Old cemetery (Vosswinkel)
The old cemetery in the Voßwinkel district of Arnsberg is a Catholic cemetery that was inaugurated on June 11, 1838 and closed in 1973.
Geographical location
The old cemetery is located north of the center of the community, about 300 meters from the Catholic St. Urbanus Church , on the street "Zum Alten Friedhof".
investment
The entrance to the cemetery is on the west and is surrounded by a hornbeam hedge . The paths in the cemetery are laid out in the shape of a cross, the main path is lined with trees like an avenue. The graves are - with the exception of the insert at the ends and intersections of the way the priesthood and special family graves - faces east , so visitors of the cemetery, first look at the backs of the grave stones.
The following three objects, which are registered as monuments inventory in the monuments list of the city of Arnsberg , are of particular importance .
- A cemetery cross with a neo-Gothic body , framed in color in the three-nail type , erected around 1920
- The high grave of Pastor Felder (1829–1904): Tree cross on grotto architecture , neo-Renaissance grave border in wrought iron
- The von Boeselager memorial cross : a marble grave slab in front of a simple wooden cross
In addition, the grave slab of the family crypt of the noble family von Lilien und Böckenförde, known as Schüngel, residing in the house in Echthausen . The very elaborately designed crypt was, however, leveled in the 1960s.
history
First, in 1807, a Catholic cemetery was created as the successor to the burial grounds that had arisen around the St. Urbanus Church on today's Voßwinkeler Straße. This cemetery turned out to be too small, so that this Catholic cemetery, closer to the church, could already be inaugurated in 1838. In the 1950s and 1960s efforts were made to close the cemetery and set up a communal cemetery, which the then independent municipality of Vosswinkel created in 1972 due to the lack of expansion options. The Catholic cemetery was then closed in 1973. The last burial took place in 2006 due to old occupancy rights.
literature
- Voßwinkeler Rückblicke No. 13, 6/2012, pp. 8–11 as well as No. 14, 12/2012, p. 17, journal of the Voßwinkel working group
- F. Schmale "Heimatkalender Hüsten 1926", p. 34
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pfarrarchiv Voßwinkel Volume 7 (Totenbuch 1826-52), page 20
- ↑ List of monuments of the city of Arnsberg, directory no.DI 596a), b) and c)
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 2.2 " N , 7 ° 54 ′ 31.1" E