Öjendorf cemetery

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Typical grave field at the Öjendorf cemetery
Central complex with party halls and crematorium

The Öjendorf cemetery is located in the east of Hamburg in the Billstedt district and, with 99  hectares, is the second largest cemetery in the city after the Ohlsdorf cemetery .

History of origin

The planning for the main cemetery in Öjendorf began in the 1930s after it became clear that the capacity of the cemetery in Ohlsdorf would be exhausted in the foreseeable future.

In 1933, the city of Hamburg purchased an area of ​​317 hectares in Öjendorf, which was then part of Prussia , for 2.2 million Reichsmarks . Today only part of the area is used as a cemetery; the larger part is made up of Öjendorfer Park with Lake Öjendorfer .

The site, which had previously served as a gravel pit, was renatured from the mid-1930s. A tree nursery was built in preparation for the plant . Today's Öjendorfer Park, which is adjacent to the cemetery, was filled in with rubble in the early 1950s and transformed into a nature reserve. The cemetery area was laid out as a park cemetery .

The first burials took place from 1955 in the north of the site in the "Italian Cemetery of Honor". The cemetery was opened on July 14, 1966.

Öjendorf cemetery today

Main entrance to the Öjendorf cemetery via Manshardtstraße in Hamburg.

The Öjendorf cemetery is 98.7 hectares in size. It is characterized by trees and round lawn grave fields, which are separated from each other by the forest. At the eastern border it goes into the natural valley of the Schleemer Bach . It is open to all nations and religions. There are several forms of tombs, e.g. B. lawn graves , anonymous burials , Gräbstätte with common tomb burials under trees and funerals in an urn wall . There is a crematorium in the center of the cemetery . There are around 2,200 funerals every year.

A ring-shaped, approximately five-kilometer-long road system with parking facilities opens up the area. A bus route with several stops within the perimeter leads since the early 1980s through the cemetery: originally line 161 between Station Hamburg Berliner Tor and Steinfurther Allee , currently (2015) line 461 from subway station Horner Racecourse on Manshardt road in the Cemetery and back.

Italian cemetery of honor

Grave field II of the five grave fields in the Italian war cemetery in Hamburg-Öjendorf

5,857 Italian victims of the Nazi tyranny were buried in the Italian war cemetery in Hamburg-Öjendorf . Most of them were reburied here between 1956 and 1958 from the federal states of Bremen, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein from the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge . The graves are arranged in five groups around a high cross. They are set with pillow tombstones on which rank, surname and first name or the note “unknown” or “Lav. Civ. ”(Civilian) are engraved.

Burials according to Islamic rites

Islamic cemetery part

Since 1978 graves for Islamic burials have been laid out at the Öjendorf cemetery . The burial areas are oriented towards Mecca and there are special rooms for ritual ablutions . On November 21, 2008, an extension of the cemetery for Muslim burials was officially opened. This part of the cemetery was designed in close cooperation with the Shura and its layout is reminiscent of a prayer rug . A stone table for laying out as well as several washing areas for washing the feet are available.

Deceased from the old cemeteries

The memorial for the reburied deceased from the old cemeteries of the city of Hamburg is located in cemetery area 318. This is where the bones found during the expansion of the Congress Center Hamburg on the site of the old cemeteries were reburied in summer 2005 . A motto on a boulder recalls the merits of ancestors:

"ERAMUS QUOD ESTIS - ERITIS QUOD SUMUS"

“What you are, we were; what we are, you will. "

- In memory of those who died in the old cemeteries, Öjendorf cemetery, Grabfeld 318

Special burial grounds / memorials

Öjendorf cemetery in Hamburg, Germany in cemetery area 201-11: Serbian Orthodox burial ground
Memorial at the Öjendorf cemetery in Hamburg, Germany in the cemetery area 201-12. Page: In memory of the surviving Vietnamese boat people, those who died in the escape
Hamburg, cemetery area 317 of the Öjendorf cemetery: memorial plaque to the deceased without known relatives
Birch with name boards of the deceased sellers of the Hamburg homeless newspaper Hinz and Kunzt an der Straße in cemetery area 318 of the Öjendorfer Friedhof, Hamburg.

The location of the graves is indicated by the cemetery area grave field grave number. A map shows the streets, cemetery areas and special burial grounds and memorials. Special grave fields / memorials are:

  • System for people who have made their bodies available for medicine (anatomical burial ground) in cemetery area 01
  • Three urn groves for anonymous burials in cemetery area 01; this form of burial was first offered here in Hamburg
  • Star children / fetuses in the cemetery area 04-03
  • Catholics in the cemetery area 05-04.05.06
  • Children's graves in the cemetery area 05-09
  • Grave complex for Serbian Orthodox Christians in cemetery area 201-11
  • Memorial for Vietnamese boat people in the cemetery area 201-12
  • Sintis in the cemetery area 203-08
  • Graves for the deceased without known relatives in the cemetery area 317, 318, 319
  • Birch in memory of the deceased sellers of the homeless newspaper Hinz & Kunzt on the street of the cemetery area 318. The birch is old and tall. Brass tablets with the names of the deceased homeless people are attached to the memorial tree.

Graves of known people

literature

General plan

  • Hamburger Friedhöfe - AöR -: Öjendorf cemetery. Information. The green cemetery in the east of Hamburg introduces itself. Hamburg, 6th edition 2012. (Folded plan of the cemetery, directory of special areas).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Öjendorf cemetery
  2. ↑ Graves at the Öjendorfer Friedhof.
  3. ↑ a b Öjendorf cemetery celebrates its 50th anniversary. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. July 16, 2016, p. 14. Author abbreviation: (haa).
  4. ↑ HVV buries the cemetery bus. In: Hamburger Wochenblatt. January 20, 2015, archived from the original on December 24, 2015 ; accessed on December 23, 2015 .
  5. ↑ War graves in the Öjendorf cemetery at volksbund.de> Germany> Öjendorf
  6. ↑ Simone Meyer: The cemetery gets a new Islamic grave field. In: The world. November 19, 2008. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (ed.): Der Friedhofswegweiser . Mammut, Leipzig August 2008, p. 58 .
  8. ↑ Hamburger Friedhöfe (Ed.): Friedhof Öjendorf. Information. The green cemetery in the east of Hamburg introduces itself. Leaflet 04/2012.
  9. ↑ Further information in the cemetery administration on March 16, 2014.
  10. ↑ Simone Deckner, Christian Hagen: City Expedition, # 2 The Tour of Silence. In: Hinz & Kunzt. No. 12, 2015, p. 14, item 6.

Web links

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Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 10 ″  N , 10 ° 7 ′ 30 ″  E