Grave Cross for Deceased French Prisoners of War on the Parish Cemetery Kaistersteinbruch

On the parish cemetery of Kaisersteinbruch, there is a memorial cross for the deceased French prisoners of war at the northern church wall. The time of construction and the initiators are unknown. With the attack by the German Wehrmacht on France in the summer of 1940, tens of thousands of French prisoners of war were brought to the camp in Kaisersteinbruch. Their treatment and situation was better than that of the Soviet prisoners arriving from 1941 onwards. According to documents from the district administration of Bruck/Leitha, 57 French prisoners of war who died during their captivity were buried in the camp cemetery in Kaisersteinbruch/Sommerein.