Cemeteries in Hanover

Fossefeld city cemetery

There are 36 cemeteries in Hanover , Lower Saxony's capital Hanover , which are owned by the municipality as well as owned and managed by the churches , but also owned by foundations such as the Nikolai-Stift . In addition, almost all church cemeteries have been given up or abandoned.

history

General

The deceased city dwellers of Hanover were buried in church cemeteries in the old town until the 17th century . These were cemeteries around the Aegidienkirche , the Kreuzkirche , the Marktkirche , the Neustädter Church , the Heilig-Geist-Kapelle and the Minoritenkloster . In the spatially limited church cemeteries, the graves were used several times due to the dense occupancy. After the old churchyards were closed, the garden cemetery on what is now Marienstraße, laid out in 1741, became the first communal cemetery. The burial of Hanoverian Jews took place in their own cemeteries, such as the Old Jewish Cemetery on Oberstrasse , which was built around 1550 . Special burial sites are the Ehrenfriedhof on the north bank of the Maschsee , the Hannover War Cemetery near Ahlem and the Guelph mausoleum in the Berggarten . In the course of time, older cemeteries were abandoned and turned into green spaces.

Competition grave monuments for row graves from 1911

In 1911 the city of Hanover announced a competition for artists from the province of Hanover under the title funerary monuments for row graves in Hanover . The judges were the Hanoverian mayor and architect Philipp Gades together with Senator Adolf Plathner , city planner Carl Wolff and his colleague, mayor and architect Karl Börgemann , building officer Professor Albrecht Haupt and the architect Johann de Jonge . They decided on various tomb designs, including those of the following artists:

• Group 1, tombs up to 50 marks :
  • 1st Prize for Simple and Plain , Architect Max Gabgan , Hanover;
  • 2nd prize for green and black , interior designer Augustin Jirka , Hanover;
  • 3rd prize for Occident to the painter Ferdinand Osten , Hanover;
• Group 2, for tombs from 50 to 100 marks:
  • 1st prize for children's grave to the sculptor Hans Kröger , Hanover;
  • 2nd prize for Zeus by Georg Schlotter , Hildesheim;
  • 3rd prize for area by the sculptor Heinrich Schlotter , Hanover;
• Group 3, for tombs from 100 marks:
  • 1st prize for Pax from Heinrich Schlotter, Hanover, in collaboration with Heinrich Behrens , Lehrte
  • 2nd Prize for Handwerkskunst 8 , sculptors and architects Bernhard Gaby , Eduard Meyer and Hans Petersen (all in Hanover)
  • 3rd Prize Ludwig Vierthaler

The submitted designs were exhibited in the vestibule of the not yet completed New Town Hall up to and including Sunday, July 23, 1911.

graveyards

Today there are 35 cemeteries in Hanover, 19 of which are sponsored by the city, 12 are church sponsored and one is sponsored by a foundation. There are also three Jewish cemeteries. The 19 cemeteries operated by the city of Hanover in 2017 have a total area of ​​278.2 hectares. There are around 135,000 graves on them. The city cemeteries are divided into the five larger city cemeteries and 14 district cemeteries.

City cemeteries

• Engesohde city cemetery , laid out in 1864, 22 hectares with around 18,000 graves.
• Lahe city cemetery , laid out in 1968, 37 ha with around 25,000 graves. Jewish department, burial ground for Yazidis.
• Ricklingen city cemetery , laid out in 1908, 54 hectares with around 30,000 graves.
• Seelhorst city cemetery , laid out in 1920, 63 hectares with around 35,000 graves, Hanover cemetery museum , Buddhist urn burial department, war victims memorials.
• Stöcken city cemetery , laid out in 1891, 55 hectares with around 17,000 graves. Muslim burial ground.

District cemeteries

• Ahlem district cemetery, laid out in 1913, 5 ha with 1,800 graves.
• Anderten district cemetery, laid out before 1890, 1.7 hectares with 1,400 graves.
• Badenstedt cemetery old , out of service in 1965, 0.3 ha with 60 graves.
• Badenstedt cemetery new , laid out in 1909, 4.7 hectares with 3,700 graves.
• Bothfeld district cemetery , laid out in 1910, 7.6 hectares with 4,500 graves.
• Fossefeld district cemetery , out of service in 1971, 1.3 ha with 840 graves.
• District cemetery Isernhagen NB Süd , laid out in 1960, 1.1 ha with 550 graves.
• Kirchrode district cemetery, laid out in 1876, 5.6 ha with 3,500 graves.
• Lindener Berg district cemetery , laid out in 1862, out of service in 1965, 6.1 hectares with approx. 130 graves.
• Limmer old district cemetery, laid out in 1860, out of service in 1965, 0.3 ha with 55 graves.
• New Limmer district cemetery, laid out in 1905, out of service in 1972, 0.8 ha with 300 graves.
• Misburg district cemetery (forest cemetery), laid out in 1921, 7.9 ha with 4,500 graves.
• Vinnhorst district cemetery, laid out in 1949, 2.3 ha with 1,800 graves.
• Wettbergen district cemetery “Oberes Bergfeld” , laid out in 1914, out of service in 1976, 0.3 ha with 60 graves.

