Schleswig garrison cemetery

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Gottorf Castle with riding tracks, military hospital and cemetery (1871)
Chapel of the Garrison Cemetery (2011)
Danish tomb (2011)
Spethmann's tombs

The (old) garrison cemetery in Schleswig is a military cemetery from the 19th century. Fallen soldiers from the German-Danish War and the First World War and some notables are buried there .

Gottorf garrison

Rebuilt into barracks, Gottorf Castle was used for military purposes from 1852 to 1948. After the Dragoons came the Hussar Regiment "Kaiser Franz Joseph von Österreich" (Schleswig-Holsteinisches) No. 16 in 1866 . In the same year the formation of the 84th Infantry Regiment was ordered; it was also stationed in Gottorf Castle. When General Gustav von Manstein became head of the regiment in 1868 , it was named the Infantry Regiment "von Manstein" (Schleswigsches) No. 84 . All the troops housed in the castle used the riding arenas and parade grounds in the former castle garden.

In the new province of Schleswig-Holstein , Schleswig became a Prussian garrison .

Hospital and cemetery

A military hospital was built in the northeastern part of the Fürstengarten , on the site of the former orangery and the Amalienburg . A military cemetery was created on the south-eastern bank of the hill. The listed hospital building was used as a state youth home until 1993, and then as a prison school until 2004. Standing empty, it burned out in 2007 due to a fire in the roof structure. The fire ruins have been renovated since August 2010.

The small rectangular cemetery in a depression between Flensburger Strasse in the east and Königsallee in the west was surrounded by a low field stone wall with a picket fence and had old trees. The main entrance with a cast iron gate was on Flensburger Strasse. The side entrance was opposite on Königsallee. A neo-Gothic chapel was built at the main entrance in 1865 .

The Danish soldiers' graves from 1864 are located south of the chapel and have small, rectangular marble tablets. The German soldiers' graves from the Franco-Prussian War are north of the chapel and have cast-iron inscription plates and crosses. Between the graves of soldiers there are isolated graves of citizens, doctors, officers and professors.

Honor and memory

The liberation of Schleswig-Holstein from Denmark in the German-Danish War was due not least to Austro-Hungarian troops. The first outpost battles between Austrian and Danish troops took place (at −19 ° C) on February 3, 1864 near Ober-Selk , Jagel , Königshügel and Wedelspang . The 82 Austrians who fell in the six hours were buried in the garrison cemetery. In their honor, a memorial was erected on the King's Hill in autumn 1864.

When hunters from Styria and Hungarian troops pursued the fleeing Danes, three days later, on February 6, 1864, the (more famous) battle at Oeversee took place . The fallen were buried there and the 700 seriously wounded were taken to the Schleswig fortress hospital. Most of those who died here were also buried in the Neuwerker military cemetery (the garrison cemetery).

Art historical significance

The First World War brought new importance to the cemetery. The Altona painter and sculptor Karl Spethmann (1888–1958) served in Infantry Regiment No. 84. He was commissioned by the military authorities and the Schleswig city ​​administration (Mayor Dr. Oscar Behrens) to create a wooden grave for every comrade who died in the Schleswig hospital . In the first year of the war, the city gave him studio space in the girls' school at Domziegelhof. Far removed from the warrior path and of great artistic value, no two tombs were alike.

New garrison cemetery

The new garrison cemetery from 1890 is located on Husumer Strasse . Most of the soldiers from the two world wars who died in Schleswig hospitals (including Paulihof) are buried there. Many forced laborers and some victims of Nazi military justice also found their final resting place here. The justice victims were executed at the Neuwerk shooting range. It lies apart in a strip of forest created there after 1945 and has not yet been explored. The Bundeswehr also buried soldiers in the New Garrison Cemetery, including a crashed Starfighter pilot.

See also

literature

  • Deert Lafrenz (ed.) With V. Darius, D. Ellger, C. Radtke: Churches, monasteries and hospitals , in: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Stadt Schleswig , third volume. In: Hartwig Besler (ed.): Die Kunstdenkmäler des Landes Schleswig-Holstein , Vol. 11. Munich, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3422005625
  • Heinrich Philippsen: Pictures of Time and Memories , in: Alt-Schleswig , chap. II (cultural-historical part). Schleswig 1924
  • Ernst Schlee: Karl Spethmann's monuments on Schleswig soldiers' graves . Contributions to Schleswiger Stadtgeschichte 23 (1978), pp. 137–146

Web links

Commons : Garrisonfriedhof Schleswig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Schleihalle (S. Hansen) ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.alte-schleihalle.de
  2. ↑ see Leonhard Zander
  3. ↑ The King's Hill was called "Königsberg" by the Austrians
  4. ↑ Königshügel Memorial
  5. ^ AO Jöhnk, Schleswig

Coordinates: 54 ° 31 '13.7 "  N , 9 ° 32' 36.3"  E