Bourdon German military cemetery, War cemetery in Bourdon, France

The cemetery is a memorial site for fallen soldiers with orderly rows of gravestones spread across the grounds. The markers share the same design and create a calm, ordered appearance through their arrangement.

The cemetery is a collective burial ground for German soldiers who died in the Somme, Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments during World War II. It holds those killed in the May 1940 advance toward the Channel coast, those who fell during the retreat of late August and early September 1944, and prisoners of war who died in France. In 2006, a German fighter pilot recovered that year was buried here in a ceremony attended by the mayor of Bourdon and an English historian family.

The marble sculpture 'Die Mutter' by Gerhard Marcks stands inside the ten-metre-high rotunda, which measures twelve metres across. The Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge maintains the cemetery in contact with the Bourdon municipal council, and German and French youths and young French soldiers take part in its upkeep. In 2006 an English historian family and a German-French mourners' group, including the mayor of Bourdon, attended the burial of a German fighter pilot whose body had then been recovered.

The site lies 18.5 km northwest of Amiens in the Somme department, on the territory of Bourdon. From the ten-metre rotunda a path leads to the twelve-metre high cross, with the 44 grave blocks arranged on both sides of that path. The Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge maintains the grounds and graves.

The round tower is 10 metres high and 12 metres across, and holds Gerhard Marcks's marble sculpture "Die Mutter". From it a path runs to a 12-metre-high cross, flanked by 44 grave blocks. The crosses are limestone, with three names carved on each face.