Albert Schulte Park
The Albert-Schulte-Park (also old cemetery or station cemetery ) is a green area and a former cemetery in the center of Worms . It is named after Albert Schulte , who was the full-time mayor of the city of Worms from 1924.
Geographical location
The park is located northwest of the Worms core city. It is bordered to the north by Gaustraße , to the east by Renzstraße , to the south by Goethestraße and the central bus station and to the west by the north end of Worms main station .
history
The cemetery laid out in 1840 by the city of Worms replaced several cemeteries north of the city: the Pestkirchhof in the area of today's Remeyerhofstrasse , the Amandusfriedhof on today's Amandusgasse and the reformed cemetery on Gaustraße . It was not until 1856 that he received a morgue near the main entrance in the central axis of the cemetery complex. When it was set up, it was well outside the built-up area of the city. In 1878 the cemetery was closed. It was already occupied again. Burials were only allowed to continue in hereditary burials. In addition, the city had grown rapidly towards the station in the previous 25 years and the cemetery was now in the built-up area, so that it could not be expanded. It was replaced by the Rheingewannfriedhof.
In the first half of the 1890s, the state and the Hessian Ludwigsbahn attempted to use the former cemetery grounds as an extension to the Worms main station, but failed due to local resistance. Plans to convert the former cemetery into a park have existed since the end of the 19th century. They were implemented in the 1920s. Another redesign took place in the 1960s when a mini golf course was built in the north of the park . In the course of this redesign, the former morgue was demolished and replaced by a fountain. At the same time, the park was named after Albert Schulte. Some splendid grave monuments and the burial place of the Keim family on the southern wall of the cemetery have been preserved. Pastor Eduard Keim, who is also buried here, was the main promoter for the construction of the Luther memorial in Worms.
By the beginning of the 21st century, the park developed into a drug trading center and was avoided in the evenings. An "AG Park" was set up as a working group for the Worms police, clearing work made the park clearer and brighter and public events were held in the park.
Monument protection
The park, with its network of paths largely preserved from the time as a cemetery, forms a monument zone with preserved historical monuments and grave monuments - the latter especially in the northeastern part . These include:
Tombs
sorted by year of origin
- Crypt chapel of the Doerr and Reinhart families , neo-Gothic central building
- Tomb for Peter Joseph Valckenberg († 1837), cubic sandstone stele
- Tomb for the Grand Ducal Hessian Lieutenant General Georg Johann Freiherr von Schäffer-Bernstein († 1838), sandstone grave plate with an iron cross
- Tomb for Wilhelm Valckenberg († 1847), cubic limestone stele
- Tombs for the Althof couple († 1857 and 1869), two antique grave steles made of yellow sandstone
- Tomb for Catherine Nodes von Warburg († 1868), historicizing sandstone stele with limestone slab
- Tomb for Dr. Georg Friedrich Renz († 1891), neoclassical stele
Monuments
- Veterans memorial, neo-classical for the fallen from the Napoleonic Wars, 1848 by Aloys Boller
- War memorial 1870/71, Germania on sandstone base, inaugurated in 1874.
literature
- Gerold Bönnen : History of the city of Worms . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005. ISBN 3-8062-1679-7
- Irene Spille: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate 10 = city of Worms. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1992. ISBN 978-3-88462-084-7
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bönnen, p. 462.
- ^ Bönnen, p. 466.
- ↑ Spille, p. 70.
- ^ Fritz Reuter: Karl Hofmann and "the new Worms. Urban development and municipal building 1882–1918 “ = Sources and research on Hessian history 91. Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt and Historical Commission for Hesse , Darmstadt and Marburg 1993. ISBN 3-88443-180-3 , p. 439, note 88.
- ^ Bönnen, p. 466.
- ^ Fritz Reuter: Karl Hofmann and "the new Worms. Stadtentwicklung und Kommunalbau 1882–1918 “ = Sources and research on Hessian history 91. Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt and Historical Commission for Hesse , Darmstadt and Marburg 1993. ISBN 3-88443-180-3 , pp. 250f.
- ^ Bönnen, p. 567.
- ↑ a b c General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Worms. ( Memento from June 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Mainz 2018 [ Version 2020 is available. ] , P. 4 (PDF; 5.0 MB).
- ^ Wormser Wochenblatt: Albert-Schulte-Park should finally become a "fear-free space". (No longer available online.) In: w1-extrablatt.de. Archived from the original on November 4, 2014 ; Retrieved November 4, 2014 .
- ^ Bönnen, p. 461.
Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 16.4 " N , 8 ° 21 ′ 31.5" E