Niederrad cemetery

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Cemetery chapel

The Niederrad cemetery has been the cemetery of today's district of Frankfurt am Main , Niederrad , since 1881 . It is located at Hahnstrasse 14.

history

The residents of the village of Niederrad originally buried their dead in the churchyard . In addition to the Paul Gerhard Church , two tombstones have been preserved.

Gravestone at the Paul-Gerhard-Church
Gravestone at the Paul-Gerhard-Church

In 1861 the first modern cemetery was set up at today's Haardtwaldplatz. Today the area is a children's playground. The wall and four gravestones from the years 1815, 1851 and 1871 on the wall of the old cemetery have been preserved and are under monument protection .

Wall of the old cemetery
Gravestone on the wall of the old cemetery
Gravestone on the wall of the old cemetery
Gravestone on the wall of the old cemetery
Gravestone on the wall of the old cemetery

As this cemetery became too small, today's cemetery was created in 1881 on Hahnstrasse, across the railway line. It is 4.6 hectares and includes 4,100 graves.

The neo-Romanesque cemetery chapel from 1901 on an L-shaped floor plan in the middle of the new cemetery has 45 seats and is a listed building .

Two memorials in the cemetery commemorate those who died in the war.

Fallen memorial of the gymnastics society
Fallen memorial of the prisoner of war association

List of listed graves in the cemetery

image	Won	Name (s)	year	Stonemason	description
	AdM 7-9	Wissenbach-Ostmann	1901	0	Neoclassical aedicule made of black granite, framed by wide steles.
	AdM 22-23	Scribe	1892	0	Simple wall plate in the form of an open book.
	AdM 54-56	Schroth	1899	0	Three-part wall stele with a central sandstone aedicula. The inset tablets are made of polished black granite. In the arched gable there is a relief of an angel.
	AdM 64-65	Winter stone	1900	0	Black marble cross. The base is made of black granite.
	AdM 72-74	Weidemann	1901	0	Neo-Renaissance aedicule made from polished black granite. In the tympanum of the pediment there is a relief of an angel.
0	A 7	Kiel	1925	F. Hofmeister	Aedicular stele made of polished black syenite. In the arched field there is a relief of a weeping willow.
	A 8	Burkard	1925	Air and rod	Polished black Swedish granite cross. On it a Christ made in zinc casting.
	A 30-31	Pfeiffer	1932	EC clapping	Round-arched stele made of bush hammered diabase. Bronze relief of two angels making music under a tree of life (this relief is missing on the photo from 2016).
	A 90	Kiel-Moog	1929	F. Hofmeister	Three-part stele made of cut diabase with a central crucifix carved from the stone.
0	A 121	Coin	1928	Heinrich Stang	Simple shell stele with carved writing.
	A 144	Bastian	1930	F. Hofmeister	Dark diabase stele framed by two columns made of the same material. In the center a relief of a grieving family made of galvanized bronze.
0	A 48 UG	Zwicky	1928	Heinrich Stang	Urn stele made of polished syenite.
0	A 49 UG	Göttenauer	1928	Heinrich Stang	Urn stele made of polished syenite.
	B adM 143-145	Münch	1928	F. Hofmeister	Elaborate wall memorial made of black granite. The central figure of a mourner is dominant.
	B adM 157-159	Marx	1906	F. Hofmeister	Three-part wall stele made of bush hammered black granite. The central round stele made of polished black granite is striking.
	B adM 163-165	Merkel	1905	0	Neoclassical marble aedicula, a portrait relief in the niche.
	B adM 174-176	fear	1886, 1905 (crosses), 1897 (stele)	F. Hofmeister (crosses), Gebr. Wagner (stele)	Two crosses and a stele in front of a square wall.
	B 13	Belz	1907	Belz	Wrought iron cross (signed Belz) on a hammered granite base.
	B 16-17	Kröber	1908	Nau & Mahr	Polished black granite cross.
	B 19-20	Courtship	1908	F. Hofmeister	Truncated column adorned with a rose branch.
	B 21-22	Doderer	1909	Nau & Mahr	Obelisk on a cubic base made of black polished granite
	B 33-34	cutter	1911	Nau & Mahr	Three-part stele made of polished granite. The middle is emphasized by a flower bowl protruding from the line
	B 24-25	Schud-Gross	1910	Nau & Mahr	Aedicula made of polished and bush hammered granite. In the pediment there is a branch ornament.
	B 48-49	Hofmann-Ries	1911	F. Hofmeister	Neo-Renaissance aedicule made from polished black granite. There is a bronze wreath in the pediment.
	B 251-252	Burkard	1967	Emil Hub (sculptor)	Full sculpture of a mourning woman modeled on ancient Athena statues.
	C 1	Münch-Metzler	1931	Heinrich Stang	Stylized aedicule with freely positioned writing stele made of polished black Swedish granite
	C 2	Woodcutter	1930	0	Stylized aedicule with freely positioned writing stele made of polished red granite
	C 4	Woodcutter	1927	0	Neoclassical grave monument as a temple front made of artificial limestone
	C 13a-14a	Rapps-Kilian	1925	Air & rod	Three-part granite wall memorial. In the arched area an engraved vase with blossom branches, on the edge of the side panels foliage friezes
	C 94	Baetz	1918	F. Hofmeister	Column stele made of polished black granite and a sculpture of a wreath-lifting putto made of marble
0	C 136-137	Arnold	1913	Gebr. Wagner	Stele in the form of a grown rock made of granite, next to it a life-size sculpture of a mourning woman by the sculptor H. Pohlmann.
	C 143-144	Niedermann-Müller-Hauser	1913	EC clapping	Neoclassical aedicule made of gray granite with a bronze wreath in the pediment.
	C 207-208	May	1916	F. Hofmeister	Stele with an urn made of polished red granite on it.
	C 34-36	Bräuninger	1922	F. Hofmeister	Neoclassical three-part stele. Above the typeface is a relief of a grieving angel made of galvanized bronze.
0	D 37-39	Well	1922	0	Wall stele made of bush hammered granite in reduced forms of an aedicule
	D 70-73	Catholic parish	1960	M. Schmidt Ww, Schwanheim	Pastor Walter Gelhard's grave is a cross made of shell limestone with an outlined Christ engraved and blessing a mourner.
	D 78-79	Biebel-Barth	1921	0	Two marble crosses on red sandstone bases
	D 127	Resting place of the poor servants of Jesus Christ 1890–1906	0	0	Granite cross stele with the body of Christ made of electroplated bronze.