The soldiers resting here were prisoners of war from the First World War (1914-1918). They were employed in peat cultivation and agriculture. According to statements from older citizens and the 1939 chronicle by Pastor Hermann Hand, their deaths were caused by consuming the poisonous hemlock plant. The hemlock apparently resembled a plant in the prisoners’ homeland that was edible (wild chervil).
All of them died from poisoning within the short period from March to July 1915. After that, no more deaths occurred once the consumption of this plant was prohibited.
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Grave No. 20 is occupied by a young Polish man who died in Schleswig in 1944 and found his final resting place here in the municipal cemetery. The cause of his death is unknown.
Written by Heinrich Feddersen
This page was created through the initiative of Heinrich Feddersen and is not part of the official village tour or the original sponsorship.
