Volksdorf cemetery
The Volksdorf municipal cemetery (sometimes also the Volksdorf forest cemetery ) is a burial site in the Volksdorf district of Hamburg . It was administered by the Wandsbek district office from 1959 to 2012 and has been part of the municipal company "Hamburger Friedhöfe - public law institution" since the beginning of 2013, which also operates the Ohlsdorf and Öjendorf cemeteries .
history
The city of Hamburg began in 1950 a 14 ha large pine forest , they 1936. Hans Freiherr von Ohlendorff had bought to set up for a cemetery. First of all, an access road and a fence for 7 hectares of the site was built. After a year of construction, the 70-seat cemetery chapel was completed on the eastern edge in 1958; the first burial took place in January 1959.
The existing trees were largely preserved. The path network consists of an irregular grid with a circumferential path. At the chapel there is a small memorial for the fallen of the two world wars, in which it was deliberately not put up a list of individual names. The anonymous grave fields are designed as independent planted areas and receive a modern sculpture as decoration as soon as they are completely occupied.
Today the Volksdorf cemetery comprises around 14,900 graves on a total area of around 17 hectares.
Graves of famous people
- Bernhard Dexel , architect and visual artist
- Ascan Klée Gobert , politician and writer (discontinued)
- Elsa Haensgen-Dingkuhn , painter and graphic artist
- Marie-Louise Henry , theologian
- Ernst von Klipstein , actor
- Lotte Koch , actress
- Erika Krauss , press photographer
- Lonzo (violinist) , musician, "Devil's violinist from Eppendorf"
- Els Oksaar , linguist
- Hans Paetsch , actor and director
- Valeska Röver , painter and art school director (discontinued)
- Ernst Rowohlt , publisher
- Maria Rowohlt , actress, mother of Harry Rowohlt
- Hans Martin Ruwoldt , sculptor (discontinued)
- Jens Scheiblich , actor
- Norbert Schmid , police chief who was shot by the RAF while on duty
- Ingo Schwichtenberg , drummer Helloween
- Helmut Walter Klein , artist and graphic designer
literature
- Barbara Leisner, Norbert Fischer : The cemetery guide . Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-7672-1215-3 , p. 123 f .
Web links
- Description on the website of the Hamburger Friedhöfe AöR
- Description on genealogy.net
swell
- ↑ FiZ info sheet 5: Volksdorf cemetery ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 3.65 MB)
Remarks
Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′ 2.1 ″ N , 10 ° 9 ′ 30.8 ″ E