Brockeswalde cemetery

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Brockeswalde cemetery

The municipal cemetery Brockeswalde in Cuxhaven - Stickenbüttel , Sahlenburger Chaussee 15 at the forest Brockeswald, is the central and largest cemetery in the city.
The buildings are included in the list of architectural monuments of the outer districts of the city of Cuxhaven .

history

Around 1913, Cuxhaven acquired 11 hectares of land south of the Brockeswald in order to create a municipal cemetery. It was not until 1926 that the site was increased by 1.5–2.5 m with sand and rubble as part of job creation measures. The park-like cemetery was laid out according to plans by the Jung city council and based on the model of the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg and inaugurated in 1931. The brick-built funeral hall from 1933 for 160 guests with a wide covered walkway is reached via a brick driveway from Sahlenburger Chaussee. The cemetery administration is also located here. The brick crematorium was built by 1931, which was replaced by a new facility in 1997. In 2003 the crematorium was leased to a company in Stade.

Memorial plaques

In 1939 a seafarers memorial was erected.

The cemetery was expanded west of the street Am Brockeswalder Friedhof from 1970 . It is now 20.8 ha.

Memorial plaques

467 victims lie on the 1,800 m² war cemetery. a. of the two world wars. Memorial plaques from 1968 remember thousands of victims in Cuxhaven and the sponsor town of Schneidemühl . 14 members of the mines clearance service, who were only recovered in 1954 from the wreckage of the Altenbruch , which sank in 1946, rest in a communal grave .

Special grave sites

Olfer's grave

Further cemeteries in Cuxhaven

Web links

Commons : Brockeswalde cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Cuxpedia: Cemetery Brockeswalde .

Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 45.3 "  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 55"  E