Kalevankangas Cemetery

The main gate of the Kalevankangas Cemetery.

Kalevankangas Cemetery (Finnish: Kalevankankaan hautausmaa) is a cemetery located in the Kaleva district within the city of Tampere, Finland. [1][2]

History

The Kalevankangas Cemetery was consecrated in the year of 1880. [1]

Victims of the Battle of Tampere in Kalevankangas Cemetery.

During the Battle of Tampere, Kalevankangas was the scene of much conflict. The first goal of the White Guard had been to take Kalevankangas, the barrack area and the graveyard. The Swedish volunteers were on the right, and the Jägers were on the left. The Reds were protected by the gravestones and White veterans would later recall that it seemed nearly impossible to get to them. The Battle of Tampere was the bloodiest battle of the entire Finnish Civil War, not to mention the bloodiest in Finnish history at that point in time. If you visit Kalevankangas Cemetery today you can find shattered headstones and bullet holes in other gravestones. After the battle the Reds were buried in Mass graves.[3][2][4]

In 1928, a memorial was erected to remember the victims of the Imatra disaster of 1927.

Notable interments

Gallery

Notes

  1. http://wikimapia.org/7769642/Kalevankangas-Cemetery
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd6pSZvN_Ro

Coordinates: 61°29′36″N 23°47′42″E / 61.4933°N 23.7950°E / 61.4933; 23.7950

  1. 1 2 "Kalevankangas Cemetery". Wikimapia. Retrieved April 23, 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Kalevankangas Cemetery". Tampereenseurakunnat. Retrieved April 23, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Civil War". YouTube.
  4. ↑ Ahlund, Claes (2012). Scandinavia in the First World War: Studies in the War Experience of the Northern Neutrals. Nordic Academic Press.
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