!!!Kriegerdenkmäler

War Memorials, monuments commemorating soldiers killed in action, 
either as former residents of the community or on a nearby 
battlefield, erected in churches or public places. In the 19th century 
war memorials were erected at  Aspern (1858) and on  Bergisel mountain 
near Innsbruck and various other places. After the First and Second 
World Wars memorials were put up in virtually all major communities. 
In some cases chapels or historic buildings were converted into 
memorials (''Aeusseres Burgtor'' in Vienna, 1933/34). In 1945 the 
Soviet Army  erected a memorial on Schwarzenbergplatz square in Vienna 
in honour of its soldiers killed in action.


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