Hauptfriedhof Stuttgart

Cemetery description

The Main Cemetery in Stuttgart (Hauptfriedhof Stuttgart) was established at the time of World War I. There are several burial sites for victims of both World Wars - victims of the Nazi Euthanasia Program and of air bombardments as well as soldiers who fell in World War II, among others.
In the north-western part of the cemetery there are three burial sections: Nos. 21, 24, and 26, containing the graves of forced labourers from Central and Eastern Europe. Burial section No. 26, holding the largest number of Polish graves, is marked by 20 stone plaques, arranged at irregular spaces from each other, bearing the names of approximately 360 victims who lost their lives in the years 1941-1945. Below section No. 26, in two oblong sections Nos. 24 and 21, there are 9 stone stelae - one marked by an Orthodox cross, the remaining ones with the names of around 200 victims from Eastern Europe.
Other Polish citizens are buried in section No. 41 - which contains the graves of air raid victims, including those who were killed in the most tragic air raid that took place on 12 September 1944.
Stuttgart Main Cemetery is the final resting place for more than 1,000 foreign victims of World War Two. 240 of them are Polish citizens of various nationalities and religions, as well as their children born during and after the war. They died as a result of gruelling labour, disease, deprivation and air raid attacks.
Renovation of the site in 2023 included the conservation of gravestones, the erection of a stele with a Latin cross and the dedication of plaques with the names of 226 Polish citizens whose identity could be determined.

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