Cemetery of German soldiers from World War II
Memorial site

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 Ogres novads, Tomes pagasts, Latvia
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It is located next to the so-called Ķeizardambis, about half a kilometer northeast of the former Auermann houses (Auermann). Ķeizardambis is an approximately 8 km long road marked on World War I German army maps with this name, which began at the former Kurland Monument (Kurland Denkmal) or popularly later called the Mātīte Monument and ended at the aforementioned former Aurmann houses. Nowadays, the Ķeizerdambis, oriented in a northeast-southwest direction, can be walked or cycled along its entire length. It stretches for approximately 4 km as a forest-earth (in places - with large gravel chips) road, 4 km - as a gravel road (coinciding with the Abermaņa and Egle - Kaulupe roads built by the Latvian State Forests). The section between the Elge - Kaulupe road and the Abermaņa road is also called the Mātīte path on LVM maps. The middle section of the Ķeizerdam crosses a beautiful inland dune massif, in the vicinity of which LIDAR maps show wartime trenches and construction sites. A white wooden cross has been erected at the Ķeizerdam at the site where 21 German army soldiers are buried (who fell around 20.09.1944).

Used sources and references:

1. Kaiserdamm, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiserdamm

2. Latvian State Forest Maps: https://www.lvmgeo.lv/kartes

3. Historical and other maps: https://vesture.dodies.lv/#m=15/56.71776/24.69606&l=O/KDW