The Nagymegyer Prisoner of War Cemetery

The cemetery was established in the autumn of 1914 by the corps guarding the Nagymegyer POW camp and the Hungarian authorities of the time, after the city did not allow the burial of a large number of prisoners of war who had died of infectious diseases prevalent in the camp. The original area of the POW cemetery was 1362 m². The cemetery itself consisted of three parts. The first part is the so-called Serbian cemetery. Today, only this part of the war cemetery remains. 5464 Serbian and Montenegrin prisoners of war were buried here between 1914 and 1918. November 1. The second and third parts were liquidated in the fifties of the 20th century, and the city opened a street on its territory. Between the two world wars, the Czechoslovak state paid great attention to the care of the cemetery, which was registered as a war cemetery. After November 1938, when Nagymegyer returned to Hungary, the cemetery continued to be cared for in an exemplary manner. Unfortunately, the care of the war cemetery was neglected after World War II. After 1989, negotiations between the Slovak Republic and the Republic of Serbia began for the first time in 2001. As a result, on October 13, 2008, the prime ministers of the two states signed an agreement in Belgrade on the mutual care of military graves. As a result of the process, the Nagymegyer City Government had the former war cemetery restored in 2003. As a result of the renovation work, a cross was placed parallel to the small chapel here, trees were planted and the previously overgrown area was completely cleared.