Directly behind the monument by Anton Hanak is the part of the cemetery for the dead of the First World War. Around 15,000 soldiers from different nationalities are buried here.
Before the First World War military monuments were reserved exclusively for high-ranking personalities such as commanders and generals. In this respect the war led to a paradigm shift: now people wanted to have monuments in remembrance of the ‘ordinary’ soldiers and to ‘honour’ them in this way. War memorials dedicated to the soldiers who fell in the First (and later also the Second) World War were put up in many towns and even small villages.
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