It is the military-square behind the communal cemetery. It contains the graves of soldiers died for the most during the war of 1914-1918. There are 68 graves French, 276 German graves and even a master deminer Indochinese died in 1920. For 1939-45, there are 3 graves French, 32 German and a stele in memory of 7 Canadian airmen.
 | | The military cimetery (ph. : S. Wernain) |
The Bavarian lion This lion was built in 1916 by Bavarian troops in quartering around the city. They participated in the violent fighting that took place in the valley of Munster during the World War I and especially during the years 1915, during which the villages behind Munster, with the exception of Mittlach, were almost entirely destroyed. The text engraved on the monument stands for "Farm in fidelity unto death." The oral tradition says that this statue was commissioned, originally by the family Hartmann, before the First World War. Tombstone Indochinese On the French side of a cemetery monument unusual surprise visitor. This is the funeral stele of a soldier (Indo) on behalf of Chinese Wang Bing, stationed in Munster, at Camp Castelnau, between 1919 and 1920. It was loaded with his fellow exhume the bodies of soldiers scattered on the battlefields and rehabilitate the places where the enemy armies had clashed. Wang Bing died following the explosion of a obus.La oral tradition says that this statue was commissioned, originally by the family Hartmann, before the First World War. Tombstone of Canadian airmen The monument covers the tomb of seven Canadian airmen, members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, died in the fall of their bomber on January 7, 1945, Hohrodberg. Their names: Campbell, Horne, Mc Arthur, Candy, Lougheed, Mc Aulay and Greenstein, are engraved in stone. |