Tomb of Heinrich Bernhard Röhr

The maple that has grown together with the fence is protected as a natural monument

Detail view with the mosses ...

... and lichen

The tomb of Heinrich Bernhard Röhrs in the garden cemetery in Hanover is a listed tomb of Heinrich Bernhard Röhrs, who died in 1835 .

particularities

Natural monument

The grave, which as a building and historically valuable cultural monument is part of the garden cemetery, which is listed in its entirety, also awaits with a special spectacle : Over time, a maple tree , initially growing horizontally , has joined the enclosure surrounding the grave . Today, with has moss and lichen -covered maple trunk part fully integrated part of the metal grave-fencing in his tribe before settling on one of the sandstone - pillars then stretched straight up. In contrast to the - former - birch near the Open Grave , the maple has not yet been felled: it is separately protected as a natural monument.

Relief plate

Portrait of Heinrich Bernhard Röhr

The relief - portrait of Heinrich Bernhard Röhr shows the artist's signature of the sculptor Bandel on the front section .

literature

• Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfennig: Garden Church and Garden Cemetery , in: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 1, [Bd.] 10.1 , ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 65f., As well as Annex Mitte , in: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 (NDSchG) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 3f.
• City of Hanover: The Garden Cemetery , free brochure from the Hanover Green Space Office in cooperation with the Hanover Press Office, December 1997, p. 22 ( online , pdf)

Web links

Commons : Tomb of Heinrich Bernhard Röhrs  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfennig: garden church and garden cemetery (see literature)
2. ^ Bernhard Friedrich Voigt: Heinrich Bernhard Röhrs , in: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , thirteenth year, first part, print and publisher: Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Weimar 1837, p. 421, online via Google books
3. ↑ see the collection of images, videos and audio files at Commons (section Weblinks)
4. ↑ Karin Vera Schmidt: Warmbüchenviertel: Old birch on the "open" grave is dead / The city has cut down the famous tree in the garden cemetery in Warmbüchenviertel. , online at Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung on January 28, 2010, last accessed on March 28, 2012
5. ↑ NN : The graves of the garden cemetery ( memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Evangelical Lutheran Garden Church of St. Mary

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 11.2 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 51.1"  E