Old cemetery (Fraulautern)
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The old cemetery is a Christian cemetery in the Fraulautern district of the district town of Saarlouis . It is not to be confused with the old cemetery in downtown Saarlouis.
Location and surroundings
The old cemetery is located in the center of the village of Fraulautern, a district of the Saarland district town Saarlouis . It has a total of three entrances, two of which are on Friedhofstrasse and one on Lebacher Strasse .
history
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At the time of the establishment of the place Fraulautern and the steadily growing population, it was decided to create a cemetery in what was then a small village. A parish church was built in the cemetery in 1540 for the place, today's Apollonia chapel (formerly the parish church of St. Trinity ). After the population grew, the monastery church of the Fraulautern Abbey (today the primary school in the old monastery ) was used as a parish church. When this had to be demolished because of its dilapidation, the previous church of today's parish church of the Holy Trinity was built only 50 meters from the Apollonia Chapel. So burials took the benefit of the monastery church as a parish church in the used just as a parish church instead. Only Protestant parishioners were buried in the Apollonia chapel then, as they are today. The oldest graves that still exist in the cemetery today were dug around 1800 and were not removed due to their historical age.
Funerals
Burial options in the cemetery are urn graves, as well as burials . Urns can be placed and buried in individual graves, urn family graves, lawn graves, natural graves, family lawn graves, as well as coffin graves. The burial can take place in a row grave , family grave or lawn grave . Individual graves with coffins have a rest period of 20 years, urn graves 15 years. In contrast to row graves, the rest period for family graves of any kind can be extended after the 20 or 15 year period has expired.
Sacred buildings
There are two sacred buildings in the cemetery. The St. Apollonia cemetery chapel , which is used for smaller Roman Catholic masses and for the funeral ceremony of Protestant parishioners, as well as the cemetery hall, which is only used to celebrate a small prayer between a church service and the burial in the grave . The laying out of the bodies takes place due to a missing here cooling in the mortuary of the newer cemetery on the cross mountain .
Special graves and graves of celebrities
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There are around 50 war graves from World War II in the cemetery . The burial ground is in the middle of the cemetery next to the cemetery hall. Furthermore, the grave of Elisabeth Neugebauer (October 14, 1891 - June 25, 1914) is known due to the special tombstone . The tombstone in the form of an approx. 3 meter high angel survived the First and Second World War almost unscathed and is still standing today.
Other well-known graves, in which former pastors and mayors of the village of Fraulautern were buried, are located nearby or in front of the tower of the Apollonia chapel .
Pastor Josef Gilles, who died in 1948, is buried at the end of the cemetery hall. Above the actual grave there is a 3 meter high stone cross on the wall of the cemetery hall.
Others
Around 1990 the city of Saarlouis planned to close the cemetery and then rededicate it to a park. However, this project was canceled due to the local majority opinion that the cemetery should be allowed to exist.
Web links
- Website of the parish of Fraulautern
- PDF file of the cemetery statutes of the district town of Saarlouis
Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 38.8 " N , 6 ° 45 ′ 56" E