Renovation German Military Cemetery WWI Vladslo

Commissioned by the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, the study was conducted for the thorough renovation of the WWI German Military Cemetery in Vladslo. The Vladslo cemetery is the final resting place of 25645 German soldiers and has about 90000 visitors annually. Designed by landscape architect Robert Tischler, the cemetery features a magnificent sculpture group of a grieving parent couple by world-renowned German sculptor Käthe Kollwitz for her 17-year-old son Peter Kollwitz, who was killed on Oct. 23, 1914, in neighboring Esen. Peter’s grave is right in front of the grieving parent couple. The cemetery was protected as a monument in 1997. 2014 marked the 100th anniversary of the First World War. The cemetery needed major renovation in view of the 100th anniversary. As part of the work, the pavements were repaved, the concrete tiles replaced with tiles in Belgian bluestone, the lawns were re-seeded and all the grave tiles cleaned and put back to level.

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