Old cemetery (Weißenfels)
The old cemetery or Nikolaifriedhof and today's city park of Weißenfels is a listed cemetery in the city of Weißenfels in Saxony-Anhalt . In the local register of monuments , the old cemetery is listed as a monument area under registration number 094 11327 . Today's Weißenfels cemetery is located southeast of the Old Cemetery.
history
When the plague broke out in 1520 , so many people died in a short time that the cemetery behind the Marienkirche was no longer sufficient. It was decided by the city fathers to bury the dead outside the city in the water-filled trench of the rifle guild founded in 1518 . The water was diverted and the area was cut down. The Nikolaikapelle near the Nikolaitor became a cemetery chapel. The dead were buried here until 1902, after which the capacity was exhausted.
The city of Weißenfels left the site to the Weißenfelser Beautification Association. This converted the cemetery into a local recreation park for the city population. Older graves were cleared above ground, trees were planted and flower beds were created. Some monuments were erected over time. After a heavy thunderstorm triggered a mudslide in January 1913 and washed away some coffins, all of the burials were opened and moved to the new cemetery. Only the burial places of the Nolle, Mundt and Iglisch families have remained on the old cemetery grounds to this day. The last to be completed was the literary corner with the memorials / tombs for Novalis and Müllner . This ended the work of the Beautification Association.
The city park was named during the Third Reich Hindenburg Park , then Thälmannpark before its present name city park received.
Plague column
A plague column was erected in the plague cemetery in 1535 . The plague column was a cross standing on a pedestal and two figures of saints, which were consecrated to the patron saint of shooters St. Fabian Sebastian. During a thunderstorm in 1768, lightning struck the cross. The cross was completely destroyed and the rest of the plague column was torn down.
Monuments
Adolf Muellner Memorial
The Adolf Müllner monument is located in the so-called Dichtereck of the city park. It was built for Adolf Müllner , a writer , stage poet and lawyer . It is a small square with an inscription tablet on which is written: Adolph Müllner Geb. d. Oct 18, 1774, d. June 11, 1829 . Due to the simplicity of the monument, it is believed to be the original tombstone . This assumption is also supported by the literary entertainment sheets of 1838, as this stone is mentioned there in connection with his grave. The construction of the stone goes back to 1829, the year Müllner died.
Another memorial for Adolf Müllner is on the house where he lived and where he died. Furthermore, a street in Weißenfels was named after him.
Monument to the victims of fascism
At the height of Nikolaistrasse there is a stele as a memorial to the victims of fascism; it is crowned by a sacrificial bowl . After German reunification , the original inscription was expanded. An inscription today reads Weißenfelser Antifaschisten, murdered in the years 1939–1945 and Weißenfelser victims of the Holocaust 1933–1945 as well as the names of the murdered and the victims. Another inscription begins on the north side of the stele and runs counterclockwise. Put together it reads Immortal Sacrifice - you sank there , a line of text from the Russian funeral march Immortal Sacrifice .
Cenotaph of the 66th Reserve Infantry Regiment
In the vicinity of the monument to the victims of fascism are the remains of the memorial of the Reserve Infantry Regiment 66 of the First World War . The 66 Reserve Infantry Regiment was stationed in Weißenfels, Naumburg and Altenburg . The memorial was created by Erich Haase from Weißenfels for the more than 2,500 fallen soldiers of the infantry regiment and inaugurated on May 31, 1925. A soldier kneels on a pedestal ; the soldier's head is no longer there today. There are several memorial plaques on the base of the memorial . The inscription on a plaque reads:
Our
134 officers, 2,472 NCOs and
men of the Reserve Infantry Regiment No.
who died on the Western Front in the 1914-1918 World War . 66
to memory.
1914 Solesnes Marne Aisne (Norvon Fontenoy)
1915 Soissons Champagne Tatinre
1916 Champagne Verdun (Saittewich) Argonnen Somme
1917 Verdun (Joseswald) Aisne Champagne
1918 Breakthrough battle (Lassigny) Chemin des Dames Aggressive battles
on the Marne and in the Champagne
Verdun retreat battles
The places mentioned are the battlefields with the highest casualties.
Another plaque bears the inscription:
To honor the fallen, to remember the living, to be a role model for posterity.
Established on May 31, 1925 by the Comradeship Regiments of Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 66
The memorial plaques are decorated with steel helmets and iron crosses .
Family burial site
There is still a grave for a soldier who fell in World War I. This is a tombstone for a captain of the 156th Infantry Regiment. The tombstone is damaged and lies next to its base. The inscription on the tombstone reads In memory of my dear son ... he died a hero's death .
Memorial stone to the coalition wars
On a small boulder is the inscription 1813 - 1913 and The god who made iron grow, he did not want servants from the song of the fatherland. This boulder was donated in 1913 by the Weißenfelser Beautification Association and is intended to commemorate the coalition wars. The memorial stone is one of many that was erected on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig .
Novalis monument
The Novalis memorial stands in the so-called poets' corner of the city park and was erected in honor of Friedrich von Hardenberg , a writer and philosopher . The erection of the first monument is said to have been in 1872 on his 100th birthday; it was replaced by today's bust by the sculptor Fritz Schaper in 1901. Behind the bust is the tombstone of Novalis. There is a memorial plaque on Novalis' former home, now a museum and city library.
City boy
In the city boys, colloquially orphans, there is a sculpture in bronze casting process . The clients were the Oettler brothers, the owners of the local brewery. The sculpture was created by the sculptor Paul Juckoff from Schkopau . The model for the sculpture was the messenger boy Ernst Hoffmann, who worked for Juckoff. In the base is the inscription Because I'm happy , this goes back to the boy's answer, why he is always so happy. Originally, two sculptures of different sizes were created for the breweries in Weißenfels and Zeitz and erected in 1903. The modernization of the breweries due to the conversion of the transport system threatened to damage the little Ernst in particular. Therefore, the Oettler brothers decided to donate the sculptures to the two cities. At that time the old cemetery was turned into a park and the town boy was given his new place there. The inauguration took place in 1905. During the Second World War , material important to the war effort, e.g. a. also bronze , to be brought to collection points. An employee of the city administration prevented the sculpture from melting down by sawing it off at night and burying it in the Leißlinger forest. At the end of the war, he informed his nephew of the location because he was dying and wanted the sculpture to be put up again. After the end of the war, the nephew dug up the sculpture and put it back on its base during the night. Since the Zeitz sculpture had been melted down, an impression was made of the Weißenfelser and a new sculpture was made from it for Zeitz. From 1985 to 1987 the town boy was restored and then put back in its original place, but on a new base.
source
- War memorial at the old cemetery in Weißenfels Online , accessed on September 26, 2017.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedhof II , Weißenfels im Bild, accessed October 20, 2017.
- ↑ Small question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt
- ↑ Stadtgarten Weißenfels in the picture, accessed on September 27, 2017.
- ↑ Adolf Müllner Monument Weissenfels in the picture, accessed on September 29, 2017.
- ↑ Victims of Faschimus Weißenfels in the picture, accessed on September 27, 2017.
- ↑ Weissenfels Regiment War Memorial in the picture, accessed on September 27, 2017.
- ↑ Napoleonic Wars Weissenfels in the picture, accessed on September 27, 2017.
- ↑ Novalis monument Weißenfels in the picture, accessed on September 29, 2017.
- ↑ Stadtjunge Weißenfels in the picture, accessed on October 10, 2017.
Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 54.5 ″ N , 11 ° 58 ′ 17.4 ″ E