Memorial Plaque at the Entrance to the Soviet Soldiers' Cemetery in Oberwart

For the soldiers of the Red Army who fell at the end of the war in 1945 in South Burgenland, a central cemetery was established in the early spring of 1946 on the outskirts of Oberwart. Subsequently, numerous reinterments and transfers of fallen soldiers of the Red Army from the region of Oberwart to the cemetery were carried out, and the cemetery was expanded. In the year 1965, the graves in the city center were abandoned, the dead Soviet soldiers exhumed and reburied at the cemetery on the outskirts of the town. In addition, the memorials from the city center were moved to the outskirts, or repositioned, and in the following years, further memorials were erected.