Other operators' cemeteries

• Bemerode cemetery of the Evangelical Lutheran St. Johannis parish in Bemerode, Kronsberg and Wülferode, since 1864, 1.26 ha.
• Old Bothfeld cemetery of the Evangelical Lutheran St. Nicolai Congregation, since 1847, 0.93 ha.
• Hainhölzer cemetery of the Evangelical Lutheran parish Hannover-Hainholz, since 1859, 1.64 ha.
• Herrenhausen cemetery of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Herrenhausen-Leinhausen, since 1860, 1.41 ha.
• Kirchröder cemetery of the Evangelical Lutheran Jakobigemeinde in Kirchrode, since 1864, 0.87 ha, with 960 graves.
• Marienwerder cemetery of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Marienwerder, Stöcken and Havelse, since 1845, 2.03 ha.
• Michaelis cemetery of the Evangelical Lutheran Michaelis community in Ricklingen, since 1856, 2.16 ha.
• Nackenberg district cemetery , formerly the municipal cemetery, has been managed by the Evangelical Lutheran Petri and Nicodemus parish of Kleefeld since 2011. Since 1886, 1.4 ha.
• Wettbergen cemetery of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of John the Baptist , after 1800, 0.24 ha.
• Wülferode cemetery of the Wülferode chapel community of the Evangelical Lutheran St. Johannis parish, since 1877, 0.4 ha.
• Salemsfriedhof of the Henriettenstiftung, since 1893, 1,043 ha.
• Stephansstift cemetery , since 1880, 0.307 ha.

• New St. Nikolai cemetery of the St. Nikolai Stift in Hanover

• Old Jewish cemetery on Oberstrasse , mid-16th century to 1864
• Jewish cemetery An der Strangriede , 1864–1924
• Bothfeld Jewish cemetery , since 1924

Abandoned cemeteries (selection)

Neustadt cemetery

Some abandoned cemeteries in Hanover are used as parks. In addition to their importance for the city's history, as a place for grave monuments of great importance as cultural monuments and as still recognizable examples of cemetery designs in earlier centuries, they serve the urban climate and are a retreat for animals.

• Garden cemetery
• Neustadt cemetery
• Old St. Nikolai cemetery
• Old Wülfeler cemetery
• Döhren cemetery since 1810, 0.46 ha.
• Monastery cemetery Marienwerder the monastery Kwidzyn since the 13th century, ha 0.3.
• Seelberg cemetery since 1831, 1.08 ha.

literature

• Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen (text), Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (eds.): Hannover. Art and Culture Lexicon , new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, Jump: zu Klampen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , passim
• Paul Wolf : Stadthannoversche Friedhofskunst in old and new times , in which (ed.): Hannover. (= Germany's urban development .) Deutscher Architektur- und Industrie-Verlag (DARI), Berlin-Halensee 1922, pp. 118–125
• Arnold Nöldeke (arrangement): Friedhöfe , in ders .: The art monuments of the province of Hanover , ed. from the Provincial Committee and State Directorate of the Province of Hanover, Part 1: Region of Hanover. Issue 2 in two parts. City of Hanover (= issue 19 of the complete works), self-published by the provincial administration, Hanover: Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1932, pp. 249–260
• Ludwig Wülker : The Hanoverian cemeteries in the course of history. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 15 (1938), pp. 76–81
• Gerhard Richter : Origin and development of public green in Hanover up to the incorporation of Linden in 1920 , at the same time dissertation 1969 at the Technical University of Hanover, Hanover, 1969
• Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover (DTBD), part 2, vol. 10.2, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Braunschweig: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH,
  • Part 1, Vol. 10.1, 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , passim
  • Part 2, Vol. 10.2, 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , passim
  • Addendum to Part 2, Volume 10.2: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications of the Institute for Monument Preservation, 1985
• Siegfried Müller : Life in old Hanover. Cultural images of a German city. Schlütersche, Hannover 1986, ISBN 3-87706-033-1 , passim
• Norbert Fischer : Room for the dead. The history of the cemeteries from the grave roads of Roman times to anonymous burials , 1st edition, ed. by the Cemetery and Monument Working Group, Central Institute and Museum for Sepulchral Culture Kassel, Braunschweig: Thalacker-Medien, 2003, ISBN 978-3-87815-174-6 and ISBN 3-87815-174-8 ; contents
• Historisches Museum Hannover : Don't cry, we'll see you again. Mourning culture in Hanover from 1600 to today (= writings of the Historisches Museum Hannover , Vol. 24), Hanover: Historisches Museum Hannover (HMH), 2005, ISBN 978-3-910073-26-5 and ISBN 3-910073-26-3 ; contents
• The cemetery signpost. Information, notes, locations, history, addresses, advertisements (= this and that ), ed. from the state capital Hanover, the periodical appears every three years or after consultation with the city of Hanover, Leipzig: Mammut-Verlag, 2008ff.
• Peter Schulze : Cemeteries. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 193-196.

See also

• Sepulchral culture
• Jewish cemeteries in Hanover

Web links

Commons : Cemeteries in Hannover  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Schulze: Friedhöfe. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 193–196
2. ^ ^{A b c d e f g h i j} German competitions united with architecture competitions , vol. 26, Leipzig: Verlag von Seemann & Company, 1911, p. 308; Preview over google books
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Vol. 31 (1911), p. 364; Preview over google books
4. ^ Cemeteries in Hanover. State capital Hanover, accessed on July 4, 2017 .  
5. ^ The cemeteries of the state capital Hanover. State capital Hanover, accessed on July 4, 2017 .  
6. ^ The cemeteries of the state capital Hanover. (PDF, 56 kB) State capital Hanover, accessed on July 4, 2017 .  
7. ↑ Bemerode cemetery
8. ↑ Old Bothfeld cemetery
9. ↑ Wülferode cemetery
10. ↑ Abandoned cemeteries. Green oases in the city. State capital Hanover, accessed on July 10, 2017 .