Cemetery (Grombach)
The cemetery in Grombach , a district of Bad Rappenau in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg , was laid out in 1785.
history
The original burial place in Grombach was around the old parish church of the village, which was replaced in 1759 by today's church of St. Margaretha . Members of the local nobility and other important people were also buried inside the church, where numerous epitaphs were put up. One of the last people to be buried in the church, which has already been rebuilt, is likely to have been the mayor and church builder Johann Peter Moll (1703–1767), at least bones found in 1981 during renovation work are believed to be his. Of the epitaphs that were once in the church and are documented, only that of pastor Cornelius Junck († 1762) has survived. Most of the early modern epitaphs had already expired by 1800.
To the north-west of the village center, at the site of today's cemetery, there was another burial site, the origins of which are unknown, but of which the remains of a curtain wall were still present in the 18th century. In 1785 the local Protestant church was built not far from this old burial ground , around which the local Protestants began to bury their dead. Meanwhile, in December 1784 , Mayor Franz-Joseph Remlinger had applied for the creation of the new cemetery for Catholics, Protestants and also Mennonites with the Venningen administrative authorities in Eichtersheim and proposed the old burial site northwest of the place, which Carl Philipp von Venningen approved in March 1785. By 1788 Remlinger, who was also a master builder, built a new cemetery wall with stones from the quarries in the Insenbachtal. The first burial in the new cemetery took place in November 1789, a boy only one month old was buried.
In 1963 a war memorial was inaugurated in the cemetery. This was expanded in 1968 to its present area of 9,353 square meters. On the occasion of the expansion, a funeral hall was built , which also served as a replacement church during the renovation of the Catholic Church in 1981.
In April 2007 there were a total of 347 grave sites in the cemetery. With the exception of that of the Catholic priest Albin Schlachter († 1886), none of the old tombs have survived. A grave slab from the 17th century is walled up in the cemetery wall.
literature
- Arnold Scheuerbrandt: The Grombacher Friedhof . In: Stadt Bad Rappenau (ed.): Grunbach uff dem Creichgöw , Bad Rappenau 2010, pp. 357–364.
Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 40.9 ″ N , 8 ° 59 ′ 39.8 ″ E