Heslach cemetery

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Cemetery plan.

The Stuttgart cemetery Heslach was laid out in 1798 and is located in the Heslach district in the Stuttgart-Süd district .

The cemetery area covers around 1.5 hectares and is divided into sections 1–15 with around 2500 grave sites. On the cemetery area there is a morgue, a funeral hall with service building, a storage hall with a guard's room, the cruciform church and the Benckendorff mausoleum, which protrudes from all graves due to its size. In the southeast, the cemetery meets the lively Böblinger Straße with the U1 and U14 trams, which stop at the "Bihlplatz" stop (formerly: "Benkendorffstraße"). In the northeast, Benckendorffstrasse leads past the cemetery, named after Count Benckendorff, whose mausoleum is in the cemetery.

history

Kreuzkirche.
Benckendorff mausoleum.

With the construction of the old church on Bihlplatz, not far from today's Kreuzkirche, Heslach also received a churchyard in 1554. In 1798, a new cemetery was laid out in Baumreute west of what was then Heslach, as the cemetery could no longer be expanded. The Benckendorff mausoleum was built in 1823 and the storage hall with a guard's room in 1893. The main entrance from 1897 is no longer there today, as is a waiting room and a guard house. The cruciform church at the northeast corner of the cemetery was consecrated in 1931. In 1962 a funeral hall with a service building was built at the current main entrance.

Benckendorff mausoleum

Konstantin von Benckendorff (1785–1828) had the mausoleum (also) for his wife Natalia, born in 1823, who died in 1823. by Alopeus (1796–1823). He chose Giovanni Salucci as the architect , who built the burial chapel on the Rotenberg from 1820–1824 for Queen Katharina , the second wife of King Wilhelm I , who died in 1819 . Above the portal he had the inscription "ONLY YOU" placed in memory of his wife. After his death in 1828, Count von Benckendorf was also buried in the burial chapel.

The mausoleum contains the double bust of the deceased couple in a classicist niche. They extend their right hands to each other as a sign of marital bond, similar to an ancient Roman gravestone relief, which is often referred to as Cato and Porcia . Johann Heinrich Dannecker modeled the busts in 1812 and 1821 respectively. In 1825 he combined them to form a model of a married couple, which his student Theodor Wagner made in marble in 1828. The sculpture survived the Second World War in a protected location. Until her return to the mausoleum, it was displayed in the Stuttgart City Lapidarium between 1950 and 1959 .

Graves

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# Number of the department in which the grave is located. The location of the departments is shown in the cemetery plan (see above).
P Grave of a P rominenten.
K Grave with K unstwerk or a grave that is remarkable for other reasons.
* Year of birth.
† Year of death.
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Illustration # P K dig * † Artist / object
Grave of Adolf Baumeister 08 K Adolf Baumeister. 1894 1962 NN, relief with vase.
Grave of Georg Friedrich Bihl 02c P K Georg Friedrich Bihl , architect, Bihlplatz is named after him. 1847 1935 NN, classical grave monument with entablature on Doric columns and fencing with railings.
? P Hans-Jürgen Bock , jazz pianist. 1939 2006
Carl Eberspaecher grave 10 K Carl Eberspaecher. 1864 1922 NN, bronze urn and relief with a standing mourners.
Grave of Hugo Gauger 05 K Hugo Gauger, pharmacist. 1870 1943 NN, sculpture of a standing mourner.
Grave of Adolf Haaga 02c P K Adolf Haaga, manufacturer of circular knitting machines, first car owner in Heslach. 1880 1949 NN, classicist, semicircular wall memorial with urn niches, entablature on Doric columns and fencing by railings.
Grave of Adolf Haaga 02c P Adolf Haaga as the first car owner in Heslach. 1880 1949
? P Maria Heitele, high wire artist.
Grave of Conrad Haussmann 11 P K Conrad Haussmann , politician. 1857 1922 NN, semicircular wall memorial with a bronze relief medallion.
Grave of Conrad Haussmann 11 P K Conrad Haussmann , politician. 1857 1922 NN, semicircular wall memorial with a bronze portrait relief.
Grave of Paul Heckel 15th K Paul Heckel. 1888 1922 NN, relief with tree and putto watering a little tree.
Grave Max Wood 08 K Max wood. 1853 1932 NN, relief with two mourners comforting each other.
Grave Karl Kloß 15th P K Karl Kloß , trade unionist and politician. 1847 1908 NN, bronze portrait relief.
Grave Karl Kloß 15th P K Karl Kloß , trade unionist and politician. 1847 1908 NN, bronze portrait relief.
Heslach cemetery, Gottlieb Kussmaul.jpg 08 K Gottlieb Kussmaul. 1842 1907 NN, wall memorial with two windows.
Grave of Adolf Nanz 05 K Adolf Nanz. 1869 1908 NN, bronze reliefs with plant ornaments.
Grave of Maria Adelheid Reinhardt 02b P K Maria Adelheid Reinhardt, murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp . 1923 1943 NN, relief of a standing mourners.
Bernhard Rettenmeyer grave 05 P K Bernhard Rettenmeyer, owner of a brewery from which the Stuttgarter Hofbräu AG emerged . 1839 1896 NN, Gothic pillar monument with arched windows, eyelashes, pinnacles and turrets.
? P Friedrich Ritter, last Heslach mayor.
Grave of Julius Roth 04 K Julius Roth. 1876 1942 NN, sculpture of a standing mourner.
Erwin Steinle's grave 12 K Erwin Steinle. 1914 1983 NN, heraldic relief.
Grave of the Ziegler-Heinkel family ? K The Ziegler-Heinkel family. NN, relief of a standing mourners.

