Cemetery (Bad Kissingen-Hausen)

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Twelfth Station of the Cross at the Hausener Friedhof
Memorial from 1965 for the victims of the two world wars in Hausen

The cemetery in Hausen , a district of the spa town of Bad Kissingen in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen , was created in 1813.

The Way of the Cross running along the hedge of the cemetery and the cemetery cross belonged to the Bad Kissingen architectural monuments and are registered in the Bavarian Monument List under number D-6-72-114-179 .

history

Until the first cemetery was set up in Hausen in 1813 on the occasion of a typhus epidemic documented in the Leichhof book, the deceased were buried in the Bad Kissingen chapel cemetery.

In 1837 Kaspar and Barbara Metz donated a way of the cross for the cemetery , the course of which began in the interior of Hausen (in “The Row”) and ended with the last three stops in the cemetery. The Way of the Cross shows as the 15th station the finding of the cross by Empress Helena . At this time the second station ("Jesus takes the cross on his shoulders.") Of the Way of the Cross was in front of the birthplace of the later Cardinal Julius Döpfner, who was born in Hausen . This station of the cross inspired Döpfner during his episcopal ordination in 1948 to choose his motto “Praedicamus crucifixum” (“We proclaim [Christ] the crucified”, ( 1 Cor 1.23  EU )). In 1972 the Way of the Cross was restored; On this occasion, all stations within the cemetery area were set up on the hedge surrounding the cemetery.

In 1853, 1889 and 1985 the cemetery was expanded; during the expansion in 1853, the cemetery crucifix may also have been built.

According to a decision of the former warriors and comrades-in-arms association on December 29, 1921, the sculptor Bruno (I) Brand was commissioned with the execution of a war memorial on the Hausener cemetery. Neither the result of a house collection carried out for financing nor the amount of the costs for the monument nor the date of the inauguration can be proven; corresponding documents are missing. An order from the municipality to the plumber Alfons Reder for the fencing of the monument has been handed down for October 21, 1926. The memorial is mentioned in a commemorative publication for the Gauturn Festival in 1956; In addition, an invoice from the stonemasonry Bruno Brand from November 29, 1965 proves the existence of the monument at that time. As communal worker Bruno Weingärtner announced, the memorial still existed around 1968. It may have been removed by the Burger company, which bricked up the cemetery well at that time.

From 1958 to 1959, the cemetery morgue was built. When a new bell became necessary in 1963, the local council decided not to buy a new one, but to have master blacksmith Josef Beck hang the bell of the town hall of Hausen built in 1890 by the planner C. von Morandell in the morgue. The origin of the bell before 1890 is unknown, but according to a theory (currently unconfirmed) by the district administrator Werner Eberth , the bell originally came from the Schönborn tower belonging to the Lower Saline ; After the construction of the Upper Saline and the demolition of the Schönborn Tower , the bell would have been used in the saline buildings until it was purchased by the local council after its demolition in 1868.

On the day of popular mourning in 1965, the inauguration of a memorial stone for the victims of both world wars, created by the Kirchheim sculptor Willi Väth and located next to the morgue, took place in the Hausener cemetery . On three boards on the wall of the morgue are the names of the Hausen residents who lost their lives in the two world wars. The total costs amounted to DM 13,000, with DM 2,990 for the panel and DM 8,650 for the memorial. The memorial stone is expressly not intended as a “hero” but as a peace memorial.

literature

  • Elisabeth Keller: Die Flurdenkmale im Landkreis Bad Kissingen , Volume 1, self-published by the Landkreis Bad Kissingen, 1978, p. 227f.
  • Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 , p. 126 .
  • Werner Eberth : Contributions to the history of Hausen and Kleinbrach , Volume 1. Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 2009, pp. 194–234

Web links

Commons : Cemetery  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Werner Eberth: Contributions to the history of Hausen and Kleinbrach , Volume 1. Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 2009, p. 219
  2. ↑ Werner Eberth: Julius Cardinal Döpfner on the 100th birthday - "Des ist unnr Cardinal (4th volume of the articles on the history of Hausen and Kleinbrach ), Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 2013, pp. 199-200
  3. ^ Werner Eberth: Contributions to the history of Hausen and Kleinbrach , Volume 1. Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 2009, p. 224
  4. ^ Werner Eberth: Contributions to the history of Hausen and Kleinbrach , Volume 3. Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 2011, pp. 197-199
  5. ^ Werner Eberth: Contributions to the history of Hausen and Kleinbrach , Volume 1. Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 2009, p. 226
  6. ^ Werner Eberth: Contributions to the history of Hausen and Kleinbrach , Volume 3. Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 2011, p. 320
  7. ^ Werner Eberth: Contributions to the history of Hausen and Kleinbrach , Volume 3. Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 2011, p. 226f.

Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 56.9 ″  N , 10 ° 4 ′ 45 ″  E