Cemetery (Deidesheim)
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 Deidesheim cemetery |
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| place | Deidesheim |
| Architectural style | Chapel: baroque |
| Construction year | Chapel: 1619 Walling: 18./19. Century, partly older |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 24 '30.7 " N , 8 ° 10' 56.2" E |
The cemetery of the Palatinate country town of Deidesheim with its cemetery chapel and some culturally and historically significant tombs is designated as a monument zone according to the monument protection law of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate .
location
The cemetery is located on the north-western outskirts of Deidesheim. The Jewish cemetery is directly to the east . To the west of the cemetery runs the Leinhöhlweg, on the other side of which is the Deidesheimer Leinhöhle vineyard .
history
In the past, the Deidesheim cemetery was laid out around the parish church in the center of the village, as evidenced by the cemetery cross , the ossuary and the Ölberg chapel at the parish church with a Pietà .
Due to the increasing population growth of Deidesheim, the new cemetery was created outside the Deidesheim city wall in the "Benn". It was first mentioned in 1593. The new cemetery was initially not very much appreciated by the population; initially only poor people and strangers were buried here. It was not until the middle of the 18th century, when no more graves were laid in the old cemetery, that all Christian dead found their final resting place here. Instead of a crucifix that used to stand here, the cemetery chapel was built in 1619; the date can be read next to the keystone of the entrance portal. The chapel is dedicated to Joseph of Arimathea , the patron saint of the dying. The chapel was renovated from 1956 to 1958, and the little tower with a bell was placed on top of it. A priest's grave was laid out on the west side of the cemetery chapel in 1956, and a grave for religious sisters was created a little east of the chapel in 1958. In 1965 a transverse building was added to the chapel and it was converted into a morgue .
The area of the cemetery was expanded in 1849 and again to the west a few years ago.
investment
The walling of the old part of the cemetery comes from the 18th and 19th centuries. Century, partly even older.
The cemetery chapel is a simple hall building with an unadorned flat ceiling. The round windows on the side are from the last renovation. The building has a gable roof , which is crowned with a baroque onion dome over the entrance area . The arched entrance is marked with the year 1619. The Deidesheim coat of arms is depicted on the keystone of the portal, which at that time - in contrast to today's city coat of arms - only had a six-pointed star located in the upper right corner of the coat of arms. There are also two monograms on the sandstone frame of the portal: On the one hand, "WF", with a cross, and "SW", with a pretzel. The latter could be a reference to a foundation of the Deidesheim bakers guild.
The grave monuments and stones in the cemetery date from a period spanning several centuries, and the styles in which they are made are correspondingly diverse.
One of the oldest gravestones in the cemetery is that of Wilhelm Michael Schmit († 1784), he was an assessor at the Episcopal Vicariate of Speyer . His tombstone, in the late Baroque style , is made of yellow sandstone and bears a skull with two crossed bones underneath. The most elaborate tomb of the cemetery is that of the Jordan / Bassermann-Jordan family, a neo-renaissance complex, the back wall of which bears a curved top with a Baroque gable , in the middle of which an urn is attached. At the front of the wall are five stelae created as tombs or double tombs in the style of the Early and High Renaissance , in which medallions with portrait reliefs of the deceased made of white marble are set.
Graves of famous people
Some famous people were buried here, and their tombs have survived, including:
- Andreas Jordan (1775–1848), winemaker and politician
- Anna von Szent-Ivanyi (1797–1889), winery owner and benefactress
- Carl Heinrich Schultz (1805–1867), doctor and botanist
- Franz Peter Buhl (1809–1862), winemaker and politician
- Ludwig Andreas Jordan (1811–1883), winemaker and politician
- Emil Bassermann-Jordan (1835–1915), banker and winemaker
- Franz Armand Buhl (1837–1896), winemaker and politician
- Eugen Buhl (1841–1910), winemaker and politician
- Heinrich Buhl (1848–1907), politician and legal scholar
- Johann Julius Siben (1851–1907), winemaker and politician
- Josef Giessen (1858–1944), politician
- Josef Siben (1864–1941), winemaker and politician
- Franz Eberhard Buhl (1867–1921), winemaker and politician
- Ludwig Bassermann-Jordan (1869–1914), winemaker
- Friedrich von Bassermann-Jordan (1872–1959), winemaker and viticulture historian
- Carl Anton Piper (1874–1938), politician and writer
- Arnold Siben (1882–1957), winemaker and politician
- Heinrich Hartz (1886–1965), Catholic priest
- Hanns Haberer (1890–1967), politician
- Theo Becker (1927-2006), oenologist
- Stefan Gillich (1932–2019), local politician
- Achim Niederberger (1957–2013), entrepreneur
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Bad Dürkheim district. Mainz 2020, p. 22 (PDF; 5.1 MB; see: Platanenweg Friedhof (monument zone) ).
- ↑ Berthold Schnabel : Deidesheim . Ed .: City of Deidesheim. Geiger-Verlag, Horb 2015, ISBN 978-3-86595-588-3 , pp. 7 .
- ^ A b c Georg Peter Karn, Rolf Mertzenich: Bad Dürkheim district. City of Bad Dürkheim, municipality of Haßloch, municipalities of Deidesheim, Lambrecht, Wachenheim (= cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 13.1 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1995, ISBN 3-88462-119-X , p. 184 .
- ^ A b Berthold Schnabel: Art historical guide through the Deidesheim association . Deidesheim 1976, p. 24 .
- ^ Catholic parish office Deidesheim (Ed.): 500 years parish church Deidesheim . Deidesheim 1964, p. 39 .