Bergedorf cemetery

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Chapel 1 at the Bergedorf cemetery in Hamburg
Bell tower chapel 2 at the Bergedorf cemetery in Börnsen

The New Bergedorf Cemetery is a near-natural burial site directly on the Geest slope in Hamburg's easternmost district of Bergedorf . The state border with Schleswig-Holstein runs right across the cemetery grounds - parallel to August-Bebel-Strasse . Half of the cemetery area is allocated to the city-state of Hamburg and the municipalities of Wentorf and Börnsen in the Duchy of Lauenburg .

Grave fields

The older part of the cemetery was created in 1907 as a park-like burial place (forest cemetery) and was designed by Wilhelm Cordes , the architect and then director of the Ohlsdorf cemetery . In the years 1909 to 1912 the construction of a funeral hall (chapel 1) in " baroque brick architecture " followed.
To commemorate the dead of the First World War , a memorial designed by Friedrich Wield with the inscription “The victims” was erected in 1923 .

  • F.Wield Bergedf (1) .jpg
  • F.Wield Bergedf (3) .jpg
  • F.Wield Bergedf (2) .jpg

Since the capacity of the cemetery was no longer sufficient, after 1948 it was expanded beyond the Hamburg city limits to Wentorf and Börnsen. In 1972, another funeral hall (Chapel 2) was built in the northeastern part of the cemetery.

There are civil graves on the cemetery grounds, the German war cemetery in Hamburg-Bergedorf , a memorial to those who died in both world wars and the Soviet war cemetery in Hamburg-Bergedorf . In 2004, a burial place for Muslim citizens from the Hamburg city region was created as a separate cemetery area (Islamic cemetery Bergedorf).

Graves of known people

Grave of the Hulbe family in the Bergedorf cemetery

Well-known people buried in the cemetery:

  • Claus Arndt (1927–2014), lawyer and politician
  • Werner Hackmann (1947–2007), SPD politician, Hamburg Senator for the Interior, later HSV President and member of the Bundesliga board
  • Ernst Henning (1892–1931), KPD member of parliament, murdered by SA men
  • Marie Henning (1895–1948), MPD member of parliament, widow of Ernst Henning
  • Georg Hulbe (1851–1917), leather craftsman at the time of historicism and art nouveau
  • Kurt A. Körber (1909–1992), entrepreneur and honorary citizen of Hamburg
  • Fritz Laband (1925–1982), HSV national soccer player and 1954 world champion
  • Hans Martin Dorotheus Lange (1863–1913), lawyer and mayor of Bergedorf
  • Hermann Friedrich Messtorff (1854–1915), owner of the rubber company Behn & Co. Today, the Bergedorf District Office is at home in his villa (architect Johannes Grothjan)
  • Ferdinand Pfohl (1862–1949), music critic and writer
  • Friedrich Schütter (1921–1995), actor and director
  • Bernhard Schmidt (1879–1935), optician and astronomer
  • Rudolf Sieverts (1842–1921), factory owner, founder of the Bergedorf chair tube factory
  • Georg Martin Staunau (1855–1913), court clerk and local writer

In the old cemetery on Gojenbergsweg, which was converted into a park, there are still a few, but historically important gravestones from old Bergedorf families and people. These include a. Rector Georg Friedrich Ritter (1800–1879), Hans Hinrich Behr (1830–1902) and Mayor Ernst Mantius (1838–1897).

literature

  • Harald Richert: Wilhelm Cordes - 1907 builder of the Bergedorf cemetery . In: Lichtwark booklet No. 71. HB-Werbung publishing house, Hamburg-Bergedorf, 2006. ISSN  1862-3549 .

Web links

Commons : Friedhof Bergedorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The (new) Bergedorfer Friedhof
  2. ↑ Gerd Hoffmann: Bergedorf cemetery ... its monuments tell a story PDF 660 kB
  3. ↑ Fallen memorials: Hamburg-Bergedorf cemetery

Coordinates: 53 ° 28 '48.4 "  N , 10 ° 15' 2.9"  E