Old Wülfeler Friedhof (Seelhorst City Cemetery)

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The Old Wülfeler cemetery in Hannover , now included in the listed gardens of the city cemetery Seelhorst , is a historic cemetery of 1907 eingemeindeten former village Wülfel . The approximately 1.15 hectare former burial site with some interesting and also listed tombs is located south of the former main entrance of the Seelhorst cemetery on the outer wall of the Hoher Weg street in the Seelhorst district .

history

The Old Wülfeler Friedhof is the successor to the "Old Wülfeler Friedhof" at Hildesheimer Straße 367 in Wülfel, which was laid out in the Middle Ages - with the same name . In 1892, the cemetery operations were relocated to what was then Mittelfeld .

Similar to the Alte Döhrener Friedhof , the facility in today's Seelhorst district was, however, included in the planning of the Seelhorst town cemetery, which was started in 1919 by the town gardening director Hermann Kube .

Tombs (selection)

The listed grave sites in the Seelhorster department include the following grave sites, some of them from the 19th century, under the numbers

  • Dept. Wü 6, No. 6: Gravestone of the family of the innkeeper Wilhelm Bahle from 1923; cut sandstone with column-like edging;
  • Dept. Wü 4, No. 109: Tomb of the Ernst Carnehl family from 1903; Gravestone on a small base with a triangular top. A black plaque set in gray granite contains the inscriptions ;
  • Dept. Wü 4, nos. 101, 102, 106 and 107: grave vaults with an earth cover, surrounded by an ornamental grille , for the family of the manor owner Armand Fontaine from 1892;
  • Dept. Wü 2A, No. 92: Tomb of the family of the painter Heinrich Kirchhoff from 1918: a bronze figure by the sculptor Hans Dammann rests on a cuboid made of shell limestone ;
  • Dept. Wü 2, No. 78 A: Tomb from 1908 for the Friedhoff family (with the farmer Willi Friedhoff and Sophie Friedhoff and the teacher August Friedhoff ) as a sandstone block with a cross over a helmet and a coat

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Cordula Wächtler, Runhild Porthun (ed.), Beate Räckers (text): Stadtfriedhof Seelhorst , brochure with 32 pages, a conceptual “walk” along with an annotated and numbered overview folding card, ed. from the state capital Hanover, The Lord Mayor , Green Space Office in cooperation with the Press and Information Office, Hanover: LHH, 2000, pp. 2ff., 22f. 33 and others; downloadable as a PDF document
  2. ^ A b Wolfgang Neß : The city cemetery. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 2, vol. 10.2 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 110f., And site map 7 Seelhorst Mittelfeld Limmer , p. 48f .; as well as Seelhorst in the addendum directory of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover , p. 20f.
  3. ^ Klaus Mlynek : incorporations. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 153.
  4. ↑ Peter Schulze : Friedhöfe. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 193–196; here: p. 195f.
  5. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Wülfel. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 685f.

Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 10.5 ″  N , 9 ° 47 ′ 0.6 ″  E