Haunstetten old cemetery
The old cemetery Haunstetten is a cemetery opened in 1870 in the Haunstetten-Siebenbrunn district of Augsburg .
history
Until November 1870 the deceased Haunstetter citizens were buried around the parish church of St. Georg. When the square became too small in the 19th century due to the increasing population, the community of Haunstetten built a “new” cemetery with a morgue on today's Mayor-Widmeier-Strasse. The inauguration took place on October 17th, 1870. As early as 1890, the first expansion by around half was necessary.
In 1932 the morgue was rebuilt. In May 1951, the new cemetery bell was consecrated, which was presumably donated by the then mayor FX Widmeier. In 2009 the morgue was renovated and converted into a funeral hall.
Special features in the cemetery
- The “Path through Life” memorial as a cemetery cross
Created by Christian Angerbauer , a Haunstetter sculptor, it was installed in 1972. On it the path of man through life is shown and referred to the "believing and wandering people of God".
- The priest's grave of the parish of St. George
The deceased pastors of the parish of St. Georg are buried in it. The grave monument also comes from the Haunstetter sculptor Christian Angerbauer.
- The memorial to the civilian victims of the air raids in World War II
The original facility was redesigned by the city of Augsburg in the early 1990s based on a design proposal by Philipp Jäger from Augsburg. Until 2006 there were only grave tablets here for the victims of the bombing raids in World War II, who were buried in the mass grave located there. Many civilian victims were buried in family graves, but most of them have since been dissolved. The Kulturkreis Haunstetten eV recorded these civilian victims in years of research (57 names and dates). A plaque on the memorial now also commemorates them.
- The mausoleum of the Käß couple
The entrepreneur Johann Georg Käß (1823–1903) had been based in Haunstetten since 1844 . Georg-Käß-Platz, located in the center of town, is named after him as the benefactor of the Haunstetten community. In 1903/4 Käß had the Ulm architect Karl Bauer (1868–1903) build a tomb for himself, his wife and daughter Marie Countess Tattenbach in the style of a small Greek Orthodox church: an octagonal domed central building made of limestone. The artistic center is the dome mosaic by Wilhelm Köppen from Munich. In 2009, the city of Augsburg renovated it, including the outdoor area, at the request of the Haunstetten cultural district.
- Gravesites of honorary citizens of the former Haunstetten community
Haunstetten has three honorary citizens from his independent time, who are all buried here: Mayor Franz Xaver Widmeier, Marie Countess Tattenbach (1867–1947) and Pastor Eberhard Spickermann (* 1852 in Bixthausen; † 1926 in Haunstetten).
Special features in the outside area of the cemetery
Memorial to the fallen soldiers of the First World War
It was ceremoniously unveiled for the fallen Haunstetter soldiers on August 1st, 1920 and stood by St. George's Church until the 1960s. It was created by the Munich architect Ludwig Grothe and the sculptor Mathias Brenner from Göggingen. The inscription reads: “In the faithful memory of our brothers who died in the war of 1914-1918 fighting for the fatherland. Dedicated by the Haunstetten community ”. At the top of all six sides is the dedication “Our Heroes”, below the names. An iron cross can be seen on the top of the monument.
Memorial plaques for those who fell in World War II
Until 2010 there was no memorial for the fallen soldiers of World War II . After several years of research, their names were found by the Haunstetten e. V. determined. Commemorative plaques with their names were placed on the cemetery wall in the area of the memorial for the fallen soldiers of the First World War . An attached geographic map shows where the final resting places of the fallen are.
literature
- On the other side and beyond. The Augsburg Cemetery Guide , 2nd edition, ed. from Mammut-Verlag Leipzig, 2009.
- Hans Frei: Christian Angerbauer. His artistic life's work in Bavarian Swabia , BRV-Verlag, Augsburg, 2000.
- Anja Hoffmann: Monumental painting in the field of tension between historicism and Art Nouveau. The work of Wilhelm Köppen (1876–1917) , Bonn, 2009.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 55.2 ″ N , 10 ° 54 ′ 40.2 ″ E