Rheinhold family grave

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Hereditary funeral of the Rheinhold family with exedra by Hermann Schaedtler and mourners by Richard Engelmann

The Rheinhold family grave in the Stöcken city cemetery in Hanover is considered to be one of the most beautiful grave monuments of the 20th century in the Lower Saxony state capital.

history

Gravestone for 6 family members, including Elise Rheinhold, who was murdered in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in August 1942

The tomb for the Rheinhold family, including the merchant Otto Rheinhold , was created after the death of their son Paul Otto Rheinhold, who died in World War I in 1914 . The family commissioned the Hanoverian architect Hermann Schaedtler to build a pillar made of shell limestone that was both elegant and simple . The tomb, which was designed from the outset as a family grave and as an hereditary burial , was erected in 1915. The exedra is one of Schaedtler's most outstanding architectural creations in Sepulchral Culture .

In 1916, the sculptor Richard Engelmann delivered a grave statue of a mourning woman carved in marble, which stands partly as a symbol , partly for a living being. While the head of the seated person, with his mouth closed, looks at the ground with a slightly lowered expression and a mild facial expression, the left leg can be guessed from the body under a simple robe that goes down to the floor in large pleated tubes. In spite of its size of 2 meters, the picture is "traced back to a concise form of noble life."

Grave slab for Gert Rheinhold (1924–2011)

On the mortuary tablet at the foot of the sculpture, the mentioned members of the family with three other names and dates of life and death are listed, including a brother of Paul Otto Rheinhold who died as a child and his father who died in 1937. The mother of the two brothers also listed died as an old woman. However, she could not be buried in sticks because she died as a member of a family with Jewish roots on an unknown day in August 1942 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp .

See also

Web links

Commons : Inheritance burial family Otto Rheinhold  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Gert von der Osten (text), Hildegard Müller (photos): Richard Engelmann, Mourners, Marble, 2m, Stöcken cemetery , in this: sculptures from three centuries in Hanover . Edited by the Kunstverein Hannover on its 125th anniversary, Hannover: Kunstverein, 1957, pp. 110–111
  2. ↑ a b c Helmut Knocke : Schaedtler, Hermann , in Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Stadtlexikon Hannover . From the beginning to the present , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 536; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ a b Merret Vogt: Gravestones as memorials and memorials , in: Don't weep, we'll see each other again. Mourning culture in Hanover from 1600 to today (= writings of the Historisches Museum Hannover , Volume 24), publisher: HMH, Historisches Museum Hannover, Hannover: HMH, 2005, ISBN 978-3-910073-26-5 and ISBN 3-910073- 26-3 , pp. 78-87; here: p. 79

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 18.3 "  N , 9 ° 39 ′ 53.4"  E