Austro-Hungarian military cemetery of Toblach, Military cemetery at Toblach, Italy

The Austro-Hungarian military cemetery of Toblach lies in the Landro valley, about 9 km south of Toblach, on the steep slope of the 2,254 m Naßwand mountain. It is laid out on stepped terraces, with rows of anonymous crosses rising uphill and a memorial chapel and obelisk at the centre.

The cemetery served the Austro-Hungarian field hospital set up behind the Höhlenstein valley front, where soldiers wounded on Monte Piana and nearby peaks were treated from 1915 to 1917. After the war, most Austrian dead were moved to Bressanone, leaving 1,259 non-German-speaking soldiers here. Ludwig Mitterdorfer and later Waltraud Fuchs restored the abandoned site in the 1950s.

The gravestones display names and inscriptions in several languages, reflecting the diversity of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Visitors can see from these inscriptions how many different peoples and regions of the empire are represented in this valley.

The entrance with its car park lies on the western side of the SS-51 Alemagna road, on the bank of the Rienz, about 9 km south of Toblach and 6.5 km from Schluderbach. From the entrance, marked trails climb to the Naßwand and Dürrenstein summits and to the Plätzwiese plateau. The graves stand on stepped terraces reached by a staircase, so the ground is not level.

The cemetery sits strategically in Höhlensteintal valley, an area that played a key role in supply routes during the war. This location shows how closely this site's history is tied to military operations in these mountains.