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Location: Bergisch Gladbach, Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, Bergisches Land, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Beate

March 19, 2022

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The so-called Austrian Cemetery is located in the Milchborntal along the Bensberger Schlosswanderweg. A memorial there is intended to commemorate the Austrian soldiers who died en masse of typhus during the revolutionary wars. In February 1793, a military hospital for the wounded Austrian soldiers was set up in Bensberg Castle. However, the hygienic conditions in the hospital were so bad that in 1793 a typhoid epidemic broke out, killing over 3,000 soldiers. The dead were buried in mass graves in the Milchborn valley.

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July 3, 2021

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As a memorial to the endless number of war dead, such places - usually referred to as "war cemeteries" or "soldiers' cemeteries" - are still very important today. "Now, Lord, …

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Andibonn

September 18, 2021

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Around 3,000 soldiers who died of typhus in the hospital during the Revolutionary Wars with France were buried here.

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