Old town cemetery (Mülheim an der Ruhr)
The old town cemetery, also known as the “old cemetery”, is a cemetery established in 1812 in Mülheim an der Ruhr . Today it is a park-like green area in Mülheim's Altstadt I district . The entire cemetery area is now a listed building. The old town cemetery with its tombs of simple citizens, municipal and ecclesiastical superiors and entrepreneurial families is an important testimony to the history of Mülheim and a document of historical burial culture.
history
The old town cemetery was consecrated on November 12, 1812. Initially, the cemetery only comprised a narrow strip of land on both sides of the Friedhofweg, but was gradually expanded between 1835 and 1878 through acquisitions of garden land. The old town cemetery was administered by the two evangelical parishes until 1835, after which the mayors' signatures on the inheritance certificates document the transfer of administration to the city. In 1889 the gatehouse was built on Kettwiger Straße with a cemetery keeper's apartment and a mourning room. At the turn of the century, the Friedhofweg was expanded as a connecting road between Schulstraße and Oberstraße and the cemetery along the road was surrounded by walls. In the course of these measures, the northern part was closed for burial in row graves . Until 1909, hereditary burials were still allowed to take place in unoccupied graves . In 1907 the mourning hall was built and the cemetery reached its final size. With the opening of the main cemetery on April 15, 1916, the southern part of the old cemetery was closed for burials in row graves. Burials in election graves were possible until they were completely closed in 1967. Hereditary funerals were still held in 1981 and 1991 with special permission.
The old town cemetery today
The enclosure of the northern part was removed as early as after the Second World War . Today it is designed as an open green area and only a few grave monuments remind of its earlier use. Since 1968, the northern boundary has been the memorial designed by Gerhard Marcks for the fallen of both world wars.
On September 20, 1984 the old town cemetery was placed under monument protection. Since 1988 urn burials have been possible again in the southern part. In particular, sponsorships for graves are possible in order to preserve the cemetery and its historical structure. The godfather undertakes to horticultural care of the grave as well as to the preservation and, if necessary, to the restoration of the listed structures and thereby acquires the right to place up to four urns on the grave site.
Important tombs
In the northern part
- Mathias Stinnes
- Johann Caspar Troost
- Memorial for the fallen two world wars by Gerhard Marcks
In the southern part
- Coupienne family
- Ibing crypt / Zeppenfeld crypt / Grillo , Bungert, Siepmann crypt
- Jaenigen family
- Klusmann family
- Family Krabb
- Family Küchen (parents of Gerhard Küchen )
- Leonhard family (parents of Johann Hermann Leonhard )
- Ludwig Lindgens family
- Mellinghoff family
- Mitsdörffer family
- Family Mueller
- Mayor Obertüschen
- Perez / Stinnes / Zerwes family
- The married couple W. Schmitz-Scholl
- Schmitz / Mönkemann family
- Family Hermann Hugo Stinnes and Hugo Stinnes
- Josef Thyssen family
- Mayor Von Bock and Polach
- Married couple Erich von Wedelstädt
- Vorster family
- Von Eicken family
- Mayor Christian Weuste
- Graves of the victims of war and tyranny - mostly Russian forced laborers who fell victim to the tyranny of the NSDAP 1933–1945
Sources and references
- ↑ Monument list no . 76th Monument Authority of the City of Mülheim an der Ruhr, accessed on November 5, 2011 .
- ↑ Working group of local history associations in Mülheim (ed.): Historically significant personalities of the city of Mülheim ad Ruhr, Mülheim 1984
literature
- Melanie Rimpel: The old cemetery / old town cemetery. In: Geschichtsverein Mülheim an der Ruhr eV (Hrsg.): Witnesses of the city's history. Architectural monuments and historical places in Mülheim an der Ruhr. Klartext Verlag , Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-784-0 .
- Hans Weber: Burial sites in Mülheim in the past and present. In: 900 years of Mülheim an der Ruhr: 1093–1993 ( Journal of the History Association , issue 66), Mülheim an der Ruhr 1993, pp. 521–546.
- Bärbel Essers: The Old Town Cemetery: A walk through the history of Mülheim . Sutton, Erfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3954004683
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Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '23.3 " N , 6 ° 53' 15.6" E