Coseler cemetery
The Coseler Friedhof (also Friedhof Coseler Straße , Simultanfriedhof , later occasionally Alter Coseler Friedhof ) is a former municipal burial ground in the Upper Silesian town of Gliwice (Gleiwitz) . The Coseler Friedhof is located northwest of the city center on Ulica Kozielska. Today the area is used as a park (Alter Coseler Park, Park of Polish-French Friendship) and has a size of 5.9 hectares.
The park today houses the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary , a memorial for the French soldiers who fell during the referendum from the 1920s in the form of a sarcophagus, a lapidary and a memorial for the Gliwice victims murdered in January 1945, erected in 2005.
history
The Coseler Friedhof was laid out in the middle of the 19th century.
In the 1920s, the new central cemetery was built on what was then Coseler Chaussee , which was to replace the old Coseler cemetery. After 1945 many graves and monuments were destroyed. In 1950 the Coseler Friedhof was closed. In the 1980s, the cemetery area was declared a park. In the 1990s the cemetery church was dismantled from the central cemetery, preserved and later rebuilt in the former Coseler cemetery.
The park's trees include maples, birches, beeches, yew trees, oaks, ash trees, ginkgos, hornbeams, chestnuts, linden trees, poplars, robinia, firs, thuja, ancient redwoods and cypresses.
Buried
- Carl August Wilhelm Hegenscheidt (1823–1891), German entrepreneur in the metal processing industry
- Joseph Seiffert († 1877), teacher and master songwriter of the Gliwice Liedertafel
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ City of Gliwice: Zielona strona Gliwic
Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 58 " N , 18 ° 38 ′ 58.3" E