The Friedhof Am Pulverturm is both a cemetery and a memorial.
After the end of the Second World War, American soldiers found 2.249 concentration camp prisoners in the forest camp near Mettenheim, a subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp, who had died as a result of abuse, malnutrition, weakness and epidemics. The deceased were reburied in memorial cemeteries in Altötting, Ampfing, Kraiburg am Inn, Mühldorf am Inn, Burghausen and Neumarkt St. Veit. The Nazi regime kept mainly Jews from Hungary, Poland and Lithuania in the satellite camp.
On July 28, 1945, 253 unknown prisoners were buried in Burghausen. On the memorial stone of the cemetery, visitors will find the inscription: "Dedicated to the deceased LZ camp inmates by the American military government and the city of Burghausen in 1945". On September 29, 1945, the American military government officially handed over the cemetery to the city of Burghausen. Today, the Bavarian Memorials Foundation looks after the cemetery.
The cemetery is not far from the powder tower of Burghausen Castle. Those interested can reach the memorial on foot via the Alois-Buchleitner-Weg.