Ostlandkreuz

Ostlandkreuz is the name of memorial crosses in Germany remembering the expulsion of Germans after World War II from the previous Sudetenland regions of Czechoslovakia, from the so-known as "Recovered Territories" of Poland and the Soviet a part of the former Province of East Prussia. While maximum of those crosses stand in cemeteries, some are erected as landmarks on mountains. In Germany there are numerous hundred Ostlandkreuze, most of which can be placed in cemeteries. The following list is limited to the maximum prominent Ostlandkreuze erected on exposed places.

On 24 June 1950 a 20.5-metre-excessive, timber pass, the Kreuz des Deutschen Ostens, turned into dedicated at the Uhlenklippen crags near Bad Harzburg within the presence of Ernst Reuter. This pass stood for over 47 years earlier than being blown down on 4 March 1998 in the course of a storm. On 30 September 2000 a brand new 17.7 metre-high and 6.3 metre-wide, partly wood-clad, metallic cross was devoted on the equal spot.

The construction fee got here to 180,000 DM. Around the go in a wide arc is a footpath on the out of doors of which are small difficult-hewn stone monuments dealing with the go; each one with a shield representing one of the former German provinces in Central Europe, east to its current border. The pass is checkpoint no. 122 at the Harzer Wandernadel hiking community.