Praunheim cemetery

Praunheim cemetery, mourning hall

The cemetery Praunheim is since 1840 the cemetery of today's district of Frankfurt am Main , Praunheim . It is located at Haingrabenstrasse 32. The first graves were the "exposed".

The former cemetery was around the church until 1835 .

It covers an area of ​​3.6 hectares . There are 2,600 graves on it. The mourning hall has 30 seats.

cenotaph

The memorial for the war dead on the cemetery consists of a massive stone cross for the dead of the Second World War and a group of three memorial plaques. The first commemorates the dead of the First World War.

The former cemetery and with a list of names of those who died in the First World War are located outside the Church of the Resurrection .

Graves

A number of tombs are under monument protection.

image	Won	Name (s)	year	Stonemason	description
	A / 1	Waiter	1943	Hölters	Simple pillar made of polished granite with a stylized flower relief in a coat of arms-shaped mirror.
	A / 2	Walther	1965	Heinrich Knorr	Bulged stele made of polished granite with an engraved cross
	A / 3	Kruger	1944	0	Polished red granite pillar stele with engraved Christ's monogram
	A / 4	Griesinger	1944	0	Pillar stele made of red sandstone with cross relief.
	A / 5	Hunter	1944	0	Polished gray granite pillar stele with raised lettering and a cross flanked by the Greek letters Alpha and Omega.
	A / 28	Courage	1951	L + M Ludascher	Wall stele made of cut red sandstone. Above the inscription in relief is a bas-relief of a pilgrim in front of a cross.
	A / 287	Sattler-Schad	1946	0	Unadorned pillar stele made of polished granite with engraved writing.
	A / 289	Schiller	1946	0	Pillar stele with round arched ends made of polished red granite. The bronze inscription is raised, above it a flower bowl in relief.
	A / 290	Cell kens	1947	0	Pillar stele with a round-arched end made of cut travertine with engraved writing and cross.
	Miss / 56	Hubel	1935	0	Stele in the expressionistically translated form of an aedicula with an inscribed cross.
	Miss / 192	Rühl	1844	0	Neo-Gothic aedicule with rich tracery decoration made of red sandstone.

Web links

Commons : Friedhof Praunheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Cemetery on the website of the City of Frankfurt accessed on Feb. 24, 2020

literature

• Volker Rödel: Monument topography: The Frankfurt district cemeteries . ISBN 978-3-921606-61-2 , as of 2006, pp. 154–156
• City of Frankfurt am Main: The cemetery guide . March 2012

Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 5.2 "  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 14.1"  E