Adelby Cemetery

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Adelby cemetery site in spring 2014

The Adelby Cemetery (often also referred to as Adelby Cemetery ) is the smallest of the three cemeteries in the city of Flensburg , where burials still take place today. Only the old cemetery, which belongs to the municipal museum complex, is smaller . The Adelby Cemetery belongs to the Adelby parish and is the most rural of the three cemeteries and also the only cemetery on the east side of Flensburg.

history

The Adelby cemetery evidently originated from the churchyard of the Johanniskirche, which is located on the western edge of the cemetery. The cemetery was incorporated into the Adelby area together with Tarup in 1974.

Buildings

The neighboring St. Johanniskirche is protected as a cultural monument. In addition, other parts of the cemetery were entered in the monument book, including the small Nordertor (not to be confused with the Nordertor in downtown Flensburg ), the Ostertor and the Westerpforte .

  • The Westerpforte is one of the entrances to the cemetery

  • The Westerpforte from the back with the Johanniskirche in the background

  • The small north gate in front of the church

  • The Easter Gate

Gravesites

The cemetery includes a large number of grave sites on an 8 hectare site. On it, among other things, some graves of urban historical importance can be found. The tombstones up to 1870 were entered in their entirety in the monument book.

For example, a grave of significant city history is that of the Rings family. Nikolaus rings was the last miller of the royal watermill on Angelburger Strasse . He died without offspring because his children died prematurely. The grave of Lieutenant Asmus Jepsen , who was executed on May 6, 1945 as a deserter on the Twedter Feld firing range (see special area Mürwik ), is also located in Adelby cemetery . The naval officers Hans-Georg von Friedeburg , Wolfgang Lüth and Rudolf Petersen are also buried in the cemetery.

Monuments

Memorial to those who died in the First World War from Adelby, Adelbylund , Sünderup , Tastrup at the Adelby cemetery

Near the Westerpforte is the memorial to those killed in World War I from Adelby, Adelbylund , Sünderup and Tastrup . On the left side of the memorial there is a memorial stone with the inscription: "Heimat Ach Heimat" and a coat of arms with an ear of wheat. On the right side of the memorial there is another memorial stone with the wording: "Fallen in the war, killed by bombs, sacrificed in the resistance, missing, desperate, kidnapped, demanding - never again."

various

The later teacher and local researcher Ocke Christian Nerong worked from 1872 to 1875 as a taxidermist (corpse servant) in Adelby.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adelby cemetery, Flensburg ; Retrieved on: April 6, 2014
  2. ^ Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg !. Flensburg 2009, article: Adelby Church
  3. ↑ Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Am Mühlenteich

Web links

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Coordinates: 54 ° 47 ′ 2 "  N , 9 ° 27 ′ 58"  E