Cemeteries to visit Luxembourg-Ville

This cemetery contains 5,076 graves of American soldiers who fell during the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944-1945. General George S. Patton (1885-1945), who died after the war in a car accident, also lies here. The commander of the ^3rd US Division had expressly expressed the wish to be buried next to his men. Next to the chapel, the names, ranks and units of 371 missing American soldiers are inscribed on two rectangular pylons.

263 bodies lie in this burial place (Deutscher Soldatenfriendhof). From 1815 to 1866, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was part of the Prussian Union and the nearby fortress (today's Dräi Eechelen or Three Acorns Museum) was occupied by a Prussian garrison. The dead of this garrison were buried in this cemetery. French and German soldiers were buried here during the First World War and German soldiers during the Second World War.

In this cemetery (Deutscher Soldatenfriendhof) lie 10,914 German soldiers, 4,829 of whom are buried in a mass grave (Kameradengrab). 810 could not be identified. Most of them died during the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944-1945. The first German cemetery outside of Germany, this place was set up by the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge). A second German cemetery (262 bodies) is located in the district of Clausen.