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PoH-Code: poh.34330

Mass grave for soldiers of the Red Army in Neustift an der Lafnitz

01/01/1952 – 12/31/1952

Grabanlage für Soldaten der Roten Armee in Neustift an der Lafnitz (©Nora Brettl)

Grabanlage für Soldaten der Roten Armee in Neustift an der Lafnitz (©Nora Brettl)

Grabanlage für Soldaten der Roten Armee in Neustift an der Lafnitz (©Nora Brettl) · CC-BY-NC-4.0 · gams.uni-graz.at

From April 1945, for four weeks, units of the Red Army and the German Wehrmacht faced each other at the Lafnitz. Around 20 fallen soldiers of the Red Army were buried in the local cemetery of Neustift an der Lafnitz. Between 1951/52, a memorial site was established and a gravestone was erected.

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Sources

  • DERLA — Grabanlage für Soldaten der Roten Armee in Neustift an der Lafnitz (05b9b8b3-8eae-4b3f-82eb-d080bfeb500b) — DERLA — Grabanlage für Soldaten der Roten Armee in Neustift an der Lafnitz

Evaluations

  • Access (from 07/19/2026): Open access
  • Spatial accuracy: 4 — Accurate

Location & map

Map position available (Point) · spatial accuracy: 4 — Accurate

Textual location description

Friedhof, 7423 Neustift/Lafnitz

Map overview
Karte: © OpenStreetMap-Mitwirkende, OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA), SRTM

Coordinates (WGS84)47.36404° N, 16.02962° E

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