Bredeney cemetery

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Main portal and cemetery chapel shortly after 1912
Cemetery chapel

The Bredeney municipal cemetery on Westerwaldstrasse houses historic resting places in the southern Essen district of Bredeney . The 7.07 hectare area now offers space for 5,475 graves. The tombs of the Krupp industrialist family are also located here .

history

War graves, First World War

In 1909 the cemetery, which was completely surrounded by a cemetery wall, was opened in the Mayor's office of Bredeney, which has been independent since 1902. Previously, since 1875, the municipality of Zweihonnschaften consisted of the localities Bredeney and Schuir . In 1915 the mayor's office in Bredeney became a district of Essen. The original cemetery chapel with tower was destroyed in World War II, as was the former entrance portal to the cemetery. The current cemetery chapel dates from 1952. In the years 1961 to 1964, the cemetery was expanded to its present area and the southern wall was thereby laid down.

Ten German war victims from the First World War lie in the Bredeney cemetery .

Krupp family cemetery

The graves of the Krupp family, which are now in a demarcated area - more or less a private cemetery - were previously located in the former Krupp cemetery on the cemetery at Kettwiger Tor , south of Essen main station, from 1910 . This part of the cemetery was mostly closed and attached to the municipal cemetery. Due to the expansion of the station forecourt, the previous cemetery in front of the Kettwiger Tor had to give way to Hohenburgstrasse in 1910, from which Therese Krupp , who died in 1850 and the widow of the company founder Friedrich Krupp , had to be reburied to freedom. Friedrich Krupp himself was buried in October 1826 in the former Protestant cemetery between Weberstrasse I and II, which had to give way to a new building plan. Today's Weberplatz is located on part of the old cemetery. Friedrich Krupp's grandfather, the merchant Friedrich Jodocus Krupp (1706–1757), was buried in the late Gothic St. Gertrudis Church, today's Essen market church .

In 1955 the Krupp cemetery on the Freiheit had to give way to urban construction measures. In addition to personalities from Essen such as Zweigert , Huyssen and Grillo , Alfred Krupp and his wife Bertha nee were here . Eichhoff , their son Friedrich Alfred Krupp and his wife Margarethe as well as the great-grandchildren Alfred, Claus and Arnold von Bohlen and Halbach were buried.

Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach died in 1950 on the Krupp estate in Blühnbach , Salzburg , where he was first buried in the von Bohlen family grave in southern Germany. After the death of his wife Bertha in 1957, Gustav's urn was transferred to the Bredeney cemetery.

The graves and tombstones of all members of the Krupp family who were previously in the city center of Essen were brought together on the grave complex created by Aloys Kalenborn in 1955 at the Bredeney cemetery. The grave chambers of the Krupp graves at Kettwiger Tor were opened in the presence of directors of the Krupp board, and the work of the reburial work was precisely documented. Today's Krupp cemetery in Bredeney reflects the ties between the Krupp family and rural Bredeney not far from Villa Hügel .

The remains of the last successor in the direct line of the ancestor of the Krupp dynasty, Arndt von Bohlen and Halbach , were deposited in 1986 in a crypt in the castle chapel of Blühnbach Castle near Salzburg, which today belongs to the American Koch Brothers .

In 2013 the funeral of the former general representative of Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation , Berthold Beitz , took place in the immediate family circle. The following year his wife was buried in the same tomb. His parents were buried in the immediate vicinity. Beitz's grave is just a stone's throw away from the Krupp's private cemetery.

Graves of the patrician and industrialist family von Waldthausen

Waldthausen mausoleum, listed building

Most of the resting places of the von Waldthausen family were, like some of the Krupp family, in the old cemetery in front of the Kettwiger Tor south of the Essen main train station, which had to be abandoned in 1955 for urban planning reasons. The majority of the family graves in the Waldthausen were moved to the Bredeney cemetery, in a row on the southern edge in field 22, while a small part was transferred to the Ostfriedhof on Saarbrücker Straße.

The large monumental mausoleum was built from Main sandstone and cast bronze and was also moved here from the old cemetery at Kettwiger Tor in 1955/1956. The original construction date of the tomb is given differently from 1856 at the earliest to 1884 at the latest (see web link to extract from the Essen list of monuments) and was placed under monument protection. On the two more recent inscription tablets, the tomb is dedicated to 21 deceased family members with a death date from 1856 to 2003.

Honorary graves of the city of Essen

  • Walter Hohmann , City Planning Officer and pioneer of space travel
  • Thea Rasche , aerobatic pilot and journalist (since April 23, 2008 grave of honor)
  • Fritz Schupp , architect
  • Hans Toussaint , politician and mayor of Essen
  • Eugen and Agnes von Waldthausen, founders of the Eugen-and-Agnes-von-Waldthausen-Platzhoff-Museum-Foundation , city councilor

Listed urn grave

listed urn grave (1914)
listed tomb Hohendahl (1906)

The urn grave of Paul Müller from 1914 is one of the first modern urn burials since pre-Christian times in what is now the city of Essen. It was transferred from Darmstadt. The first crematorium in Essen was not completed until 1935, was in the southwest cemetery and is no longer in operation today. For these reasons, this tomb was placed under monument protection in 1997.

Listed tomb Hohendahl

Friedrich Hohendahl (1847–1906) was the mine director of the Unser Fritz hard coal mine in Wanne-Eickel . The tomb created by Wilhelm Lehmbruck was moved from the Nordfriedhof Düsseldorf to the Bredeney cemetery in 1957 and declared a monument in 2002.

Other buried personalities (selection)

literature

  • Hellmut Holle (Ed.): Friedhöfe in Essen-Bredeney: People-Monuments-History (s) . Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1520-6 .

Web links

Commons : Bredeney Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Krupp family cemetery: Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~05~10508

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Essen-Bredeney war cemetery. In: Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. Accessed February 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Krupp Foundation head Berthold Beitz buried in the closest circle. In: WAZ. August 7, 2013, accessed February 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Tomb culture in the age of bourgeoisie and industrialization, p. 146. (PDF; 198 kB) (No longer available online.) Hamburg State and University Library, archived from the original on April 13, 2004 ; accessed on August 2, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; offline @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sub.uni-hamburg.de
  4. ↑ Tomb of the von Waldthausen family. (PDF; 600 kB) Monument Authority, accessed on February 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Honorary graves of the city of Essen. (PDF; 230 kB) Historical Association for the City and Abbey of Essen e. V., accessed on February 4, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Mueller urn grave. (PDF; 1.2 MB) Monument Authority, accessed on February 4, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Friedrich Hohendahl's tomb. (PDF; 605 kB) Monument Authority, accessed on February 4, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 37.6 "  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 51.6"  E