Trenkebergstrasse cemetery
The Trenkebergstrasse cemetery is located in the Meschenich district of Cologne between Trenkebergstrasse, Südstrasse and Pfarrer-Heinrich-Fuchs-Strasse. The mourning hall offers 27 m² of space for around 15 people.
The cemetery is 4,600 m² and offers space for 790 graves. In addition, there are 16 graves in this cemetery for German victims of the Second World War .
The cemetery is listed under the number 214 in the list of architectural monuments of the city of Cologne.
history
The cemetery was opened shortly after the First World War . The local council of the then mayor's office in Rondorf acquired the property on Trenkebergstraße - at that time Meschenicher Straße - from the widows Rolsdorf and Leikert. The war memorial, which is centrally located between the entrance and the mourning hall, was built around 1920. The mourning hall was built in the 1950s. In the 1960s the cemetery was expanded to include the southern part. On the side walls of the mourning hall and along the cemetery wall there are twelve stone crosses made of trachyte from the former St. Blasien cemetery, which date from the 16th to 18th centuries.
Buildings
The 95 cm high stone cross from 1540 is one of the oldest from the Rodenkirchen area. It is unnamed, but shows the outline of a heraldic shield with a heart leaf relief. On the cemetery wall there is also the well-preserved cross, with a skull over crossed bones, of the "Endorfer Halffen" Mathias, who died around 1730. The grave cross of Gertrud Bley, who died in 1732, is also well preserved. It is a variant of the "three-saddle cross" and shows the painful Mother of God.
The memorial for those who died in the world wars is on the main path. It is a high cross from 1920. The heavy cross is supported by two basalt blocks that taper towards the top. The memory of the honorary citizen of Rodenkirchen Everhard Stolz (1888 to 1975) is also maintained on this cross.
In the immediate vicinity of the memorial on field 1 is the grave of the former Meschenich pastor Heinrich Fuchs (1931–1964). In the same field is the grave of Karl Kirchmann (died 1943), which is typically made of light Belgian granite for the time.
Along the main path there are numerous tombs with free-standing cross stelae, as they were popular in the second half of the 19th century. Mention should be made here of Franz Moos, who died around 1920, and the Klemmer and Hufschlag families (around 1915).
On field 8, along the main path, there are some impressive tombs from the first half of the 20th century. The grave of the Leikert family from Alt-Engeldorfer Hof (first burial in 1921) is made entirely of shell limestone and is the only one in the Rodenkirchen area in neoclassical style. It is signed by J. Bondian, Brühl in Cologne, and consists of two fluted columns with Ionic capitals, which carry a triangular gable with a cross inscribed in the middle.
In the immediate vicinity on the other side of the main path is the Langel grave (1830 to 1878). Here stands the figure of the risen Christ on a black granite plinth, who deals with the message: “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me will live even if he dies ”(Joh. 11, 25) applies to the viewer. The bronze cast from 1905 is signed L. Piedboeuf.
Right next to it is the wall grave of the Assenmacher family, first occupied in 1926 with Gerhard Assenmacher. A cross with the Crucified, flanked by wavy stone models of angular form, forms the center of the wall grave made of artificial stone. The tomb, which belongs to reform art, is marked F. u. J. Peters, Cologne Süd-Westfriedhof signed. Under the footplate of the cross there is the saying “My Jesus Mercy”.
The grave of the Kelter family (Margarethe Latz, died 1954) is in the same corridor. It is an arched wall grave with a bronze relief from around 1920. This presumably shows the awakening of the daughter of Jairus (Mk 5:41: “He took the child by the hand and said to him: Talita kum !, which means in translation: Girl, I tell you, get up!”).
Web links
- Trenkebergstrasse / Meschenich cemetery on stadt-koeln.de
- Cemetery map from stadt-koeln.de (PDF; 92 kB)
- Address on stadt-koeln.de
- weltkriegsopfer.de
Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 29.5 " N , 6 ° 55 ′ 50.8" E