Sossenheim cemetery

The Sossenheim Cemetery is the cemetery in the Frankfurt-Sossenheim district of Frankfurt am Main .

history

The Frankfurt-Sossenheim cemetery at Siegener Straße 54 was opened in 1890. It has a size of 4.5 hectares and space for 1500 graves.

War cemetery

In the cemetery there is a war cemetery on the left side of the main corridor. Most of the prisoners of war and / or forced laborers from the Soviet Union are buried there. The memorial consists of a large sandstone cross, four individual grave stones labeled in Russian and four collective graves, each with 36 square sandstone slabs. These bear the names, dates of birth and death of the victims (if known).

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  Collective graves

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  cross

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  Single tombstone

Cultural monuments in the cemetery

The supplementary volume by Volker Rödel on monument topography, "The Frankfurt District Cemeteries" names a memorial and seven grave monuments in the cemetery of Sossenheim, which are also under monument protection.

image	designation	location	description	construction time	Data
	crucifix	Sossenheim cemetery location	The crucifix is ​​part of the memorial for the dead of World War II. The red sandstone Hochkreutz with a ceramic Jesus figure dates from around 1950. It stands on a pedestal of a historic cross from 1852	1853
	Bollin family	Sossenheim Cemetery, 19	Kreustele in simplified neo-Gothic forms made of sandstone	1908
	Klees-Dorn family	Sossenheim cemetery, 26–27 location	Cross memorial across the corner made of polished black granite with a figure of Christ as galvanized bronze by Steinmetz J. Neuhäusel	1910
	Kinkel family	Sossenheim Cemetery, 69–70	Neoclassical picture stele made of bush hammered granite depicting the Orpheus motif in bronze relief. Here is Juliane Kinkel (born April 17, 1892 in Sossenheim; † August 17, 1986 ibid) l German resistance fighter and member of the Catholic Workers Movement (KAB) Catholic Christian buried in the resistance.	1915
	Baldes-Noss family	Sossenheim Cemetery, 109–110	Inscription stele made of asymmetrical trapezoidal outline made of polished black granite, accentuated by a relief made of galvano bronze with the head of Christ	1916
	Collective burial site	Sossenheim cemetery location	Collective grave for the pastors of the Catholic parish of St. Michael since 1920. It consists of simple limestone crosses for the pastors. At the head is a crucifix with a modern interpretation of Christ as a relief, 1996 Steinmetz Schranz GmbH	1996
	Brum family	Sossenheim Cemetery, 149–150	Aedicule stele made of polished black granite, engraved writing and decorative friezes, the head of Christ set in the gable as a bronze relief	1922
	Lotz family	Sossenheim Cemetery, 156–157	Three-part stele made of polished red granite with an embedded relief of a crucifixion group made of galvanized bronze	1927

Other graves worth mentioning

image	designation	location	description	construction time	Data
	Lotz family	Frl.0007 single earth grave Jakob Kinkel	Jakob Kinkel (born December 1, 1833; † November 4, 1905) was mayor of Sossenheim from 1892–1902. In 1959 the grave was listed as an honorary grave , but in 1996 it was determined that it was not an honorary grave. It was then classified as worth preserving. From 2001 to 2006 Henriette Kinkel, from 2019 the local history and history association Sossenheim, was the sponsor of the grave.	1905
	Lotz family	A 0333 single earth grave of Wilhelm Richard Karl Runze	Wilhelm Runze (June 4, 1887 - November 6, 1972) was an artist	1972

Web links

Commons : Friedhof Sossenheim  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/2011/frankft-sossenheim_zwangsarbeiter_hess.htm Entry on denkmalprojekt.org
2. ↑ Old tomb shines in new splendor; in: Höchst Kreisblatt of August 20, 2019, p. 26.
3. ↑ Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Sossenheim: Chronik Sossenheim, p. 35.

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 33.3 "  N , 8 ° 33 ′ 59"  E