Buckau cemetery
The Buckauer Friedhof is a cemetery in Magdeburg , the state capital of Saxony-Anhalt .
location
The cemetery was created for today's Buckau district , but is located within the boundaries of the Fermersleben district . For a long time it was therefore called Buckauer Friedhof vor Fermersleben . Sometimes the name Fermersleber Friedhof is also in use. The cemetery has an area of 7.69 hectares and is located east of the Alt Fermersleben street . A central path runs through the complex from north to south. This is crossed by two paths running from west to east.
history
The original cemetery of the village Buckau was located in the area of the former church of the village, a predecessor of today's Sankt-Gertrauden-Kirche . In 1837 a new cemetery was consecrated between today's Karl-Schmidt-Strasse and Schönebecker Strasse . The late shepherd master of the Berge monastery was buried for the first time. Due to the onset of industrialization, Buckau's population grew rapidly, so that as early as 1859 another new cemetery was set up near what was then the gas works . The first funeral was performed on December 19, 1859.
However, Buckau's continued strong growth made a new plant necessary. When looking for a location, it turned out to be a hindrance that most of the land in the district belonged to the former Berge monastery and this demanded a property price that seemed too high for the Buckauers. They therefore avoided the area around the southern village of Fermersleben , where around 1872 six acres were bought cheaply from Mahrenholz , four acres from CA Schmidt and one acre from Wilhelms at 1,000 thalers per acre each. The low land prices were also due to the fact that Fort I belonging to the Magdeburg Fortress was built in the immediate vicinity . The resulting rayon regulations made it very difficult to develop the area elsewhere.
The planning for the cemetery complex was carried out by the Magdeburg garden director Paul Niemeyer . He also determined that the hereditary burial sites should be laid out on the edge of the cemetery and demarcated with iron latticework. A wooden barrack was built as a precaution against epidemics . The cost was 1,409.22 marks. The consecration of the new, still existing cemetery took place on April 5, 1876 by the preachers Rogge and Lemme. The first burial was the funeral of Therese Degenhard, who died at the age of 15 . In 1897 the cemetery was extended by 4 hectares to the south in the direction of Fermersleben. The planning for this was done by gardening director Johann Gottlieb Schoch . The Buckauer Friedhof thus reached its present size.
After the end of the First World War , a large boulder was built for the Buckau war victims at the eastern end of the southern crossway, which is still at the end of this visual axis. There was a wooden chapel in the north crossing.
Towards the end of the Second World War , the cemetery was the battleground. On April 15 and 16, 1945, US troops moving from the south, coming from Salbke and Fermersleben, towards Buckau, were fired at with guns driven into the cemetery .
Instead of the wooden chapel, which was demolished because of its dilapidation , a celebration hall designed by the architect Burkhardt Leu was built at the main entrance , which offers space for 60 guests. In addition, there is a farewell room with 14 seats and a showroom with 12 seats. In 1982 a urn community facility was built a little further east of the celebration hall with a stylized flower made of metal by Josef Bzdok .
In addition to the urn community facility , the cemetery includes row graves and optional graves for burials and urn burials.
Funerals of well-known personalities
The tomb of the Buckau mayor Bruno Thiem (1823–1913) is located in the cemetery . The Magdeburg resistance fighter against National Socialism Otto Lehmann (1900–1936) was also buried here .
literature
- Hans-Joachim Krenzke, Magdeburg Cemeteries and Burial Places, State Capital Magdeburg 1998, page 125 ff.
- The cemetery guide, MAMMUT-Verlag Leipzig 2008, page 42 ff.
Individual evidence
- ^ CA Schmidt, Chronik der Stadt Buckau , 1887, page 182
- ^ "Then the sky turned blood red ...", The Destruction of Magdeburg on January 16, 1945 , editor Matthias Puhle , Magdeburg 1995, ISBN 3-930030-12-8 , page 132
Coordinates: 52 ° 5 ′ 51.5 ″ N , 11 ° 39 ′ 4.5 ″ E