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Cemeteries


The communal cemetery



Until 1791 the cemetery Munster surrounding the church of Saint-Leger.
After being transferred to the field of Unter-Dubach (the location of the fire), the current cemetery was put into operation on 1 July 1867.


The communal cemetery (ph. : Zeppeline)

In the cemetery of Munster are many funerary monuments dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth century, which have historical value.
There are the graves of family Hartmann which range between 1837 and 1950 and include almost all the personalities of this great family of industrialists.

Among the many other tombs that deserve to be reported, include in particular that of Gustave Rothan (1822-1890), Minister Plenipotentiary of Napoleon III, whose daughter was married to Pierre de Coubertin (renovator Olympics in 1894-1896 and owner of a house in Luttenbach) and the chemist and man of science, Henri Loewel (1795-1856).


The military cemetery



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.


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Tombs Hartmann (ph. : S. W.)


Tomb Rothan (ph. : S. W.)



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The Bavarian lion (ph. : S. W.)


Tomb Indochinese (ph. : S. W.)


Tomb of Canadian airmen (ph. : S. W.)

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