Cemetery on hello

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View from the main entrance

The cemetery on Hallo is located in the Stoppenberg district of Essen . It covers almost the entire natural elevation called hello .

history

Memorial stone for the miners of the 1941 mine disaster on Zollverein 6/9

The grave of Carl Meyer , the former mayor (1891-1924) of the former mayor's office of Altenessen / Stoppenberg, is located in the cemetery, which was opened in 1918 .

There is also the memorial stone for the 29 miners who died on February 26, 1941 in a firedamp explosion on the Zollverein 6/9 mine , including French forced laborers. The inscription reads:

"Brother your hand - here my - our comrades - who died on February 26, 1941 - at Zollverein 6/9"

The simple stone shows miners shaking hands. It was the biggest mining accident at the nearby Zollverein colliery.

Since 1988 the stone of the republic has been located at the south exit of the cemetery . Originally set up in 1929 by the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold to commemorate three well-known politicians of the Weimar Republic , it was removed by the National Socialists shortly after they came to power . The boulder shows the heads of Finance Minister Matthias Erzberger ( German Center Party ) who was murdered in 1921, Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau ( DDP ) who was murdered in 1924 and the first Reich President Friedrich Ebert ( SPD ) who died in 1925 .

Muslim grave fields

In 1972, a Muslim grave field facing Mecca was laid out in the cemetery on Hallo , which today offers a final resting place for more than 1,400 deceased. In mid-2010 another Muslim grave field was added in the upper cemetery area, on which thirty new graves had been created by January 2012.

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The cemetery on Hallo with an area of ​​17.4 hectares offers space for 17,412 graves (status: 2010). In 2010 there were 1077 burials. In addition to row, election and urn graves, there are also meadow graves.

Adjacent to the Hallo cemetery are the cemetery of honor for those killed in the Second World War , the Hallopark , a model airplane field and a pet cemetery. The source of the Schwarzbach lies between the Hallopark and the cemetery .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from the Essen History Initiatives Working Group in the FORUM Geschichtskultur an Ruhr und Emscher e. V., page 9 (PDF; 2.3 MB); last accessed on December 18, 2014
  2. ^ City of Essen, cemeteries in Essen ; last viewed on December 18, 2014
  3. ^ DerWesten.de: Muslims from all over NRW bury relatives in Essen; January 23, 2012 ; last accessed on December 18, 2014
  4. ^ City of Essen, Am Hallo cemetery ; last accessed on December 18, 2014

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 45 "  N , 7 ° 3 ′ 12.3"  E