Cemetery on Caspar-Baur-Strasse

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The cemetery on Caspar-Baur-Strasse is a municipal cemetery in the north of downtown Wesel on the Lower Rhine.

location

The cemetery on Caspar-Baur-Strasse, also known for short as Caspar-Baur-Friedhof, is located on the eponymous street, which was named after the mayor of Wesel, Caspar Baur, who was in office from 1881 to 1891. This road runs past the cemetery grounds in the west, and in the south and south-east it is bordered by a forest area of ​​the Weseler Glacis . Historically, this forest area was the glacis that surrounded the Wesel fortress , which existed until around 1890 . In the 19th century, the cemetery was therefore outside the city, and since then it has been part of the northernmost inner city district. The Trappstraße running north of the cemetery marks the demarcation from the urban district of Feldmark .

History and monuments

The cemetery was created in 1805 and was then outside the urban area. Of the Ghent seminarians who were brought to Wesel from the Ghent seminary under Napoleonic rule and held captive there, 43 men died, 35 of whom were buried in the cemetery. French soldiers who died in Wesel during the war of 1870/1871 are commemorated with a memorial as well as Soviet prisoners of war who perished in the city during the time of National Socialism. There is a memorial stone for all those who died in Wesel in the wars from 1866 to 1945 and a memorial plaque for the Jewish soldiers who died in the First World War. Finally, there is a memorial for the victims of the bombing war and Lipperheystraße, south of the cemetery, is a memorial for the victims of the war and the tyranny. The remaining monuments are located in different areas of the cemetery. There is a separate military cemetery and a cemetery for people killed in bomb attacks.

On January 28, 1946, the Geusenbecher were recovered from the cemetery as important objects in the city's history. The city of Wesel received it as a gift from religious refugees from Flanders and Wallonia in the 16th century. The cups were therefore a symbol of Vesalia hospitalis , the hospitable Wesel. They were buried in September 1944 in order to survive the last phase of the war unscathed. After they were recovered, they were initially stored in the safe of the Sparkasse Duisburg until 1950 . Today they are exhibited in the City Museum in the Wesel City Library building on the edge of the Kornmarkt .

Historically, the area of ​​the cemetery was divided between the Protestant and Catholic parishes. In 2004 (Protestant parish) and 2012 (Catholic parish), the churches transferred their shares to the city of Wesel, creating a purely communal cemetery. In 2014 it was decided to build a significantly enlarged funeral hall in the cemetery.

Personalities

  • Moritz Schneemann (1836–1930), long-time city councilor and honorary citizen of Wesel
  • Joseph Fluthgraf (1850–1926), first Lord Mayor of Wesel
  • August Oppenberg (1896–1971), artist
  • Eva Brinkman (1896–1977), artist
  • Kurt Kracker (1916–1966), Mayor of Wesels
  • Wilhelm Schneider (1926–2007), mayor and honorary citizen of Wesel

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Streets in Wesel - Letter C (wesel.de)
  2. ↑ Geoportal Wesel
  3. ↑ a b A piece of Wesel history (derwesten.de)
  4. ↑ a b monuments (wesel.de)
  5. ↑ a b Municipal cemetery Caspar-Baur-Strasse (asg-wesel.de)
  6. ↑ Wesel: 70 years ago: Geusenbecher salvaged (rp-online.de)
  7. ↑ Wesel - Geusenbecher (routemigration.angekommen.com)
  8. ^ Wesel: New funeral hall at the Caspar-Baur-Straße cemetery (rp-online.de)

Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 48.8 "  N , 6 ° 37 ′ 26.1"  E