Friedhofsweg without number (Lang-Göns)

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Gravestone of Anna Plitsch
geb. 1616 d. 1686
Tombstone of Johannes Will
geb. 1639 d. 1709
Fragment, 1696
Sign board

In the Friedhofsweg without number in Lang-Göns , a district of the Langgöns municipality in the district of Gießen in Hesse , two tombstones from 1686 and 1709 and a fragment of a tombstone from 1696 are set into the cemetery wall. For historical reasons, the three stones are a Hessian cultural monument .

The original cemetery in Lang-Göns was in the churchyard around the Jakobuskirche . In a report from 1680 it can be read “the kirchhoff is surrounded by a wall, has not quarreled with anyone, and the community keeps the wall alone under construction”. After the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig in October 1813, Russian Cossacks who pursued the fleeing French brought typhus to Lang-Göns. While 30 adults and 11 children died in the village in 1808, the number of those who died rose to 42 adults and three children in 1813 and to 92 adults in 1814. The available space in the cemetery was exhausted by 1814, so a new burial place was created in the nearby Frühgasse. In 1864, when the last graves were leveled, the tombstones also disappeared. Three of the tombstones were found in the 1920s. One of the stones (Johannes Will) served as a staircase in the garden shed of the parish garden, cut in two. Another artfully crafted stone (Anna Plitsch) has been found as a stair stone. The two gravestones were set in by Pastor Wilhelm Wahl in 1928 during maintenance work on the cemetery wall of the new cemetery on the outer wall to the left of today's old main entrance. Another stone, only preserved as a fragment, was placed on the inside to the left of the entrance.

Since the church records in Lang-Göns only go back to 1684, the years of Will and Plitsch's birth can only be taken from the tombstones. In the church records only the date of the burial is noted, not the date of death. On the lower edge of the Anna Plitsch stone, eight children are depicted, four on the left, four on the right. Before her death, Plitsch had already lost four children. Her burial on August 12 is documented in the church register of 1686. Johannes Will was buried on Palm Sunday 1709. His curriculum vitae is carved on his tombstone: “Here in God rests the honorable Johann Will the Elder was born here on February 12, 1639 and in Ao 1667 he married Anna Elisabetha Velten and lived with her for 43 years conceived 2 daughters so still in life and as long as God wills, is blissfully slaughtered on March 21, Ao 1709 his age 70 years. "

In 2004 the school year 1942/43 donated an information board on the cemetery wall. The former churchyard is now built with the community center around the church and planted with green areas.

literature

  • Otto Berndt: Lang-Göns; Insights into the past , 219 p., Fernwald printing workshop, Langgöns 2013
  • Karlheinz Lang, State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen II. Buseck, Fernwald, Grünberg, Langgöns, Linden, Pohlheim, Rabenau. (Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany), Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2178-7
  • Johann Bayer; Lang-Göns community (ed.): On the history of the Lang-Göns community . Lang-Göns municipality, Langgöns 1976.

Web links

Commons : Friedhofsweg without number (Lang-Göns)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lang: Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen , p. 276
  2. ^ Lang: Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen , p. 277
  3. ^ Bayer: On the history of the Lang-Göns community , 1976, p. 71
  4. ^ Berndt: Lang-Göns; Insights into the past , p. 31
  5. ^ Bayer: On the history of the Lang-Göns community , 1976, p. 72
  6. ^ Berndt: Lang-Göns; Insights into the past , p. 32
  7. ^ Berndt: Lang-Göns; Insights into the past , p. 33
  8. ^ Berndt: Lang-Göns; Insights into the past , p. 34

Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 47 "  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 24.3"  E