German military cemetery in Lommel

German military cemetery of 16 hectares, established in 1953-59 by the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge. During the battles in Belgium and West Germany, especially at Aachen, in the Hürtgen Forest and at the Remagen bridgehead, the American Graves Service provisionally buried the German fallen who were recovered from its battlefield in four collective cemeteries, namely at Henri-Chapelle, Fosse, Overrepen and Neuville-en-Condroz. In 1946-47, the fallen were transferred from these four places to Lommel. When in 1946 the American Graves Service had handed over this provisional German collective cemetery to the competent Belgian authorities, they for their part transferred to Lommel the soldiers who had fallen or died on Belgian territory during the Second World War, as well as 542 German dead from the First World War from a small soldiers' cemetery in Leopoldsburg, after the closure of old cemeteries. which was also dissolved.

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