Eschelbronn cemetery
The Eschelbronn cemetery is a cemetery on the Vorderen Weißenberg in the Baden-Württemberg community of Eschelbronn in the Rhein-Neckar district .
history
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In front of today's cemetery, according to stories and bone finds, there was a local burial site next to the Lutheran church built in 1575 , in the place of which the Protestant church was later built.
Today's cemetery was given a new driveway in 1962, with an existing ice cellar being filled in to store beer for local breweries. In 1966 a morgue with an ecumenical chapel was built. Since 1974/1974 there has been a water supply line from the local network to the elevated reservoir in the Weißer Berg Gewann via the rear part of the cemetery.
In the 20th century, the cemetery was delimited to the west by a row of locust trees . The trees were felled in 1996 to allow a clear view of the community, which caused internal controversy.
In 2019 there were redevelopment plans for the cemetery. This included renovating the stairs and creating burial facilities under trees.
Chapel and morgue
At first, there was only a tool shed on the eastern cemetery wall on the cemetery grounds.
With the population growth after the Second World War , the need for a morgue in the cemetery to store the dead increased in the following decades . For this purpose, surrounding land was acquired in 1960 under the then mayor Philipp Dinkel and in 1966 an ecumenical chapel with an associated mortuary was completed according to plans by the Eschelbronn architect Albert Dieruff.
The chapel has a four meter high and three meter long lead glass window by Dietrich Flamme on the north side , consisting of over 20,000 pieces of glass. After the metal construction became discolored and rusted, a replica was made in 1987 by the Glaskunst Nikolaus Dierig company from Überlingen on Lake Constance and used in 1988.
Monuments
War memorial
The war memorial from 1886 commemorates the Franco-German War and its participants and victims. It was moved to the forecourt at the entrance to the cemetery in 1963 and is located opposite the cemetery chapel and the memorial for the victims of the world wars.
It is five meters high and was carved from red sandstone . There is an eagle on the stele . The names of the 44 citizens from Eschelbronn who took part in the war are engraved on the memorial; partly with indication of rank . Adam Heilmann, who died near Dijon on December 19, 1870, is specially highlighted on the front .
Memorial to the victims of the world wars
Opposite the war memorial, also on the forecourt of the entrance area of the cemetery, is the memorial for the victims of the world wars and the victims of the displacement of 1945/46. It was erected to commemorate those who died in the First and Second World War and those who were displaced .
The memorial represents a cross and bears the following inscription:
| 1914 -1918 |
THE DEAD IN HONOR THE LIVING IN A WARNING |
1939 -1945 |
Behind it on the left are five plaques with the names of the people and another with a cross in memory of the displaced persons.
Georg Ziegler grave and memorial plaque
For the missionary Georg Ziegler (1859–1923), who worked in China , there is a commemorative plaque above the tombstone of him and his wife Johanna in the cemetery.
In 1907, Ziegler became General President of the Basel Evangelical Mission Society and received an honorary doctorate from the theological faculty of Heidelberg University .
The plaque was donated by Wilfried Wolf in 1997 and contains the following inscription:
- In memory of a great son in our congregation
- Missionary Georg Ziegler
- Honorary doctorate from the university's theological faculty
- Heidelberg. General Praeses of the Evangelical Mission in China.
- His life's work is in the local history from 1989
- written down.
- Memorial donated by
- Wilfried Wolf, July 1997
Winter linden
Until October 2019, there was a linden tree at the cemetery, which was designated as a natural monument, which was probably planted at the same time as the old linden tree before 1850 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Karin Mayer-Namnik and Joachim Friedel: My friend the tree ....? in Howwl No. 12, Heimatblatt des Schreinerdorf Eschelbronn, 1996, p. 29 ff.
- ↑ Helmut Stier: Memories of the Eiskeller in Howwl No. 26, Heimatblatt des Schreinerdorf Eschelbronn, 2005, p. 38 ff.
- ↑ Helmut Schifferdecker: Supply and disposal facilities in 1200 years Eschelbronn, 789–1989 , p. 327 ff.
- ↑ Broadband, LED, streets, water: Eschelbronn invests in 2019. Accessed on May 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Wilfried Wolf: The new morgue , in 1200 years Eschelbronn 789–1989 , p. 76 ff.
- ↑ Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Eschelbronn: About the linden tree and its romantic spot in Eschelbronn - your home , p. 103 f.
Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 58.7 " N , 8 ° 51 ′ 52.2" E