Göggingen cemetery

The Göggingen cemetery is located in the Göggingen district of Augsburg . It is designated as an architectural monument.

history

The first burial took place in the cemetery of Göggingen in 1875 . In total, the Gottesacker was expanded five times, most recently in 1976. The old core is in the south, with grave monuments from the 19th and 20th centuries. Century. The imposing grave monument of Friedrich Hessing , the founder of the Hessing Clinic, is well worth seeing . Due to the various extensions, the Göggingen cemetery is structured very differently. It unites in itself: Alleequatier, forest and park cemetery.

When Göggingen was an independent town from 1969 to 1972, the morgue, the funeral hall with large colored glass windows and a cross relief by the sculptor Sepp Masteller and the administration building by the architect Michael Egger were planned and built. With the incorporation of Göggingen into the city of Augsburg, responsibility for the cemetery was transferred to the cemetery administration of the city of Augsburg.

Due to its location in the middle of a residential area on the edge of the Wertachauen, the cemetery is also used as a park.

On field T 76/7 there is an Islamic cemetery with around 20 grave fields. There is also a Russian burial ground in the cemetery. The "Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime" (Kreisvereinigung Augsburg) assumes on its homepage that it concerns graves of forced laborers of the Gögginger camp. Since the "Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime" does not give a source, the truthfulness of this statement cannot be proven with the necessary historical meticulousness.