Soldatenfriedhof Retz
Historical sites
Description
If you leave the wine town of Retz through the Znaimer Tor gate and drive out of town on the developed, ascending Windmühlgasse up to the Calvary with the historic windmill as a landmark, you will soon see the high cross of the military cemetery. 848 war dead from the Second World War and 29 war dead from the First World War rest on this 5,000 square meter site in a natural heath landscape.
The Retz military cemetery was established in 1978 by the Volksbund's reburial service from the districts of Hollabrunn, Mistelbach and Korneuburg. The cemetery blends harmoniously into the surrounding landscape. The cemetery was inaugurated on September 30, 1979.
A natural path, accompanied by ground-level flora, leads through an opening in the stone wall to the cemetery. A granite paved path leads past the high cross to the cemetery below, which is covered by groups of birch trees. Natural stone crosses made of Waldviertel granite mark the graves of those laid to rest here.
The cemetery was transferred to the care of the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior on January 1, 2011.
