Harkort hereditary burial site

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Harkort hereditary cemetery near Gut Schede in autumn

The hereditary burial site Harkort (also referred to as Erbbgr. Schede ) is a listed hereditary burial of the Harkort family resident on Gut Schede in the city of Herdecke in North Rhine-Westphalia. The complex is best known as the grave of the industrial pioneer Friedrich Harkort .

The "Harkort'sche private cemetery" is located in the Ardey Mountains at an altitude of 132 m between two nameless spring strainers at the southwest end of the ridge Auf dem Heil . It lies in belonging to Schede private forest , a vast beech forests , about 350 meters west of the Scheder farmhouse and inside the protected landscape Schede, on the salvation Rostesiepen, Kallenberg, Harkortberg, Harkortsee, Ruhrauen .

Since 1985 the hereditary burial has been registered as monument no. 101 in the Herdecke monument list.

history

The free-standing column in the middle of the plant

The Harkort family has been based at Gut Schede since the middle of the 18th century . The hereditary funeral was laid out by Peter Harkort at the beginning of the 19th century ; the oldest existing tombstone reminds of Klara Sophia Elisabeth Harkort, born in 1814. Bush.

There are different information about the time the system was built. So the hereditary burial place u. a. in materials on the Industrial Culture Route , for example on an information board about the location Haus Schede , described as an “architecturally elaborate hereditary crypt”, which was created “around 1860/70”. This dating possibly refers to the erection of the memorial column. The designation of the entire hereditary burial site as a crypt is also imprecise.

The burial site is still in use today.

Equipment and design

The commemorative plaque for Friedrich and Auguste Harkort embedded in the enclosure wall

Structural parts

The facility has a square floor plan. It is enclosed by a quarry stone , some of which is taller than a man - dry stone wall made of Ruhr sandstone , on the northeast side of which there is a two-winged iron gate, which is framed by sandstone pillars . On the side opposite the entrance, a stone plaque for Friedrich Harkort and his wife Auguste Louise Harkort is set into the enclosure wall.

In the middle of the complex is a freestanding memorial column several meters high , which is crowned by a stylized urn above the capital and abacus . According to the Doric order , the column has no base above the three-tiered, square substructure ( crepe ) .

Green space

The area is planted with overgrown shadow lawns and provided with some rhododendron bushes. Maintenance and pruning measures are carried out if necessary.

Historic grave sites

The stone grave slabs in the complex are of the same shape and kept simple. Only names and essential dates of life are engraved. The more recent grave slabs resemble the older stones in terms of material, dimensions and inscriptions.

Are buried u. a. The following people who died in the 19th century (list by year of death):

  • Gravestone for Klara Sophia Elisabeth Harkort († 1814)

  • Gravestone for Friedrich Harkort († 1880)

tourism

The entrance gate of the facility

The hereditary burial site can be reached as part of a forest walk along the main path from Gut Schede and via footpaths from several directions. The Ruhrhöhenweg , a long-distance hiking trail run by the Sauerland Mountain Association , runs just a few hundred meters past the hereditary burial.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gut Schede. Great art on an ancient settlement island. in: Harald Polenz: Of counts, bishops and cowardly murders. An exciting guide through 22 castles and mansions in the Ruhr Valley. Klartext Verlag, Essen, 2004, ISBN 3-89861-260-0 , pp. 29–31
  2. ↑ See route industrial culture : Haus Schede.
  3. ↑ Cf. City of Herdecke: Noble residences & industrial villas - witnesses to an eventful past. ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.herdecke.de

Web links

Commons : Harkort Hereditary Burial Site  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 43.1 ″  N , 7 ° 22 ′ 40.8 ″  E