Groß Flottbek cemetery
The Groß Flottbek cemetery is a Protestant cemetery in the Hamburg district of Bahrenfeld . It has an area of around 9.5 hectares and has been under protection since the new version of the Hamburg Monument Protection Act in 2013.
history
Emergence
When Groß Flottbek was spun off from the parish of Nienstedten , the new municipality decided to build its own cemetery as a sign of independence. The purchase of the first 4 hectare part of today's site took place on August 22, 1908, the opening was already on May 24, 1909. The design of the facility by the horticultural engineer Christian Brügmann is reminiscent of the old part of the Ohlsdorf cemetery in the northern part . here too, large trees and rhododendrons dominate . In the southern part, the design was chosen as a hedge and lawn cemetery. The floor plan takes the motif of the Christian cross as the basis for the main paths. With the construction of the cemetery chapel, the entrance area to Street Stiller Weg received a roundabout planted with rhododendrons.
In three expansion steps in 1927 (1.5 hectares), 1938 (approx. 9 hectares) and 1954, the area grew to its present size. The last property purchase of a total of 3.5 hectares also included areas on which a church retirement home and buildings for the newly created Bugenhagen parish (today: Jugendkirche Hamburg-West ) were to be built.
Cemetery chapel
The chapel from 1928 was designed by the architects Raabe & Wöhlecke as a typical clinker brick building from Expressionism with individual decorative elements such as the terracotta columns in the front gallery. The floor plan corresponds to a classic basilica , the roof is noticeably steep. The topping-out ceremony for the chapel was on September 17, 1927, and the inauguration on July 15, 1928. Since November 24, 1974, there has been a bell cage separate from the chapel with a single bell. The chapel was renovated in 2010 and received a modernized lighting and color concept. Parts of the interior are still in their original condition today.
Naming
The builder of the cemetery is the Evangelical parish of Groß Flottbek, which is still the operator today. At the time the cemetery was built, the area north of Osdorfer Landstrasse belonged to the independent community of Groß Flottbek , came to the then Altona district of Groß Flottbek with the Lower Elbe Law in 1927 and has belonged to the Hamburg district of Bahrenfeld since the regional reform of 1939 . The name of the cemetery has been retained over the years despite the repeated changes in administrative responsibility.
Graves
In the cemetery there are classic row and urn graves as well as urn grave fields with a common memorial stone. In addition, there is a specially designed grave field for children, which is known as the "place of unforgettable children".
A sculpture on the side wing of the chapel and the tombstone for Otto Ernst were made by the sculptor Arthur Bock .
In addition to the chapel, there is also a small field with tombstones from the Wilhelminian era . A noticeable number of large boulders from the immediate area were used, especially for the older graves in the forest .
Well-known personalities who were buried in the cemetery are:
- Otto Ernst - writer (1862-1926)
- Wolf von Baudissin - general and peace researcher (1907–1993)
- Günter Lüdke - actor (1930–2011), buried anonymously in a tree grave.
- Siegfried Lenz - writer (1926-2014)
- Erik von Witzleben - large landowner and politician (1884–1958)
- Axel Springer junior - photographer and journalist (1941–1980)
Photographs and map
Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 26 " N , 9 ° 52 ′ 15" E
Location map
Grave v. Baudissin
Parts of the grave complex
"Place of the unforgotten children"
"Mausoleum" at the end of the central axis
Graves in the forest
literature
- Barbara Leisner, Norbert Fischer : The cemetery guide . Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-7672-1215-3 , p. 98 f., 213 .
- Hans Oppermann: 50 years of Gross-Flottbek Church (1912-1962) . Phönix-Verlag, Hamburg 1962, p. 7, 22, 46 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Size information according to the cemetery homepage. Retrieved March 31, 2016.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h History of the cemetery on the homepage. Retrieved March 31, 2016.
- ↑ Oppermann gives the date of inauguration as July 17, 1928.
- ^ History of the cemetery chapel on the cemetery homepage. Retrieved March 31, 2016.
- ^ "Place of the unforgotten children" on the homepage of the cemetery. Retrieved March 31, 2016.
- ↑ Description ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the grave of Siegfried Lenz on Hamburger Allgemeine Online-Rundschau . Retrieved January 28, 2016.
Web links
- Website of the responsible parish.
- Website of the cemetery