Stephansstift cemetery

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The Stephansstift cemetery in Hanover is the burial place of the Stephansstift and belongs to the property of the monastery . The green area is found near the also in the Hanover district Kleefeld landscaped neighborhood cemetery Nackenberg where Anna von Borries Street at the beginning of the Karl-Wiechert-Allee in the triangle with the roads on Anna pond and Haubergstraße .

history

Boulder as a tombstone for the pastor (= pastor's wife) Julie , née Seiler (1862–1913) and pastor Paul Oehlkers (1862–1922)

The cemetery was laid out in 1880 and is primarily used by members of the collegiate community .

The roughly 0,307 hectares large green area was according to a letter of Pastor John Wolff during the bombing of Hannover in the Second World War in June 1944 by a bomb hit and left there an approximately twelve-meter-wide crater, on the other hand by the ten incendiary bombs around smashed the church of the Stephansstift, not even the church windows were broken.

Well-known graves and memorials

  • Memorial for the fallen and missing of the Stephansstift, erected after 1945
  • The deacon Heinrich Georg Friedrich Kuck (* 1903, missing in Stalingrad around 1943 ), trained at the Stephanstift and later active in Döhren, and his wife, the parents of the textile merchant Hero Kuck (* 1932)
  • Anna von Borries , who laid the foundation stone for the Annastift with the money she donated .

See also

Web links

Commons : Stephansstift (Hannover)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theodor Dreimann, Martin Anger: Der Nackenberg-Friedhof , in this .: Chronicle of the town of Kleefeld Hannover , 1st edition, Hannover: Selbstverlag, 1981, p. 132
  2. ↑ a b c Peter Schulze : Friedhöfe. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 193-196; here: p. 195.
  3. ↑ Compare, for example, the general plan with the legend table of the Stephansstift
  4. ↑ Heinrich W. Grosse : Preserving without confessing? The Hannoversche Landeskirche under National Socialism , Hanover: Lutherisches Verlags-Haus, 1996, ISBN 978-3-7859-0733-7 and ISBN 3-7859-0733-8 , p. 324; Preview over google books
  5. ↑ Gerhard Schneider : "... not fallen in vain?" War memorials and cult of the dead of the war in Hanover , special volume of the series Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , ed. from the state capital Hanover, Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung und Verlag, 1991, p. 383; Preview over google books
  6. ↑ Hero Kuck: Missing in Stalingrad. Field post letters - search for traces (= telling is remembering , vol. 24), 2nd, revised edition, ed. from the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, [Hannover, Wilksheide 74]: H. Kuck, 2005, ISBN 978-3-00-015255-9 and ISBN 3-00-015255-5 , p. 167; Preview over google books

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 19.4 "  N , 9 ° 48 ′ 25.9"  E