Buschey Cemetery

Memorial column on a roundabout of the Buschey Cemetery with the names of eleven soldiers who were wounded in the Franco-German War and who died in Hagen and who are buried here

The Buschey cemetery is a cemetery in Hagen - Wehringhausen , which was created in 1810 as a community cemetery for the Catholic, Lutheran and Reformed communities of Hagen-Mitte outside the city limits at that time. The cemetery is protected as a monument because of its well-preserved grave complex.

History and monuments

The Prussian government had ordered cemeteries to be laid out only outside of inhabited areas. The mayor of Hagen, Carl Ludwig Christian Dahlenkamp, implemented these instructions under the Napoleonic occupation. For the ecumenical cemetery to be created, the city selected a site in the Wehringhauser area, at that time outside the city. The Buschey Cemetery was inaugurated at Easter 1810.

The cemetery originally had a size of 8,750 m². Today the cemetery covers 24,738 m²; it is located in the Karree Lange Straße, Bergischer Ring, Buscheystraße and Christian-Rohlfs-Straße. The Buschey Cemetery, with its surrounding wall and the sometimes very beautiful gravestones and grave systems from Classicism to Art Nouveau and Expressionism, is one of the art and cultural-historical important cemeteries in the Ruhr area. The sculptures in the cemetery include three by the Belgian sculptor George Minne . JLM Lauweriks designed the grave for August Kuth, an employee of Karl Ernst Osthaus .

In 2003 a prayer hall was built based on a design by the architect Simone Steinborn. 2010 marked the bicentenary of the cemetery. The cemetery is still operated jointly by the Protestant town church community, the Catholic St. Mary's community and the Protestant Reformed church community in Hagens. These three parishes and their cemetery commission maintain the Remberg cemetery in addition to the Buschey cemetery. The support association for the historical cemetery at Buschey, Hagen endeavors to preserve important grave monuments.

Since the beginning of 2013, the cemetery has also been part of the route of industrial culture in the themed route industrial culture at Volme and Ennepe .

Graves of famous people in the Buschey cemetery

Wilhelm Altenloh , perpetrator of the Holocaust († 1985)
Liselotte Funcke , politician († 2012)
Karl Ernst Osthaus , art patron († 1921)

Tomb of the Elbers family

Family graves of the entrepreneurial families

Elbers ( textile factory Elbers )
Harkort ( Mechanical workshops Harkort & Co. )
Funcke (screw factory Funcke & Hueck )
Osthaus (Bankhaus Osthaus, later part of the Essener Credit-Anstalt )
Post ( Johann Caspar Post Sons )

literature

Elisabeth May: The Buschey Cemetery - Against forgetting: A cultural-historical consideration . Ardenku-Verlag, Hagen 2010, ISBN 978-3-932070-91-4 .

Web links

Commons : Buschey Cemetery - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Buschey cemetery site at a local florist

Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~9~109052

Individual evidence

↑ List of monuments of the city of Hagen as of December 31, 2011, No. 252.
↑ Reinhard Kolwe: Buschey cemetery is 200 years old . In: Westfalenpost from April 8, 2010.
^ Local court of Hagen , register of associations no .: 2199

51.356388888889 7.4630555555556Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 23 " N , 7 ° 27 ′ 47" E

[1] List of monuments of the city of Hagen as of December 31, 2011, No. 252.

[2] Reinhard Kolwe: Buschey cemetery is 200 years old . In: Westfalenpost from April 8, 2010.

[3] Local court of Hagen , register of associations no .: 2199