Waller cemetery
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The Waller Friedhof in the Walle district of Bremen , together with the adjoining Waller Park, forms a cohesive green area of considerable extent with corresponding recreational value in an otherwise densely populated residential area on the edge of the harbor.
history
After the Franco-Prussian War (1870/71) the Bremen Senate planned a replacement for the two cemeteries at Doventor and Herdentor, which were to be abandoned. The Waller Friedhof was to be created as a western addition to the likewise new Riensberger Friedhof . The required land was acquired from the nearby Achelis estate in Walle.
The competition announced in 1872 was won by the designer of the Riensberg cemetery, the landscape gardener Jancke from Aachen . Construction work, which included the excavation of moats and ponds, began in November 1872 and the inauguration took place on May 1, 1875. An extension was planned as early as 1885, in which the landscape gardener Wilhelm Benque was also involved, but it was not implemented until 1895.
Tombs and monuments
In addition to many ornate and simple tombs, there are also those in the cemetery that recall a piece of Bremen history , such as the mighty Knoop family mausoleum, built in 1878/79, in which Baron Ludwig Knoop was buried on August 20, 1894 . Or the memorial for the victims of the Bremen Soviet Republic , created by Georg Arfmann . It serves as a replacement for the work designed by Bernhard Hoetger in 1922 and destroyed by the National Socialists in 1933. There is also a place of honor for the bomb victims of World War II , as well as the graves of some prominent personalities (see below).
The neo-Gothic cemetery chapel from 1875 was a victim of bombs during World War II, which also damaged large parts of the cemetery.
After the war, the cemetery, which was expanded in 1937, was again enlarged to 29 hectares.
Chapel and crematorium The chapel, the crematorium and an urn hall were built in 1957 according to plans by Otto Bartning (Darmstadt). The result is a highly structured assembly that uses its location on a slight elevation. The path that the mourners had to cover was staged from the lowest point of the complex via a forecourt into the trapezoidal chapel room “as a path into the light”.
Gravesites
Tombs of particular interest (selection):
- Knoop Mausoleum : built in the Gothic style and is the only conspicuous object on the northwest side of the large lake. There is a canopy above the underground crypt , under which there is a life-size statue of Jesus. The mausoleum was listed as a historical monument in 2005. For years the crypt was in danger of collapsing. In summer 2009 it was extensively restored and ceremoniously made accessible again on September 18, 2009. (Location: EE 11a-d, coordinates: 53 ° 6 ′ 32 ″ N , 8 ° 46 ′ 1.6 ″ E ).
- Family grave of Friedrich Carl Ferdinand Nielsen : After the Knoop mausoleum, the second largest historical facility in the cemetery, also built in the Gothic style (location: grid square J, coordinates: 53 ° 6 ′ 23.2 ″ N , 8 ° 46 ′ 2.3 ″ O ).
- Figurative tombs: Johann Daniel Pröhl family (grid square EE), Eberhard Tolken (EE), Bertram Joh. Melchers (QQ), C. Sengstack family, Heinrich L. Löffler (grave location B 48).
- Ahrend-Oldecop family grave: The tombstone contains a detailed incorporation of a skull and below it the inscription Vita somnium breve , in German: Life a short dream (grid square PP).
F. CF Nielsen mausoleum
Chapel with urn room
Memorial for the fallen of the Bremen Soviet Republic
Tomb of the Gerstenberg division
Buried personalities
- Friedrich Aevermann - teacher and senator († 1962, grave site BB 1516)
- Friedrich Carl Albrecht - businessman († 1952, grave location QQ 284)
- Wilhelm Benque - landscape gardener and garden architect († 1895, grave location R 196)
- Adolph Bermpohl - navigation teacher and initiator of the DGzRS († 1887, grave location L 65)
- Arthur Breusing - Director of the Bremer Steuermannsschule
- Carl Friedrich Christian Buff - businessman, mayor and President of the Senate († 1891, grave location X 82)
- Nikolaus Delius - classical philologist († 1888, grave site J 137)
- Heinrich Flügel - lawyer and notary († 1940, grave location X 28)
- Johann Focke - lawyer, created the Focke Museum († 1922, grave location AA 102)
- Nicolaus Freese - businessman († 1958, grave location E 122)
- Wilhelm Fricke - poet and journalist († 1887, grave site S 253)
- Stephan von Gröning - intelligence officer († 1982, grave location NN 21)
- Lüder Halenbeck , teacher from Vegesack, local history researcher and writer († 1895, grave location EE 66a)
- Hermann Heinrich Henrici - theologian, pastor to St. Stephani († 1894, grave location Y 87)
- Otto Hotzen - doctor and poet († 1899, grave location C 39)
- Kevin († 2006)
- August Kippenberg - teacher and seminar leader († 1889, grave location EE 41a-d)
- Carl Louis Klawitter - bookseller, politician († 1953, grave site WBP II 108)
- Ludwig Knoop - businessman and industrialist († 1894, grave location EE 11a-d (mausoleum))
- Rudolph Künkler , - lawyer († 1961, grave location C 39)
- Christian Lahusen - businessman († 1898, grave location Y 9)
- Gottfried Menken - pastor and theologian († 1831, grave location C 43)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Neukirch - Freight Forwarder († 1923, grave location N 63)
- Fritz Overbeck - painter († 1909, grave location O 1)
- Friedrich Rauers - historian and archivist († 1954, grave location N 63)
- Ronny (pop singer) (1930–2011, grave site BB number 357)
- Emil Schier - Kaufmann († 1956, grave location BB 287)
- Emil Sommer - union leader, senator († 1937, grave site FF 776)
- Franz Stapelfeldt - Shipyard Director († 1954, grave location NN 183)
- Johann Stoevesandt - Director and Chief Physician († 1933, grave location Y 88)
- Franz Tecklenborg - businessman, shipowner and shipyard owner († 1886, grave location Y 96)
- Eduard Tecklenborg - businessman, shipowner and shipyard owner, son of Franz Tecklenborg († 1926, grave location Y 96)
- Wilhelm Tecklenborg - businessman and automobile industrialist (T 1948, grave complex Y 96)
- Fritz Tecklenborg - businessman and industrialist, son of Eduard Tecklenborg († 1964, grave location Y 96)
- Wilhelm Tidemann - poet († 1949, grave location Y 96)
- Paul Gerhard Tiefenthal - Pastor († 1932, grave location DD 296)
- Cornelius Rudolf Vietor - Pastor to St. Stephani (Bremen) († 1932, grave location Y 71)
- Ludwig Waigand - typesetter, trade unionist and editor († 1923, location AA 104)
- Carsten Waltjen - engineer, manufacturer and founder of AG Weser († 1880, grave location R 156)
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
- Brochure cemeteries in Bremen: Walle . Ed .: Stadtgrün Bremen.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Architecture Guide Bremen: b.zb: 33
- ^ Daily newspaper Weser-Kurier , No. 220, September 19, 2009, page 13; Article on the Internet: [1]
- ↑ http://www.stern.de/panorama/stern-crime/fall-kevin--unverzeihliches-versagen-des-staates--3320772.html
- ↑ http://schutzlos-wehrlos.de/kevin/
- ↑ Kevin Trial Before End
See also
Web links
- Cemetery plan. (PDF; 307 kB) Accessed March 8, 2011 .
- Environmental Agency Bremen: Cemetery Walle. Retrieved March 8, 2011 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 6 ′ 21 ″ N , 8 ° 46 ′ 18 ″ E