Frauenberg cemetery

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Frauenberg cemetery (center of the excavation hall ) to the right of the Kalvarienberg
The cemetery chapel at the cemetery with forecourt

The Frauenberg cemetery is a municipal cemetery in Fulda on the northern slope of the Kalvarienberg below the Frauenberg monastery .

The cemetery was originally laid out in 1894 as a cemetery for the then independent community of Horas, west of the village, between Kalvarienberg and Klosterberg.

Extensions were made down the slope to the regional railway line Fulda-Gießen. With an area of ​​96,474 square meters , it offers space for 5,700 graves.

The cemetery cross from the time shortly after the cemetery was opened is described as a simple cross and is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

Known buried

  • Anton Storch (1892–1975), politician, born in Fulda. Federal Minister for Labor from 1949–1957.
  • Heinrich Beck (politician) (1911–1986) (CDU politician), from 1946 to 1972 he was district administrator in Hünfeld and member of the Hessian state parliament .
  • Alfred Dregger (1920–2002), politician, 1956–1970 mayor of Fulda, 1982–1991 chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Dieter Griesbach-Maisant: Cultural monuments in Hesse. City of Fulda , Stuttgart et al. 1992 (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany), p. 88.
  2. ↑ Magistrate of the City of Fulda (ed.): Mourning, Encounter and Consolation - Cemetery Brochure of the City of Fulda , September 2006 ( online as pdf )

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 52.6 "  N , 9 ° 40 ′ 13"  E