An Austrian First World War cemetery where 27 German and Russian soldiers are buried.
War Cemetery No. 211 in Siedlec is an Austrian cemetery from the First World War, located within the parish cemetery in Radłów municipality, Tarnów County.
It is one of about 400 war cemeteries in Western Galicia built by the War Graves Section of the Military Command in Kraków. It lies in district VIII Brzesko, which has 52 such cemeteries. The designer was Robert Motka.
Twenty-seven soldiers are buried here: one German, Peter Lippert, who died on 4 May 1915, and 26 Russian soldiers whose names are not known.
The cemetery is laid out on a rectangular plan. In the middle stands a tall metal Latin cross, beside it three smaller crosses on concrete plinths (Latin, Austrian and Lorraine) and two concrete stelae over the collective graves, in each of which four soldiers lie. The site is surrounded by a fence of concrete posts and openwork metal panels. It is kept in good condition after a general renovation.
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