Bourdon German War Cemetery in Bourdon, Picardie

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Get directions Rue du 8 Mai / D 81
Bourdon, Departement de la Somme, Picardie FR-80310 France

Coordinates: 49.98517, 2.08291
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The Deutsche Kriegsgräberstätte Bourdon was created by the German Graves Commission between 1962 and 1967. All of the casualties are from the Second World War and had originally been buried in a number of scattered locations across this area of the Somme. In 1961 the Volksbund began gathering the remains and transferred them to this large concentration cemetery. There are now 22,213 burials within the grounds which were provided by the French Government free of charge. The cemetery was opened to the public on 16th September in 1967. Its main feature is the ten metre high rotunda of Pfaelzer sandstone within which is a 3 metre in diameter vestry containing a sculpture of The Mother. It is the work of Professor Gerhard Marcks and embodies the pain of all mothers for their sons killed in war. Having passed through the vestry a wide path leads to the twelve metre high cross. The graves are separated into forty-four plots. The crosses of French limestone carry three names on each side. The burials date from the Battle of France in May and June 1940, and the German retreat of 1944.