Buntentorsfriedhof

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Buntentorsfriedhof
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The Buntentorsfriedhof is located in Bremen , Neustadt district, Buntentor district, Buntentorsteinweg 65 or Kornstraße and Möckernstraße. It was created in 1822. It has been a listed building in Bremen since 2016 .

history

The urban development of the Bremen Neustadt on the left bank of the Weser began after the expansion of the Bremen city fortifications in the 17th century with the Alte Neustadt . In the 18th century the district expanded towards the south-east. There was no cemetery. The citizens of the Neustadt founded the Neustadt burial establishment to eliminate the lack of burial facilities.

In 1822 the institution laid out the Buntentorsfriedhof. At that time it was still outside the new settlement of the new town. It is the oldest non-church cemetery in Bremen. Its inner development followed a rectangular grid with three longitudinal paths. The cemetery was initially organized as a cooperative and was very rare in Germany. Until 1938 it was expanded several times, especially to the south to the Kornstrasse, which was laid out in 1873. The lawn cemetery is now 3.2 hectares and has many very old trees. The boundary wall also serves as an urn wall.

In 1939/41 the cemetery was expropriated by the city of Bremen without compensation. During the Second World War , bombs destroyed all buildings, including the chapel built in 1871, some grave monuments and the boundary wall to Buntentorsteinweg. From 1949 to 1952 various renovations were carried out and in 1950 a neoclassical chapel was built at the entrance to Buntentorsteinweg. Due to the soil conditions, only urn burials are possible at the Buntentor cemetery. A memorial stone was erected for the victims of the gas explosion on Geschworenweg in 2000.

Graves of known people

Johann Georg Poppe
  • City architect Johann Georg Poppe (1769–1826)
  • Johanna Lucie Henriette Flechtmann (1850–1921), Bremen original and market trader; known as Fish Luzie .
  • Carl Stockhinger (1894–1951), MP (SPD)
  • Senator (SPD) Alfred Balcke (1894–1972)
  • Anneliese Leinemann (1923–2013), Member of Parliament (SPD)

literature

  • Marlies Böner-Zollenkopf and Detlev Bartsch: Dig where you stand! - Stories about the Buntentorfriedhof in Bremen. Bremen 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Monument database of the LfD

Web links

Coordinates: 53 ° 3 ′ 55 ″  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 11 ″  E