Seelberg cemetery

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The Seelberg Cemetery or Friedhof Am Seelberg in Hanover is a former cemetery that was laid out in the 19th century and is now a green area with an area of ​​around 1.08 hectares under monument protection. The location is the street Am Seelberg in what is now the Misburg-Nord district .

history

After the village of Misburg, which was created in the Middle Ages in connection with the former Mudzborgh and the later settlement center around Meyers Garten , was politically assigned to the Office of Hanover at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover from 1824 , "[...] 1827 became relatively far cemetery laid out outside the village ”.

When in the course of industrialization during the early days of the German Empire and particularly through the establishment of Misburger cement industry in 1877, the population of the village rapidly grew, Misburg received its own parish and no longer belonged from 1893 to the parish Kirchrode , although the St. Johannis Church until 1904 inaugurated could be.

Located on the historic street "Am Seelberg" which previously officially after 1895 Flurnamen was named to remember on the former cemetery a few - also listed - grave stones of deceased residents Misburgs and to the former use of the site, which at the time of the Weimar Republic in Year 1921 when it was abandoned. In the same year the Misburg forest cemetery was opened.

The Seelberger Friedhof was finally abandoned in 1972. Some graves were reburied , others were preserved on the spot.

See also

Remarks

  1. ↑ In contrast to this, the year 1831 is given as the date on which the cemetery was laid out, compare Peter Schulze: Friedhöfe. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 195
  2. ↑ Deviating from this, the year 1920 is given as the date of abandonment, compare Peter Schulze: Friedhöfe. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 195

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Peter Schulze : Friedhöfe. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 193-196; here: p. 195; online through google books
  2. ↑ a b c d Wolfgang Neß : The village area and map 13 Misburg-Nord. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 2, Volume 10.2 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , pp. 60f., 179f .; as well as Misburg-Nord in the addendum directory of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover. P. 27
  3. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Misburg. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 444f.
  4. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Am Seelberg , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 21
  5. ↑ Juan Carlos Blancos Varela, Wolfgang Illmer : Graves are reburied , in Wolfgang Illmer (Hrsg.) Et al. : Chronicle Misburg. Origin to Present , 1st edition, Hannover-Misburg: W. Illmer, 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-038582-7 , p. 95

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 15.8 "  N , 9 ° 50 ′ 46"  E