Blankenese cemetery

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Family grave in the older part of the cemetery
Sculpture in the urn grave field

The Blankenese cemetery is a Protestant cemetery in the Hamburg district of Sülldorf . It has an area of ​​around 17.5 hectares and has been under protection since the revision of the Hamburg Monument Protection Act in 2013. The cemetery supplies the eponymous Hamburg district of Blankenese as well as the districts of Sülldorf , Rissen , Iserbrook and parts of Schenefeld in the Pinneberg district.

history

Emergence

When Blankenese was spun off from the parish of Nienstedten , the new community decided not only to build its own church as a sign of independence, but also to build its own cemetery. This was inaugurated on April 20, 1902. Additional buildings such as a gate, morgue and a residential building for employees were built by 1903.

In the older part there are individual elements of the landscape, for example a pond in the south-western area. The originally existing landscape with kinks and single trees was included in the design. Today the cemetery has a fairly dense tree population in all its parts. The area of ​​the cemetery has more than quadrupled since 1902, and the first expansion was necessary in 1907.

Cemetery chapel

The chapel from 1927 designed the architect F. Winkelmann as a typical clinker brick building of reform architecture with decorative elements made of ceramic and a parabolic interior. Until a separate church was built in Sülldorf, the chapel was also used for regular services. The modern bell tower was added in 1962 based on designs by Friedhelm Grundmann .

Naming

The builder of the cemetery was the Blankenese parish , which existed from 1902 and also included the present-day town of Sülldorf. At the time the cemetery was built, the area up to Osdorfer Landstrasse belonged to the independent municipality of Blankenese , came under the Lower Elbe Act in 1927 to what was then the Altona district of Blankenese and has been part of the Hamburg district of Sülldorf since the regional reform of 1939 . The cemetery became the property of the new parish of Blankenese, the combination of name and location is still reminiscent of the earlier larger size of the parish.

Graves

In the cemetery there are classic row and urn graves as well as natural grave areas and urn grave fields with a common memorial stone. For the anonymous urn grave field, Fritz Fleer created a bronze sculpture in 1983 with the motif Jonas and the whale, with which he wanted to allude to the old fishing tradition in Blankenese beyond its religious significance.

Since October 3, 1920 there has been a war memorial for those who fell in the First World War .

Well-known personalities who were buried in the cemetery:

Photographs and map

Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 28 ″  N , 9 ° 48 ′ 5 ″  E

Map: Hamburg
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  • South facade of the chapel

  • Bell tower

  • East entrance

  • Fountain behind the east entrance

  • Designed grave from the 1990s

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Size information according to the cemetery homepage. Retrieved March 31, 2016.
  2. ↑ Area measurement via Google Maps.
  3. ↑ a b c d Overview of the history on the homepage of the cemetery. Retrieved October 5, 2017.
  4. ↑ Representation of the landscape design on the homepage of the cemetery. Retrieved October 5, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b c d For the history of the parishes on the homepage of the cemetery. Retrieved October 5, 2017.
  6. ↑ Existing grave types on the homepage of the cemetery. Retrieved October 5, 2017.
  7. ^ Description of the sculpture on the cemetery homepage. Retrieved October 5, 2017.
  8. ↑ For the double interpretation of the Fleer sculpture see Leisner, Fischer: Der Friedhofsführer . S. 102 .

Web links

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