Old cemetery (Lindau)
The old cemetery in the Lindau district of Aeschach , therefore also known as the old Aeschach cemetery , is essentially a historical cemetery from the 16th and 17th centuries.
history
The old cemetery owes its origin to the plague , which raged in the imperial city of Lindau around 1510 and claimed numerous victims. The only cemetery on Lindau Island at that time had become useful, and people had to contend with contaminated water. So they looked for a new burial place outside the city gates; the choice fell on a hill on the Lindau mainland, which was acquired by the Lindau monastery in 1512 for 500 guilders . The area in Aeschach combined the advantage of relative seclusion with good accessibility at the same time. In addition, the decaying ancient villa of a wealthy brigantine was nearby Bürger whose stones were used to build the walls and the cemetery chapel.
The funeral services continued to be held on the island in St. Stephen's Church. The new chapel, built in 1515 and therefore unused, served the Krell patrician family from then on as a burial place. The chapel will later be known as the Krellsche Kapelle .
Other patrician families followed the example of the Krell and were buried on the cemetery grounds. Numerous aedicules from the 16th and 17th centuries have been preserved, which were built on the cemetery walls based on the Italian model to protect the sometimes richly lined family tombs. Members of a lower class were buried in the meadow.
Already almost 100 years after its construction, in 1616, the cemetery was struggling with space problems and could no longer meet the need for burial space. An extension to the north to include the so-called Middle Cemetery was considered. In the course of a created Armsünderplatz that on unconsecrated ground space offered for deceased sinners of all stripes, non-Christians or unbaptized infants who died.
The Reformation, which took place in Lindau in 1528, brought with it a burial ban for Catholics who had to resort to the cemeteries of neighboring villages. But after the imperial city lost its independence and became part of Bavaria in 1805, the number of Catholics in the form of civil servants, soldiers and teachers increased so much that in 1826 the establishment of a catholic cemetery part strictly separated from the evangelical parts and later, in 1848, the Construction of the Catholic Ulrichskapelle was necessary. In order to prevent Catholics from being buried in the Protestant part, there were also many Protestant citizens who were willing to donate and supported the construction and expansion financially.
Due to the high volume of groundwater and the resulting long rest period, there was always a lack of space. In 1915, the old cemetery was finally closed, and the municipal cemetery has been located on Rennerle , then on the outskirts. In 1921 the old cemetery was transferred from the church to the city. Twenty years later, in 1941, it was converted into a park after the aedicules had been placed under monument protection and the row graves had been leveled. Twenty years later, the cemetery lost numerous death tablets due to "clean-up work" ordered by the authorities.
The Friends of Lindau Cultural Heritage Alter Friedhof eV, founded in 2003, has set itself the task of preserving the old cemetery. Urn burials have been permitted again in the Old Cemetery since 2010.
meaning
As a protected, well-preserved cemetery from the Reformation period, the old cemetery in Lindau is a rarity in Germany. Individual tombs, which reflect the wealth and importance of early modern Lindau and its citizens in their rich furnishings, are of art historical value. Furthermore, the cemetery can be counted among the few cemeteries on German soil that were built in the style of a Campo Santo .
literature
- Rosmarie Auer: The old Lindau cemetery in Aeschach. In: Museumsverein Lindau (ed.): Neujahrsblatt 43 , 2003
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Wilfried Vögel: Struggle for the preservation of the old Lindau cemetery in Aeschach. ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Lindauer Bürgerzeitung 11/2007
- ↑ a b c Rosmarie Auer: On the history of the old Lindau cemetery , accessed on October 4, 2014
- ↑ Information on burials on the website of the Förderverein, accessed on October 4, 2014
Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '16 " N , 9 ° 41' 27.4" E