Old churchyard sand
The old churchyard Sand is located on Ommerbornstraße in the Sand district of Bergisch Gladbach in the Rheinisch-Bergisch district .
history
The old churchyard , together with an own church, has been documented for the 13th century. After this became dilapidated, it was replaced by a new church in 1653 in the same place. The latter was demolished in 1894 because the new parish church of St. Severin Sand had been built about 200 m further north on Herkenrather Strasse . However, the churchyard has remained as a memorial to this day, although from now on the dead were buried in a newly created cemetery.
The area of the old churchyard is enclosed with a quarry stone wall made of local limestone. This separates the sacred area from the residential buildings surrounding it. 31 grave crosses from the 17th and 18th centuries have been placed on the churchyard wall. The two oldest date from 1633. The grave slab and the memorial of Johann Peter Ommerborn , who also went down in history as the hero of Ommerborn and was buried here, deserve special mention . From 1826 to 1837 he was pastor of Sand.
Cultural monument
The old churchyard in Sand is memorable in several ways:
- It is entered in the list of architectural monuments in Bergisch Gladbach as architectural monument no .
- Under no. 15 it is in the list of soil monuments in Bergisch Gladbach as soil monument, Kirchenwüstung St. Severin, Kirchhof Sand .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Klostermann: The old churchyard in Sand, memorial of the month November 2003 , in: Heimat between Sülz and Dhünn, history and folklore in Bergisch Gladbach and the surrounding area, issue 11, 2004, publisher Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg e. V., p. 65ff.
Web links
- Entry on Alter Kirchhof Sand in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association
- Memorial of the Month 2003, Alter Kirchhof in Bergisch Gladbach Sand, accessed on 19 August 2016
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ N , 7 ° 9 ′ E