Heddernheim cemetery
Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 12.7 ″ N , 8 ° 38 ′ 13.7 ″ E
The Heddernheim cemetery has been the cemetery of today's district of Frankfurt am Main , Heddernheim , since 1881 . It is on the street In der Römerstadt 129 .
history
In 1872 the cemetery was laid out outside the village of Heddernheim. With an area of 1.02 hectares, it offers space for 1000 graves on tubs A to D. With the construction of the Römerstadt settlement at the end of the 1920s, the cemetery became the focus of this settlement.
Two memorials in the cemetery commemorate those who died in the war.
List of listed graves in the cemetery
image | Won | Name (s) | year | Stonemason | description |
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A / 11-13 | Frey-Ripps-Mildner | 1914 | Cross memorial, framed on both sides by tablets with engraved floral ornaments. The tomb is made of polished black granite . | |
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A / 8-10 | Nohstadt buses | 1919 | Black granite stele with a cross relief, flanked by half-height pillars. | |
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A / 14-15 | Fergenbauer | 1916 | Polished black granite cross memorial. | |
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A / 145 | Dehydrator | 1920 | Heinrich & Wilhelm Knorr | Column monument in the tradition of the late 19th century made of sandstone. |
A / 18-19 | Minstrel | 1916 | F. Hofmeister | Aedicule-like stele made of polished black granite with a curved pediment. The writing areas are oval and framed by wreath reliefs. | |
B / 22-25 | Hesse | 1908 | F. Hofmeister | The grave of the founder of the Heddernheimer Kupferwerke, Hubert Hesse (1826–1908) is a neoclassical aedicule made of polished black granite. It is based on the model of ancient Egyptian portal buildings. | |
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C / 1-3 | black | 1921 | Aedicule flanked by black granite tablets. | |
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C / 24-28 | Heislitz-Jung-Rauberger | 1928/1950 | Heinrich & Wilhelm Knorr / Heinrich Knorr | Wall steles made of matt polished black Swedish granite, arranged in pairs, with triple stepped side edges. |
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C / 90-91 | Walther-Dörr | 1926 | Heinrich & Wilhelm Knorr | Neoclassical aedicula made of artificial stone with writing tablet made of Odenwald granite. |
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C / 19-20 | Hesse-Reith | 1903, rededicated in 1999 | Cross memorial in forms of the Renaissance made of marble . | |
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C / 42 | court | 1923 | Heinrich & Wilhelm Knorr | The honor grave is an aedicula in simple neoclassical forms made of bush hammered granite. |
C / adM 27-28 | Jamin | 1890 | Gabled marble stele with black granite writing tablets with poppy seed capsules in relief in the gable field. | ||
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C / adM 31-32 | Bruchhäuser | 1953 (second use) | Limestone stele in Renaissance forms. | |
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D / 215-217 | Grave site of the Catholic parish Alt-Heddernheim | 1959 | Heinrich Dieter (Darmstadt-Eberstadt) | A modern interpretation of the figure of Christ made of dark gray Wirbelan marble. |
D / 41-42 | Wenceslaus | 1912 | The grave of the Heddernheim mayor Hektor Wenzel (1845–1911) is a broad neoclassical aedicule made of shell limestone. |
literature
- Volker Rödel: Monument topography / The Frankfurt district cemeteries, ISBN 978-3-921606-61-2 , 2007, pp. 90–93
Web links
Commons : Friedhof Heddernheim - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Heddernheim cemetery at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the City of Frankfurt am Main