Grabanlage for Soldiers of the Red Army in Hornstein

On the local cemetery of Hornstein, there is a memorial site for the soldiers of the Red Army who fell in Hornstein and the surrounding area at the end of the war in 1945. Thirteen Red Army soldiers were buried in this memorial, which consisted of a large obelisk with a marble plaque and thirteen small obelisks, on the top of which small Soviet stars were attached. Commemorative ceremonies in honor of the fallen soldiers took place at the memorial on May 27, 1945, and in April 1948. In 1962, the memorial was physically reduced in size. After it had increasingly been exposed to decay, restoration work was carried out in 1973. During this time, the thirteen small obelisks were removed and instead plaques were attached to a cemetery wall. A further extensive renovation took place in 2016.