Finkenriek cemetery

Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg, Finkenriek cemetery: southern part. Chapel.

The Finkenriek cemetery is a municipal park cemetery on the Elbe island of Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg .

location

The cemetery is located in the south of the Elbe island and borders on the Süderelbe . It is protected by the Finkenrieker main dike. It is located near the A 1 motorway exit, Stillhorn.

layout

Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg, Finkenriek cemetery: southern and northern part. Location map.

Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg, Finkenriek cemetery: Free-standing tower of the chapel with a monument to the flood victims to commemorate the helpers and victims of the storm surge in 1962.

Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg, Finkenriek cemetery: southern part. West-East Avenue.

The cemetery was opened in 1957. The southern part of the old cemetery with the chapel and the northern part of the new cemetery are separated by the König-Georg-Deich road. On the bell tower of the chapel, a black metal relief commemorates the flood victims. The inscription reads: "In memory of all who lost their lives to save others - storm surge in February 1962" With 360 earth and urn burials and 8,500 grave sites, it is the largest cemetery on the Elbe island. In the north of the new part, in grave fields 25–27, there are the Muslim grave fields. The grave fields of the southern part are accessed through a west-east avenue, the grave fields of the northern part through a south-north axis.

Web links

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

• Finkenriek cemetery at bestattungsatlas.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Flood Victims Foundation from 1962 (ed.): Help that is still effective today. 50 Years of the Flood Victims Foundation from 1962. Brochure, Hamburg 2012, p. 17
2. ↑ Finkenriek Cemetery. In: Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg: Der Friedhofswegweiser, Mammut-Verlag, Leipzig 2008, pp. 86–88.

Coordinates: 53 ° 28 ′ 31 ″  N , 10 ° 0 ′ 21 ″  E