Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Cimetière allemand
Rancourt, Somme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- L'oratoire du cimetière allemand en totalité (cad. ZC 35) : inscription par arrêté du 14 septembre 2016
- Protection dates
- 2016/09/14 : inscrit MH
- Type
- nécropole
- Main period of construction
- 20e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Commune
- Rancourt
- Département
- Somme
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.99633, 2.90416
- Mérimée reference
- PA80000091
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public LibraryNational Library of ScotlandDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1856 map "Dept. Des De La Somme." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le cimetière militaire allemand de Rancourt, organisé en 1921 par les autorités françaises, puis confié pour sa gestion, en 1929, au Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, est l'un des plus grands de France ; il abrite les corps de plus de 11 000 soldats allemands. La chapelle qui s'y trouve fut inaugurée le 17 septembre 1933.
English translation
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History
The German military cemetery of Rancourt, organised in 1921 by the French authorities, then entrusted for its management, in 1929, to the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, is one of the largest in France; it houses the bodies of over 11,000 German soldiers. The chapel located there was inaugurated on 17 September 1933.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.