Kiel War Cemetery

Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein

Location Information:

Kiel lies 83 kilometres north of Hamburg.

From Hamburg visitors should travel north on the Autoroute 7, following signs for Kiel. Leave the A7 at the junction with the A215, still following signs for Kiel. The A215 ends on the outskirts of Kiel. Turn left at the end of the A215 onto the Westring following signs for Olympiazentrum and Flensburg. After 4 kilometres, the Nordfriedhof town cemetery will be seen on the left hand side
of the road.

The Commission plot is located 100 metres from the main cemetery entrance.

Historical Information:

Most of those buried in Kiel War Cemetery were airmen lost in bombing raids over northern Europe, whose graves were brought in from cemeteries and churchyards throughout Schleswig-Holstein, the Frisian Islands and other parts of nort-western Germany.

The cemetery contains 983 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War, 96 of them unidentified. There are also nine Polish war graves.