Tree ruin

Tree stump
Heart of the stump

Close to the south-western enclosure of the cemetery you come across the hollow stump of a once mighty tree, which stands here as a monument to itself.

literature

graveyard

  • Georg Friedel: Resignation from a planned stumbling block campaign. A member of a Sinti family speaks out against relocation in Feuerbach - he doesn't want people to step on memorial stones . In: Nord-Rundschau from March 18, 2008, ( online ).
  • Werner Koch; Christopher Koch: Stuttgart cemetery guide. A guide to the graves of well-known personalities. Tübingen 2012, pages 136-138.
  • Mammut-Verlag (publisher and editor): Stuttgart, Der Friedhofswegweiser. Stuttgart 2011, pages 76–77 (available free of charge, including at the information desk in the town hall).
  • Jens Noll: Heslacher Friedhof. There are stories to tell about many graves . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten , ( online ).
  • Andrea Rothfuß: "With her my heaven has disappeared". Discover the Heslach cemetery with Siegfried Bassler . In: Stuttgarter Wochenblatt of March 25, 2010, ( online ).

Benckendorff mausoleum

  • Carla Fandrey: Giovanni Salucci 1769–1845, court architect of King Wilhelm I of Württemberg 1817–1839. Exhibition on the 150th anniversary of the death of the architect Giovanni Salucci from May 16 to July 1, 1995 , Stuttgart 1995, pages 40–41, 133–134.
  • Christian von Holst: Johann Heinrich Dannecker, Part 1: The Sculptor , Stuttgart 1987, pages 401-402.
  • Ludwig Schorn: Tomb of Frau v. Benckendorff, b. Alopeus in Häslach near Stuttgart. (With plan, elevation and section of the monument). In: Morgenblatt for educated estates, art sheet 6.1825, pages 281–282, 2 supplements, [1] .
  • Wilhelm Speidel: Giovanni Salucci. The first court architect of King Wilhelm I of Württemberg. His life and work up to his retirement from court service in 1828. A contribution to the history of classicism in Swabia. Stuttgart 1936, pages 69–72, Figure 46.
  • Walter Weber: The fate of an image in the lapidarium [Benckendorff's grave chapel] . In: Official Gazette of the City of Stuttgart 1953, No. 7, pages 5-6.

Web links

Commons : Heslach Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Department 2 is divided into 2a-c and department 9 into 9a-b.
  2. ↑ #Mammut 2011 .
  3. ↑ clearing territory in the area of today's street tree Reute.
  4. ↑ #Mammut 2011 .
  5. ↑ Friedel 2008 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 45 '37.3 "  N , 9 ° 9' 0.2"  E