Salbke cemetery

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Main path through the cemetery

The Salbke cemetery is the communal cemetery in the Salbke district of Magdeburg .

location

The cemetery extends over 2.25 hectares and is located directly west of the Magdeburg – Leipzig railway line south of Friedhofsstrasse and north of Blumenberger Strasse. On the west side, the cemetery borders on Quenstedter Straße.

history

Originally the cemetery of the Salbke parish was in the vicinity of the Sankt Gertraud church . Probably around 1905, in view of the strong increase in population in the course of industrialization, a cemetery was established west of the original location. It originally extended on the south side of Friedhofstrasse, east and west of the railway line. Today the cemetery is located exclusively to the west of the railway line and runs parallel to it. The later listed cemetery chapel Salbke was built , which was expanded in the 1920s. In the area east of the railway line there were graves of prisoners of war from the time of the First World War . Most of the deceased prisoners came from France and Belgium and worked for Buckau-Wolf and Krupp-Gruson .

In the cemetery, east of the cemetery chapel, there was a communal grave complex laid out in 1931 for victims of a severe explosion on April 28, 1931 on the premises of Fahlberg-List . Nine of the ten employees who died were young women. Eight victims were buried in the Salbker cemetery. The area was about 30 m² and was surrounded by a small hedge. The graves were each provided with a stone made of dark gray granite on which the names and dates were written in gold. Fahlberg-List took over the costs. After funeral services in the Protestant Sankt-Gertrauden and the Catholic Sankt-Johann-Baptist-Kirche , a long funeral procession moved to the Salbker cemetery. Pastor Adolf Strewe held the funeral service in the Protestant church . The pastors of the neighboring parishes from Westerhüsen and Fermersleben , probably Albert Hosenthien and Otto Siebert, also expressed their condolences to the parish there. Pastor Latta held the funeral service in the Catholic Church . At the funeral, after the clergy, the director Rasmussen and the works council Schalk spoke for Fahlberg-List . Upper Government Councilor Rintelen spoke on behalf of the Upper President. On the part of the city of Magdeburg, City Councilor Klewitz spoke. This grave complex was leveled in the 1990s.

The cemetery area east of the railway line was abandoned during the GDR era . The Salbker School's sports hall was built at this point . The sports hall was inaugurated on June 1, 1990, Children's Day. The French and Belgian prisoners of war buried there from the time of the First World War had previously been reburied.

Despite protests from the Salbker population, the cemetery chapel was demolished in 2009 because it was in disrepair. A new building has been erected since 2010. The opening took place on November 9, 2011.

In the cemetery there are row graves and optional graves for burials and urn burials.

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Krenzke, Magdeburg Cemeteries and Burial Places , State Capital Magdeburg 1998, page 132 f.
  • The cemetery guide, MAMMUT-Verlag Leipzig 2008, page 50 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter-Ernst Schmidt, The "Field of the United Nations" on the Westerhüser Friedhof , Magdeburg, June 2011
  2. ^ Day of Mourning in Southeast in Magdeburger General-Anzeiger from May 3, 1931
  3. ^ The last course of the Southeast victims in the Volksstimme of May 3, 1931.
  4. ^ Calendar Magdeburg SüdOst 2014, Fermersleben, Salbke, Westerhüsen , sheet November 2014; Magdeburg 2013

Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 24.6 ″  N , 11 ° 39 ′ 56.4 ″  E