Memorial for the Salzburg Bomb Victims of the Years 1944 and 1945 at the Municipal Cemetery

A memorial on the Salzburg Municipal Cemetery remembers today more than 200 victims of bomb attacks that took place during the Allied attacks in the autumn of 1944. The targets of the attacks were the main railway station and the railway tracks. In total, however, also 7,600 homes were destroyed or damaged. The memorial for these bomb victims dates back to the autumn of 1956, when the previously existing wooden crucifix, which was also dedicated to all victims of the Second World War, was replaced by an "honour memorial" from a conglomerate cafeteria together with an oak cross. Only in 1966 did an agreement take place, after consultation with the Interior Ministry, to redesign the graves of the Salzburg bomb victims. However, it would still take more than ten years until the memorial was erected; it was unveiled in 1978. In a communal grave located near this memorial, 197 people are buried today, while the remaining victims of the air raids are laid to rest in family graves.