Old church yards and gravestones in Huerth
In the small villages of today's town of Hürth , a churchyard surrounding or directly adjoining the church, with its grave crosses, was part of the townscape. As in most of the rural areas, in the Hürth places, until the funeral system was reorganized by a new legal ordinance (General Land Law for the Prussian States, § 184) in 1794, the church field was still used.
In contrast, in the fast-growing, medium-sized and large cities in the surrounding area, central cemeteries were rebuilt on the outskirts for preventive reasons (risk of epidemics) and to deal with a lack of space within the town.
Churchyards and old tombs
In some of the Hürth churches, the remains of these old burial places are still preserved today, for example on the south side of the St. Katharina Church in Alt-Hürth , on the west side of the St. Dionysius Church in Gleuel , on small areas on the west and east side of the St. Johann Baptist in Kendenich and on the north and south side of St. Martin on the Kirchberg in Fischenich .
Alstädten-Burbach
The former monastery Marienborn above the village was founded in 1233. In addition to a lonely grave cross on the old monastery grounds, a grave slab made of trachyte now in Gleuel reminds of the sisters of the Cistercian monastery. The plate from 1577 has the following inscription:
- Anno 1577 the 16th dachs noue (bris) starff the clergy suister Catharina vo (n) Polhem deisses co (n) nent (s) a suister de (r) got genade .
Alt-Huerth
In the 18th century the members of the manorial Hürth family "von Harff" were buried in a crypt in front of the high altar of the church. Other parishioners found their final resting place in the churchyard. This area has always been owned by the Church. In 1866, the old churchyard was enlarged by part of the castle garden of the former castle that was acquired by the Christian community.
The area of the former churchyard, between the old and the new church in Alt-Hürth, was redesigned into a small green area by the city administration. Grave crosses from the 17th and 18th centuries are loosely arranged there. The materials of these gravestones, which have been severely affected by emissions over time, consist of basalt , dolomite , trachyte and limestone . One of these steles tells of a deceased person who is considered to be one of the first settlers known by name in the Hürth district of Knapsack . It is a stone from 1694.
The inscription of the stone:
- AD 169 (4) the 22nd of 7ber is the first Matthias Peutzs from Knapsack god blessed him gentlemen fell asleep amen .
The associated church book entry reads: Ao 1694, September 25th, Theiss Pütz on the Knabsack. Another old grave cross in the old churchyard (1600) is a basalt cross that is now walled in in the reveal of the doorway to the building of the Catholic kindergarten next to the church.
Effers
The previous building of today's parish church of St. Mary's Birth was on the eastern side of Kaulardstrasse in Efferen . The old churchyard, which has been preserved in a reduced area, on Klosterstrasse, which flows into Kaulardstrasse, may have once belonged to the church grounds. The destruction of the last world war obviously not only affected the old church, because in contrast to other preserved tombs in local churches, no historical tombs (apart from a Roman burial chamber) are mentioned in Efferen.
In the municipality of Kriel , which formerly belonged to the mayor's office of Efferen , the new “Decksteiner Friedhof” (1869 to 1917) was built by the municipality of Efferen to replace the ancient churchyard at Krieler Dömchen .
Fischenich
The old Fischenicher Kirchhof enclosed the church building in 1840 up to the east side. Its last expansion took place in 1842, when the then owner of the Fronhof sold part of the area used as a vineyard to the church for a purchase price of 100 thalers . In addition, they accepted her condition, which was linked to the sale, of reserving a chair for her only to be used by her as long as she was resident in Fischenich.
On the north side of the old church, which was demolished in 1890, a crypt is said to have been uncovered under the former north conche , known as the "Marienchörchen" , in which the knights of Fischenich were buried in earlier times.
Gleuel
The old church, probably built in the 11th century, was a Romanesque- style structure. Her long nave closed with a vaulted semicircular apse of the choir . Next to this was the sacristy , under which there was a crypt . In Gleuel , too , the nobility had the privilege of being buried as close as possible to the Holy of Holies . Probably the "von Gleuel", the "Schall von Bell" and the following noble families, as well as Ferdinand von Kollen (Cöln), Mr. zu Gleuel and two-time mayor of Cologne , were buried in this church. Ferdinand died in the castle in 1685 and was buried on October 11th of the same year in the church of St. Dionysius , probably under the choir. Successors of the families listed above as well as those who died from the clergy of the community were buried in the churchyard in Prussian times, like all other citizens of the Catholic denomination before . The old burial site at the parish church of the district is the largest in the city of Hürth in terms of its area and the number of preserved tombs.
