Old Niendorf cemetery
The Alte Niendorfer Friedhof is a cemetery in the city of Hamburg . In the churchyard around the market church , burials began around 1770. In 1847 the cemetery was expanded further. Today it has a size of around 4.5 hectares, on which there are 2350 graves in which 6500 people are buried.
location
The cemetery is located on Niendorfer Marktplatz / Kollaustraße in Hamburg's Niendorf district , not far from one of the runways at Hamburg Airport .
history
In 1770 the market church was completed. 72 linden trees were planted around the church, which bordered the churchyard at that time. The trees stood around the church for around 200 years before they rotten and had to be felled.
The cemetery was expanded further south as early as 1847. This area too quickly became too small and was expanded in 1882. In 1903 the New Niendorfer Friedhof was opened across the street. Burials still take place in both cemeteries today.
In 1956 part of the cemetery fell victim to the widening of Kollaustraße. Most of the graves affected were reburied.
Graves
The Old Niendorfer Friedhof is one of the historically most important cemeteries in Hamburg , along with the Hammer , Nienstedten and Ohlsdorf cemeteries. What makes it unique is the high number of large family tombs.
There is also a small field with sandstone steles from the early 19th century that have been placed in a museum.
Prominent personalities
- Members of the Berenberg-Gossler family :
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John von Berenberg-Gossler - Hamburg banker and politician († 1943)
A tall, red sandstone slab with the names of the deceased on top of the cemetery is visible from afar. - Cornelius Freiherr von Berenberg-Gossler - Hamburg banker, brother of John († 1953)
- Johann Freiherr Berenberg-Gossler - Hamburg banker, father of John and Cornelius († 1913)
On the bronze tombstone is John Freiherr Berenberg-Gossler , not his real first name Johann . - Herbert von Berenberg-Goßler (killed in northern France in 1918), anatomist
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John von Berenberg-Gossler - Hamburg banker and politician († 1943)
- Members of the Amsinck family :
- Johannes Amsinck - businessman († 1879)
- Wilhelm Amsinck (1821–1909) - son of Johannes Amsinck, Hamburg businessman. He had the so-called Amsinck Villa (at Amsinckpark 18) built by the architect Martin Haller from 1868 to 1870 .
- Ludwig Erdwin Amsinck - Hamburg merchant, son of Johannes Amsinck († 1897)
- Martin Garlieb Amsinck - shipbuilder & shipowner, son of Johannes Amsinck († 1905)
- Members of the Merck family :
- Ernest William Merck (born June 5, 1854 in Manchester † October 9, 1939 in Hamburg ) - partner in HJ Merck & Co. and on the supervisory boards of Guanowerke AG and Norddeutsche Bank AG
- Erwin Johannes Merck - partner in HJ Merck & Co., son of Ernest William Merck and buried in his family grave († 1947)
- Heymann family - They built the small mausoleum in 1892
- Adolph Godeffroy - Hamburg businessman and member of parliament, founder and first director of Hapag († 1893)
- Joachim Mähl - local poet († 1909)
- Hermann Fölsch - Hamburg merchant and shipowner († 1920)
- Max Sauerlandt - Director of the Museum of Arts and Crafts († 1934) (Dept. VI R. 29)
- Johannes August Lattmann - German businessman, banker and Hamburg senator († 1936)
- Max von Schinckel - Hamburg banker († 1938)
- Axel von Ambesser (actually Axel Eugen Alexander von Oesterreich ) - actor, film director and author († 1988)
- Josef "Jupp" Posipal - German soccer player and world champion from 1954 († 1997)
- Günther Jerschke - German actor († 1997)
- Evelyn Hamann - German actress († 2007)
Fölsch family grave (detail)
Grave complex of the Albertinen Diakoniewerk
Ernest Merck
Wilhelm Amsinck's family crypt
Evelyn Hamann
literature
- Barbara Leisner, Norbert Fischer : The Cemetery Guide - Walks to known and unknown graves in Hamburg and the surrounding area. Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-7672-1215-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information board of the cemetery, as of early 2009
- ↑ Surname: Merck on TribalPages , accessed October 18, 2012
Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 58 ″ N , 9 ° 56 ′ 59 ″ E