Mill cemetery

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Family grave in the mill cemetery

In 1872 inaugurated mill cemetery ( Danish Møllekirkegård ) in Flensburg district Western height is approximately 11 hectare burial ground with 4000 grave sites.

location

The cemetery is located on the 59 m high Mühlenberg not far from the old water tower built in 1902. The area today between 10.5 and 11 hectares is bordered in the north-west by Westerallee (Vestre Allé) and Nerongsallee (Nerongs Allé) in the northeast and east to Friedhofstrasse (Kirkegårdsvej) , to the southwest to Marienallee (Marieallé) and to the southeast to Mühlenstrasse (Møllegade) . The main entrance is by the chapel at the top of Mathildenstrasse (Mathildegade) . There are two side entrances on Marienallee, one of them opposite the commercial college, one entrance is on Mühlenstrasse in the east and another in the north on Nerongsallee / corner of Friedhofstrasse.

etymology

The location of the cemetery on Mühlenstrasse , first mentioned around 1780, is reminiscent of two mills that stood on Wrangelstrasse and the corner of Stuhrsallee until the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries: the Frommsche Mühle (until 1897) and the Simonsche Mühle (until 1902 ).

history

Because the then so-called New Cemetery (now the Old Cemetery ) on Stuhrsallee no longer offered enough space, the city of Flensburg began looking for a new burial place for the growing population in the course of the Wilhelminian era . The decision was made, because access roads were already available, to a five-hectare area on the two gaps 170 and 171 on Marienfeldweg at the gates of Flensburg. Master gardener Peters built a garden in keeping with the history of the garden , which incorporated elements of the Baroque , Renaissance and English landscape gardens . After completion of the facility, Provost Peters inaugurated the new churchyard on November 15, 1872, and almost two months later, on January 10, 1873, the first person to be buried was Höker Nicolai Brogmus, who had died at the age of 38. Twenty years later (1892-1894) the cemetery was reorganized and expanded to the west.

The increase in the population from 25,000 inhabitants in 1873 to 63,000 inhabitants in 1911 required the expansion of the capacities, which the mill cemetery was no longer sufficient, which is why the city of Flensburg decided in 1908 to create a new cemetery on Friedenshügel further west of the city. In 1911 the Friedenshügel cemetery was opened.

The ginkgo gardens created in 2010 in the center of the complex, a new form of tree burial , are part of a modern grave concept, which, according to the Flensburger Tageblatt, the mill cemetery plays a pioneering role among Schleswig-Holstein's cemeteries.

chapel

The cemetery chapel , which turned out to be too small and initially built in the neo-Gothic style , was expanded in 1902 from 45 to 75 m². Additional decorations from this period such as towers and bay windows disappeared after a modernization in 1963, when the chapel was expanded again, so that the building is now furnished for up to 145 mourners.

Monuments

Blücher monument

There are also various memorials in the cemetery, for example the Blücher monument, which commemorates the boiler explosion on the SMS Blücher in November 1907 in Mürwik , in which 16 people died. In Mürwik itself, the street name Blücherstraße , the Alte Blücherbrücke and the Neue Blücherbrücke are a reminder of the accident.

Graves of famous people

  • Gerhard Küntscher

  • Fritz Wempner

  • Willi Bartelsen

  • Renate Delfs

Web links

Commons : Mühlenfriedhof (Flensburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Mill cemetery at the Flensburg cemeteries - an institution under public law

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Mühlenfriedhof: A garden of silence in the middle of the city. Flensburger Friedhöfe - Institution under public law, accessed on June 22, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b Cemeteries - Places of Remembrance: Mill Cemetery. City of Flensburg, accessed on June 22, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Active pensioners, torsdagsholdet (Ed.): Flensborgs gadenavne . Flensburg 1995, p. 23 .
  4. ↑ a b Active pensioners, torsdagsholdet (ed.): Flensborgs gadenavne . Flensburg 1995, p. 18 .
  5. ↑ Active pensioners, torsdagsholdet (Ed.): Flensborgs gadenavne . Flensburg 1995, p. 12 .
  6. ↑ a b Active pensioners, torsdagsholdet (ed.): Flensborgs gadenavne . Flensburg 1995, p. 17 .
  7. ^ Dieter Pust : Flensburger street names (=  series of publications of the Society for Flensburg City History . Volume 61 ). Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , Mühlenstraße, p. 132 .
  8. ↑ a b Dieter Pust: Flensburg street names . Flensburg 2005, Friedhofstrasse, p. 64 .
  9. ^ A b c Gabriele Giessler: Green spaces and gardens in Flensburg . Their function and their change (=  small series of the Society for Flensburg City History . Issue 17). Flensburg 1988, ISBN 3-925856-08-0 , plant of the mill cemetery , p. 54-60 .
  10. ^ W. Borm: New atmosphere of remembrance. In: Flensburger Tageblatt . July 26, 2010, accessed June 22, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Blücherstraße

Coordinates: 54 ° 47 ′ 3.3 "  N , 9 ° 25 ′ 17.2"  E