Meersburg cemetery
The Meersburg Cemetery is a cemetery north of the Upper Town of Meersburg .
The cemetery is laid out like a park and was opened in 1682 next to the Chapel of the Assumption of Mary, which had been in existence since 1511 (later cemetery chapel). Well-known personalities rest on him, including Annette von Droste-Hülshoff . It is run as a municipal cemetery.
location
The cemetery is bordered by Mesmerstrasse, Sonnenhalde and Kronenstrasse. The main entrance is on Kronenstrasse. Side entrances are the northern entrance at the cemetery chapel and the southern entrance closer to town at Sonnhalde.
Cemetery wall and cemetery chapel
On the outer cemetery wall along Mesmerstrasse there are copies of the seven cross-way plaques donated by Hans Müller and Ursula Batin in 1657. The cemetery chapel (Liebfrauenkapelle or Beatae Mariae Virginis chapel) is located on the corner of Mesmerstrasse and Kronenstrasse. The wall paintings in honor of the Assumption of Mary are late Gothic. The chapel was mentioned around 1500 and was originally set up as an infirmary chapel at the gates of the city for those suffering from the plague and infirmaries. It became a cemetery chapel in 1682 after the cemetery was moved from the parish church in front of the city gates.
Cemetery structure
The cemetery was expanded in 1856, 1891 and 1956. The old part of the cemetery was planted in a simplified form according to a planting plan by Franz Sales Meyer in 1911/1912. . There are historical tombstones on the western wall. The funeral hall has been located in the cemetery area at the northern main entrance since 1958. The cemetery chapel is at the northwest side entrance. The grave of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff is in the enclosed area in the cemetery area at the height of the cemetery chapel, next to that of her friend Amalie Hassenpflug.
A striking sign in the old center of the cemetery is the high cross with Jesus crucified. At this high cross is the grave of the magnetizer Franz Anton Mesmer, to the east of it that of the philosopher Fritz Mautner with Harriet Straub and the Lake Constance painter Hans Dieter. The graves of the old Meersburg families are in the area between the cemetery chapel and the southern entrance to the Sonnenhalde.
Cemetery use
The character of the cemetery as a park cemetery and cemetery with graves from Meersburg's history changes in appearance and structure due to the tendency towards urn graves and the release of grave sites.
Funeral hall
In the funeral hall of the cemetery, built in 1967, there has been a three-meter-high sculpture by Peter Recker on the side in the form of a bronze sail . The fallen and missing Meersburg citizens of the Second World War are listed by name on the sail area. The names stand next to and on top of one another without any great spacing and can only be deciphered on closer inspection in favor of the overall effect as a memorial and work of art. On the back there are three mourning women with a peace branch. 76 small squares around the women symbolize the countries in which German soldiers died.
The dead in the wars of 1870–1871, 1914–1918 and 1939–1945 are commemorated with an inscription on the left inside the funeral hall, and the living are admonished.
The grave area next to the funeral hall without further name markings on the graves is used for the burial of the homeless and poor. It is characterized by a man-high boulder.
Graves of famous people
Writers and their families
- Joseph von Laßberg (1770–1855), forester, Germanist and writer
- Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848), writer, poet and composer
- Amalie Hassenpflug (1800–1871), writer, friend of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
- Carl Caspar von Droste zu Hülshoff (1843–1922), officer, entrepreneur and landowner
- Fritz Mauthner (1849–1923), philosopher and writer
- Harriet Straub (1872–1945), doctor and writer
- Helene Freifrau von Bothmer (1908–1996), museum curator and model
Artist
- Karl Raichle (1889–1965), tin smith and metal artist
- Edith Müller-Ortloff (1911–1994), tapestry artist
- Arthur Binder (1919–1976), actor and radio play speaker
painter
- Hans Dieter (1881–1968), landscape painter, drawing teacher and poet
doctors
- Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815), doctor, healer and founder of the theory of animal magnetism
Lawyers
- Karl Heinrich Friauf (1931–2016), constitutional lawyer
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ cemetery with graves in honor meersburg.de
- ^ Diethard Nowak: Small monuments in Meersburger Landen. Meersburg, second expanded edition 2014. pp. 22–29, section: Way of the Cross at the cemetery wall in Mesmerstrasse.
- ^ Cemetery and cemetery chapel. Today's cemetery chapel, which actually wasn't, In: Museumsverein Meersburg (Ed.): Meersburger traces. Verlag Robert Gessler, Friedrichshafen, 2007. ISBN 978-3-86136-124-4 , pp. 94-100.
- ^ Cemetery and cemetery chapel. Today's cemetery chapel, which actually wasn't. In: Museumsverein Meersburg (ed.): Meersburg traces. Verlag Robert Gessler, Friedrichshafen, 2007. ISBN 978-3-86136-124-4 , pp. 94-100.
- ↑ Sylvia Floetemeyer: Cemetery: concern for the future . In: Südkurier of August 4, 2011.
- ^ Diethard Nowak: Small monuments in Meersburger Landen. Meersburg, second expanded edition 2014. pp. 72–74, section: Memorial for those killed and missing in World War II.
- ↑ Museumsverein Meersburg (ed.): Meersburg under the swastika 1933–1945 . Robert Gessler, Friedrichshafen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86136-164-0 , pp. 419-421.
- ↑ Fallen memorials: Meersburg, funeral hall of the cemetery
Coordinates: 47 ° 41 ′ 44.1 ″ N , 9 ° 16 ′ 40.2 ″ E