Fechenheim cemetery

The Fechenheim cemetery is the cemetery of Frankfurt-Fechenheim , a district of Frankfurt am Main .

General

The cemetery (address: Steinäckerstraße 13) is located on the high bank of the Main . It was created there by the then independent community of Fechenheim in 1845 (then on the outskirts of the village). Before that, the dead had been buried in the churchyard.

The cemetery was given its current shape and size of 6.4 hectares after it was incorporated into Frankfurt in 1928 and the neoclassical mourning hall was built between 1926 and 1929.

The mourning hall, the memorial and a number of graves are listed as historical monuments .

The mourning hall

Mourning hall

The mourning hall in neoclassical forms from 1926–29 stands at the head end of Steinäckerstraße. This results in a front side of the mourning hall from the cemetery to the street. The central porch, which is supported by four monumental columns, is striking. There is a pointed roof above. The impression of symmetry from the front is deceptive. The building has an L-shaped floor plan. In addition to the rectangular main room for funeral ceremonies, side rooms are built in.

The memorial

cenotaph

The memorial is located on the cemetery wall facing the Main. It consists of a green area with symmetrically arranged small stone crosses as a burial ground. A massive three-part monument rises in the middle. The three pillars made of facing concrete with a red sandstone character are connected by high reliefs of two warriors keeping watch. The memorial was donated by the Fechenheim Warrior Association and erected from 1938. Artistic advice was provided by the director of the Städelschule, Prof. Richard Lisker , and the execution by the sculptor Hermann Becker . Max Bromme was responsible for the green space design .

Listed graves

image	Won	Name (s)	year	Stonemason	description
	A adM 16	Kullmann-Ewald	1911	Steinmetz H. Schäfer, Fechenheim	Wide soaked grave monument with central shrine of polished dark granite in forms of Renaissance .
	A adM 20a	Siebel-Zengel	1905	0	Elaborate wall grave made of light sandstone. The aedicula on fluted pilasters with Corinthian capitals is designed in neo-Renaissance forms.
	A adM versus A III 1	Bold	1914	0	Limestone cube with a helmet sculpture above it. The tomb commemorates the Fechenheim teacher Karl Christian Kühn, who fell at the beginning of the First World War
	A adM 23	Müller-Kühn	1923	F. Hofmeister	Wall stele in expressionist forms made of limestone.
	A adM 35	clover	1904	0	The grave is a wall memorial as an aedicule with wing plates made of polished black granite. It is kept in simplified forms of the neo-renaissance.
	A 1/14	Meyer	1929	Gebr. Wagner	Aedicula made of limestone, framed by half-height wall panels. In the arched niches of the neoclassical monument there is an angel engraving and a cornucopia with emptying flowers. A name cartouche surrounded by flowers is located above the central plaque.
	A adM 37	Becker	1904	0	Wall plate made of polished black gramite under a final cross supported by volutes.
0	A 11/22	Bingemer	1932	Philipp Ewald	Writing stele with unequal corner pillars made of dark diabase
	A IV / 1	Pastors' graves of the Catholic parish	1931	Steinmetz Bebrüder Mayer, Fechenheim	Central crucifix made of cut Kössein granite. In addition, spaced cubes and separately set up smaller crosses.
	A IV / 18	Dehe	1939	Steinmetz Christoph Mayer & Son	Sneaky stele made of black Swedish granite. In the tondo there is a relief of a rose branch.
	A IV / 20	Ulrich	1966	F. Hofmeister	Writing stele made of black granite with an abstracted gable end.
	A IV / 31	Butcher	1963	F. Hofmeister	Stele made of dark diabase with label-like protruding writing field.
	A IV / 32	Claus-Jaeger	1933 (1946)	Stonemason Philipp Ewald	Limestone stele horizontally divided by brackets under a flat roof.
0	A IV / 33	Knoll	1936	Steinmetz Philipp Schäfer	Slender stele made of dark, polished Odenwald syenite with a semicircular niche to hold an urn.
	A IV / 38	Gottmann	1978	Theo Akkermann	Bronze cross modeled in free artistic forms with rich pictorial decorations
	A IV adM 2	Manz-Schormann	1913	Gebr. Wagner	Black granite wall plate. The writing, framed by a festoon , stands out from the rough treated stone surface.
	A IV adM 1	Schack-Kühn	1911	August Bischoff	In front of the unadorned limestone aedicule is a sculpture of a seated mourner holding a wreath.
	A IV adM 6	Ewald	1913	Steinmetz Hch. shepherd	Wall memorial made of dark granite and gabled in the middle, divided into three parts by pilaster strips. There are bronze wreaths above the writing fields on the side and a bas-relief with a cross over stylized palm branches in the tail gable.
	A IV adM 5	Schack	1913	Steinmetz A. Ph. Puth Erben	Aedicule made of polished black granite, the entablature supported by Doric half-columns.
	A IV adM 7	Puth	1913	0	Gabled black granite stele with an urn on top. In the gable field a relief of a poppy plant as a symbol of sleep.
	AV 1	Bold	1910	Steinmetz H. Schäfer / Plastic: Electroplating * G * Geislingen * S	Five-part, wide monument made of dark granite. In the middle there is a sculpture of a life-size angel made of electroplated bronze.
0	AV 2	Bold	1907	0	Wall panel clamped between the corner pillars with segmental arches made of limestone in the style of neoclassicism.
0	B d 11	Weber	1924	Steinmetz Gebrüder Meyer, Fechenheim	Three-part stele made of polished black granite with a portrait relief made of galvanized bronze, surrounded by a festoon, also made of bronze.
	B d / 18	Schack	1924	0	Camp-like aedicule of Reform Classicism made of bush-hammered granite. In front of it is the sculpture of an angel made of marble.
	B x / 5	Old	1927	0	Aedicule-like stele made of red granite with a black granite tablet and bronze relief of a kneeling mourner.
	B i / 9	Müller	1934	0	Simplified red granite aedicule. In the central niche there is a relief of a mourner made of galvanized bronze.

literature

• City of Frankfurt am Main: The cemetery guide, March 2012
• Volker Rödel: Monument topography / The Frankfurt district cemeteries, ISBN 978-3-921606-61-2 , 2007, pp. 62–69

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Tombs on the district cemetery In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
2. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Friedhofskapelle In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse

Web links

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

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 11.9 ″  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 25.7 ″  E