Kriegsgräberstätte Vossenack, War cemetery in Vossenack, Germany

The Kriegsgräberstätte Vossenack lies about 500 m outside the village on Simonskaller Straße, near the Bundesstraße 399 and the Franziskus-Gymnasium, on the contested Höhe 470 of the Second World War. The Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsarchivfürsorge had it laid out by architect Robert Tischler from summer 1949; it opened on 31 August 1952. It holds 2,334 fallen soldiers, 930 of them unknown, and the grave of Field Marshal Walter Model.

The cemetery was established between 1949 and 1952, following efforts by Engineer Julius Erasmus to recover fallen soldiers from the Hürtgen battles. His work led to the creation of an organized burial ground for thousands of servicemen.

A memorial stone at the entrance, set up on 21 May 2005, commemorates engineer captain Julius Erasmus, who recovered 1,557 fallen soldiers after the war and is known as the gravedigger of Vossenack. Thirty-five of those buried here died after the war while clearing mines and shells.

The cemetery lies about 500 m outside Vossenack on Simonskaller Straße, close to the Franziskus-Gymnasium and the B 399. Visitors reach the rows of graves on foot from the roadside; the grounds are kept by the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge. A stone at the entrance commemorates Julius Erasmus, unveiled on 21 May 2005.

Field Marshal Walter Model is buried here, but the sources record no vanished or unmarked tombstone. A stone at the entrance, set up on 21 May 2005, commemorates Engineer Captain Julius Erasmus, who recovered 1,557 fallen soldiers after the war and was known as the gravedigger of Vossenack.