Waldhusen cemetery

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The Waldhusen Cemetery is a municipal cemetery and is located in the Lübeck-Kücknitz district on the edge of the Waldhusener Forest . Today it is 22 hectares with about 8,900 grave sites. War graves of soldiers and war graves from the Pöppendorf camp have been preserved from the time after the Second World War .

Emergence

Plan of the original cemetery complex in 1909 by Erwin Barth

In 1909, the court owner Wilhelm Eggers from Dänischburg donated a former gravel pit to the Lübeck rural community of Kücknitz (Kücknitz, Siems, Herrenwyk) . Erwin Barth planned a forest cemetery for this site. The cemetery, initially only 1.1 hectares in size, was inaugurated in 1909 as the Kücknitz cemetery . It was taken over by the city of Lübeck in 1929. The cemetery was then expanded from 1945 to 1946. Another enlargement was made in 1951 up to the tracks of the Lübeck – Lübeck-Travemünde Strand railway line . In 1959, the cemetery was expanded to include the dissolved Stadtgut Kücknitz, which lay across the railway tracks. Chapel 1 with a mortuary in the old part of the cemetery was consecrated in 1950. Chapel 2 with morgue for the area beyond the railway line was inaugurated in 1963.

Gravesites

Different graves

In the cemetery there are burial sites for coffins, urn graves and several variants of tombs without special grave maintenance by relatives. A separate area is provided for graves for Muslims.

War graves

Waldhusen cemetery in Lübeck-Kücknitz: wooden high cross for the war dead.
Waldhusen cemetery in Lübeck-Kücknitz: burial ground of war graves in 1945, 1946.

There are 172 graves of soldiers and refugees from World War II in the old part of the cemetery. The wooden grave crosses were replaced by stone grave crosses in 1985. The names of the refugees who died here in the Pöppendorf camp were recorded. The wooden high cross is a place of remembrance on the day of national mourning .

literature

Web links

Commons : Waldhusen Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ war cemeteries in Lübeck in volksbund.de
  2. ^ Cemetery Waldhusen In: Hanseatic City of Lübeck: Der Friedhofswegweiser. Mammut-Verlag, Leipzig, 2nd edition March 2013, pp. 42–47.
  3. ^ Cemetery Waldhusen In: Hanseatic City of Lübeck: Der Friedhofswegweiser. Mammut-Verlag, Leipzig, 2nd edition March 2013, pp. 42–47.
  4. ↑ war cemeteries in Lübeck in volksbund.de
  5. ↑ Deceased of the Pöppendorf camp at denkmalprojekt.org

Coordinates: 53 ° 54 ′ 52.7 "  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 51.8"  E