Cemetery at the palace pond

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The Am Palastweiher cemetery (also known as the old cemetery ) is one of three cemeteries in the old town of Königswinter in the Rhein-Sieg district of North Rhine-Westphalia . It dates from 1808 and is back as a monument under monument protection .

location

The cemetery is located on the edge of the old town immediately east of the railway line on the right bank of the Rhine between the eponymous street Am Palastweiher in the west and Winzerstrasse in the east. The city's Wilhelm-Auguste-Viktoria-Haus borders to the south, and industrial areas to the northwest.

history

The cemetery was laid out in 1808 due to an ordinance issued under French occupation and replaced the cemetery at the parish church , from which some grave crosses were moved here. The first burial took place on May 23, 1808. In 1835 and 1853 the cemetery was expanded.

The cemetery was entered in the monuments list of the city of Königswinter on August 1, 1988. Since the construction of the new Oberweingartenweg cemetery at the entrance to the Nachtigallental in 1965, the Am Palastweiher cemetery has also been called the “Old Cemetery”. Since the closure of the Oberweingartenweg cemetery at the beginning of 2011, it has again been the only cemetery in Königswinter's old town open to new occupations.

description

The oldest preserved tombs include some of the neo-Gothic forms that are considered to be of high quality from the second half of the 19th century. The best known include the grave of the last monk of the Heisterbach Abbey Aloys Olzem (1771-1859) and the family graves of the industrial families Mülhens , Lemmerz and the Leonhart-Kurtzrock family, the graves of Stephan Freiherr von Sarter (1833-1902), Builder of Drachenburg Castle and a later owner of this property, Paul Spinat (1904–1989). The cemetery chapel is a neo-Romanesque plastered building from the early 20th century portal in stone ; the cemetery cross is made of trachyte and includes a mighty, stepped base and a high cross with a stone body.

On the northern edge of the cemetery, in a facility surrounded by hedge, is a military and honorary cemetery with graves of fallen soldiers from the First and Second World War, as well as a war memorial donated by the city of Königswinter to the Königswinter architect and sculptor Franz Josef Krings .

  • Crypt chapel of the Leonhart-Kurtzrock family
    The funerary chapel built at the end of the 19th century is the family crypt of the Leonhart-Kurtzrock family (also Kurtzrock-Wellingsbüttel), who lived in the Villa Leonhart they built and in 1935 with the death of Freiin Sophie von Leonhart -Kurtzrock (born September 22, 1852 - † August 22, 1935) expired. When opened to the outside, it is designed in neo-Gothic forms and has wooden heraldic panels on the inside.
  • Grave site of the Lemmerz family
    The     grave site, which was probably built in 1925, is an open, flat-roofed , temple-like marble hall in neoclassical shapes. Originally there were two bronze braziers on the roof . The Lemmerz family in Königswinter is particularly known for the car wheel factory of the same name , which Johann Lemmerz founded with his brothers in 1919 and was continued by his son Paul Lemmerz .
  • War memorial in the Ehrenfriedhof
    The war memorial designed by Franz Josef Krings is made of sandstone and has an altar-like cafeteria with a dead warrior, behind which there is a display wall with bronze plaques on which the names of the fallen are inscribed. Inaugurated on All Saints' Day (November 1st) in 1929, the war memorial was added as a result of the Second World War.

  • Cemetery chapel

  • War memorial

  • Gravesite of the Lemmerz family

  • Crypt chapel of the von Leonhart-Kurtzrock family

  • Grave of Aloys Olzem

  • Grave of Stephan Freiherr von Sarter

  • Grave Paul Spinach

literature

Web links

Commons : Friedhof Am Palastweiher  - Collection of images
  • Günter Hank, Sybille von der Hagen: Story (s) from the Gottesacker. The old cemetery at the Palastweiher in Königswinter , Quartet-Verlag, Rheinbreitbach 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of monuments of the city of Königswinter , number A 76
  2. ↑ A witness to the history of the place , Kölnische Rundschau / Bonner Rundschau, November 4, 2011
  3. ↑ Norbert Schloßmacher ; Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz (Ed.): Rheinische Kunststätten . Catholic churches in the valley area of ​​the city of Königswinter , issue 411, 1st edition, Neusser Druckerei und Verlag, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-88094-787-2 , p. 10.
  4. ^ "No centralization of the cemeteries" , Kölnische Rundschau , September 9, 2010
  5. ^ The tomb of the last monk of Heisterbach , Virtual Bridge Courtyard Museum
  6. ^ Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 , p. 114 (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007).
  7. ^ Hermann Ilgen : German grove of honor for the heroes of 1914/18 . Dehain-Verlag, Leipzig 1931.

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 36.3 "  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 47"  E