Old Cemetery (Bielefeld)
The Alte Friedhof is a cemetery in Bielefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is a listed building as a whole .
location
The old cemetery is centrally located in the Mitte district between Friedrich-Verleger-Straße and Körnerstraße in the immediate vicinity of Jahnplatz and Kesselbrink . It is therefore in the inner city area. It is 11,500 m².
layout
The green area is divided into two parts. In the southeast there is a burial ground with the chapel. The north-western part mainly comprises an almost square lawn area with a circular path on which the graves are located. Are located at the Bezäunung columbaria . The cemetery is mostly planted with lawn and ivy. A ginkgo is also one of the existing trees .
history
Until the 19th century, cemeteries were usually laid out as resting places around the respective parish churches . Because of population growth and hygiene reasons, cemeteries were laid out outside the cities at the end of the 18th century. In the general land law for the Prussian states this became mandatory. In Bielefeld, the church yards of the old town Nicolaikirche and Neustädter Marienkirche were no longer sufficient around 1800. The odor nuisance and modernization efforts during the time of the Rhine Confederation led to the closure of these burial sites in 1808. In the same year it was decided to create the cemetery outside the city limits at that time. At that time it was 14,500 m². With the construction of the Johannisfriedhofs (1874) and the Nicolaifriedhofs (1875), the facility, called the Old Cemetery from 1874, was no longer intended as a burial site, but was not de-dedicated either. On application, people from Bielefeld were allowed to be buried here, and apparently the wishes of relatives were so widespread that the cemetery even had to be enlarged. With a little over 16,000 m², it reached its greatest extent in 1893. However, in the following decades, there was a steady reduction in size. These concerned in particular the expansion of the adjacent streets, but above all the construction of the House of Technology on Jahnplatz in 1928. Due to its importance in the history of the city, the old cemetery was entered in the list of monuments in 1986. On the one hand it was an important park at that time, on the other hand it was also affected by vandalism. In 2000 the city administration decided to operate the cemetery again and founded a municipal cemetery GmbH, which also took care of the maintenance of the area. The cemetery was fenced in and has been closed at night ever since. In the following years a new chapel, new graves and a columbarium were built .
Graves and tombs
The central 8 m high sandstone column for Johann Heinrich Scherr, a former pastor and grandfather of Sophie Cruvelli, dominates . It is provided with a resurrection relief. The graves of the quadruplets are remarkable . It is the grave of sons of the Dreinhöfer family who died in infancy. Their tombs, dating from 1875, consist of four individual sandstone slabs arranged next to each other with reliefs for children. At the cemetery is further Rudolf Rempel was buried. The Bozi family also has graves there.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d History of the Old Cemetery. Friedhofs GmbH Bielefeld, accessed on December 29, 2015 .
- ↑ General Land Law for the Prussian States, Zweyter Theil, Eilfter Title. Of the Rights and Duties of the Churches and Spiritual Societies, §184
- ↑ a b c Wiese, Heidi: Places for the dead and for the living. The Bielefeld cemeteries as cultural and natural history parks. In: Beaugrand, Andreas: Stadtbuch Bielefeld 1214 - 2014. Bielefelder Verlag. Bielefeld 2013, p. 412f
Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 22.5 ″ N , 8 ° 32 ′ 7 ″ E