no longer possible according to the current generation that it is called "Ehrenfriedhof", since members of the SS are buried there. "Soldatenfriedhof" is also not possible since civilian victims and probably also victims who died in captivity are buried there.
More appropriate would be "Kriegsgräberstätte", but this is not possible because this is the name for cemeteries that were constructed during the war.
To brighten up the cemetery and make it more accessible to young people, wooden signs with peace messages in graffiti were placed on the wall in front of the dam.

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