Hermulheim
At the point where from an own chapel of a Frankish Salhofbesitzers a small church had developed, who built German Order 1264-1292 one-nave church in Romanesque style. The old churchyard of Hermülheim was located at the church, which was only separated by a moat and in front of the former castle of the village . Both facilities served the Hermülheimers (with the residents of the hamlet “Pesch” and those of the “Villehaus”) for a period of 600 years. There in front of the castle they visited their place of worship and buried their deceased relatives next to it. In his remarks on the history of the Hermülheim church, “Rosellen” concludes:
The churchyard encloses the old church on all sides. It has been the annexum of the latter since ancient times . Only a small part was procured by the Clvil parish in 1862 to enlarge it . Just as the old churchyard at the former castle belongs to history and became today's castle park, its successor on Bonnstrasse, which was closed a long time ago, is currently doing well. It is being redesigned into another green area in the area.
Kendenich
The aristocratic Kendenich “rule” was also buried for a long time alongside the deceased of the clergy within the church. These people were later also buried in the churchyard. However, their importance was often set apart from the graves of other deceased by a magnificently designed grave site.
The grave of some members of the von Kempis and von Groote families is located northeast of the church on the old churchyard wall. Nine remaining grave crosses from the 17th century on the west side of the nave are worth seeing. Five of these were made of trachyte, two of basalt, one each of sandstone and one of white marble .
The place Kalscheuren consisted only of the Kalscheurer Hof until the second half of the 19th century and belonged to the parish of Kendenich until 1930, so it is likely that the residents of the court and the later settlement were buried in the churchyard there.
Stotzheim
The Stotzheimer congregation stood for their worship for a long time only a small, surrounded by the cemetery, chapel available. Only with the larger follow-up buildings, the first St. Brictius Church built in 1778 , and as a result of the new legal provisions, the churchyard was no longer used and a new cemetery was set up on the western edge of the village. The nine preserved ancient grave crosses were also removed from their original place and placed again in the small mourning hall of the new cemetery. Of the gravestones, the legible oldest of which shows the year of death of "Paul Tolch", a "kitchen helper", with the year 1524, eight are made of basalt and one of trachyte from the Drachenfels . Most of them are tombs of the once wealthy tenants of the five large Stotzheimer Höfe, Schlebuschhof , Küchenhof, Hospitalhof, Abtshof and Villenhof.
literature
- Robert Wilhelm Rosellen: History of the parishes of the deanery Brühl . JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1887
- Clemens Klug: Hürth - Art Treasures and Monuments , Hürth 1978
- Joachim Bauer / Carmen Kohls: "Cologne under French and Prussian rule", in: Werner Adams / Joachim Bauer (eds.) "From the Botanical Garden to Urban Green - 200 Years of Cologne Green" (Stadtspuren - Monuments in Cologne, Volume 30) Bachem Verlag , Cologne 2001 ISBN 3-7616-1460-8
Individual evidence
- ↑ Clemens Klug: Hürth - Kunstschätze und Denkmäler , p. 78. Hürth 1978
- ^ Robert Wilhelm Rosellen, p. 341
- ^ Robert Wilhelm Rosellen, p. 349
- ↑ Clemens Klug: Hürth - Kunstschätze und Denkmäler , p. 91. Hürth 1978
- ↑ Clemens Klug, p. 61
- ↑ Joachim Bauer / Carmen Kohls, p. 82
- ^ Robert Wilhelm Rosellen, p. 236 f
- ↑ see building description St. Martin (Fischenich)
- ↑ Clemens Klug, Art Treasures and Monuments
- ^ Robert Wilhelm Rosellen, p. 304
- ↑ Clemens Klug, p. 81 ff
- ^ Robert Wilhelm Rosellen, p. 331
- ↑ Clemens Klug, p. 95 f
- ^ Robert Wilhelm Rosellen, p. 547
- ↑ Clemens Klug, p. 107
