Döhlen cemetery

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The entrance to the cemetery from Nordstrasse

The cemetery Döhlen is the cemetery of Luther parish from the Freitaler district Döhlen . It is located on Nordstrasse not far from the church and the Döhlen town hall . The 2.44 hectare facility is divided into an old and a new cemetery.

Access to the cemetery is from Nordstraße via a steep, paved path directly behind the former Döhlen town hall. Right next to the entrance gate is the death bed master's small two-story house. It has the address Nordstraße 1. Behind it, the old cemetery, also known as the terrace cemetery, extends along the street. After a few meters and behind the listed house for the cemetery gardener, a path branches off to the left, which leads through the new cemetery. In the front part of the new cemetery there is a neo-Gothic cemetery chapel built in 1871 , which is surrounded by the main path.

Individual and miner's graves as well as the enclosures of the old and new cemetery are under monument protection and are therefore registered Döhlen cultural monuments.

Graves

The grave of Wilhelmine Reichard (1788–1848) and her husband is located in the old cemetery . Reichard is the first woman balloonist in Germany and lived in Döhlen from 1814 until her death.

The new cemetery was created in connection with the firedamp explosion in the Segen-Gottes- und Neuhoffnungsschacht in Burgk in 1869 . Out of a total of 276 victims of this mining accident, 31 miners were buried in the Döhlen cemetery. The other casualties were buried in a new grave on the Windberg . Another miner's grave dates back to 1876 and commemorates 25 miners who died in a firedamp explosion in the Windberg shaft on December 10, 1876 .

After the Second World War , 114 victims of the air raids on Freital and Gittersee in August 1945 were buried in the Döhlen cemetery. These included 33 male Soviet prisoners of war and forced laborers from Birkigt and ten prisoners of war from Krille's inn . Their graves were only uncovered again in the 1990s. After 2012, the graves were reburied to form an existing Soviet military grave and given another memorial stone. There are also graves of local fallen soldiers from both world wars.

  • Graves in the Döhlen cemetery

  • Tomb for Wilhelmine Reichard

  • Miner's grave

  • Gravesite of Russian fallen soldiers

  • Memorial to victims of the bombing raid on Birkigt

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Döhlen cemetery. In: kirche-freital.de. Evangelical-Lutheran Parish Freital, accessed on February 28, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Stadtverwaltung Freital (Hrsg.): Monuments in Freital - workshop report 3 of a municipal working group against forgetting . Freital 2013, DNB  1031351183 , p. 35-41 .
  3. ^ Wilhelmine Reichard - the first German balloonist. In: ballon-dresden.de. Retrieved February 28, 2016 .
  4. ^ Fritz Eckhardt: Guide through Freital and the Plauen reason. Tourist office Plauenscher Grund, 1925
  5. ↑ Jana Krupa: Dignified grave complex in the Döhlen cemetery for the victims of war and tyranny. (PDF; 18 KB) In: volksbund.de. Stadtbauamt Freital, accessed on February 28, 2016 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 0 '26.3 "  N , 13 ° 38' 59.9"  E