Overseas American military cemetery
Lorraine American Cemetery
France
Location
Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial, Rue de Fayetteville, Saint-Avold, France
Visiting
- Address
- Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial, Rue de Fayetteville, Saint-Avold, France
- Phone
- +33 (0)3 87 92 07 32
- Visiting hours
- 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Open to the public daily including host country holidays, except for December 25 and January 1.
- Accessibility
- Not yet verified
- Official page
- abmc.gov
Admission and hours, from the American Battle Monuments Commission
Business Hours
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9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Please note, admission to the cemetery ends at 4:45 p.m., 15 minutes before closing time.
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Open to the public daily including host country holidays, except for December 25 and January 1.
When open, a staff member is on duty in the visitor building to answer questions and escort relatives to grave and memorial sites.
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Admission is FREE and does not require booking in advance.
Pay your respects
Visitors to veterans’ graves sometimes leave a coin on the headstone to show that someone came. You can leave a symbolic coin here. No money is involved, and nothing about you is published. About the custom, and what each coin is said to mean.
About this cemetery
Reproduced from the American Battle Monuments Commission’s own description of this cemetery, retrieved November 11, 2026. This is the agency’s text, unedited; it is not independent research by this site.
The Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial in France covers 113.5 acres and contains the largest number of graves of our military dead of World War II in Europe, a total of 10,481.
Their headstones are arranged in nine plots in a generally elliptical design extending over the beautiful rolling terrain of eastern Lorraine and culminating in a prominent overlook feature. Most of the dead here were killed while driving the German forces from the fortress city of Metz, France toward the Siegfried Line and the Rhine River. Initially, there were over 16,000 Americans interred in the St. Avold region in France, mostly from the U.S. Seventh Army’s Infantry and Armored Divisions and its cavalry groups. St. Avold served as a vital communications center for the vast network of enemy defenses guarding the western border of the Third Reich.
The memorial, which stands on a plateau to the west of the burial area, contains ceramic operations maps with narratives and service flags. High on its exterior front wall is the large figure of St. Nabor, the martyred Roman soldier overlooking the silent host. On each side of the memorial, and parallel to its front, stretch the Tablets of the Missing on which are inscribed 444 names. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified. The entire area is framed in woodland.
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Sources
- American Battle Monuments Commission. Cemeteries and memorials. U.S. government work (public domain). Retrieved November 11, 2026. Used for: name, location and contact details, and the hours and description where shown.
- American Battle Monuments Commission. Lorraine American Cemetery (official page). Retrieved November 11, 2026.