Grove wood cemetery
The Hainhölzer Friedhof is the property of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Hanover-Hainholz . It was laid out in 1859 and expanded in 1884. It is about 1,6497 hectares and lies between the streets: Moorkamp, Bunnenbergstraße, Auf dem Dorn and Scheelenkamp.
history
Until 1859 the dead from the sub-villages of the city of Hanover Herrenhausen , Hainholz , Vahrenwald and List were buried in the Nikolaifriedhof . In 1859 the cemetery was closed and the Engesohde city cemetery in the south of Hanover was rebuilt. The villages in the north of Hanover also founded their own cemeteries, the Herrenhausen Cemetery and the Hainhölzer Friedhof.
For the Hainhölzer Friedhof, farmers from List, Vahrenwald and Hainholz made the land available and were allocated "farms" depending on the size of their farms. Other residents of the three villages were also able to purchase grave sites. For more than 140 years, only Protestant Christians from the area of the three villages were allowed to be buried there, from the Hainhölzer parish , the later Heilig-Geist-Gemeinde in Vahrenwald , the Lukas parish (List) , the Matthäuskirche parish (List) and the Vahrenwalder parish . In 2006 the Hainhölzer Friedhof was also opened to Protestant and Catholic Christians from the districts of Vinnhorst, Nordstadt, Ledeburg and Stöcken.
The first morgue was built in 1892. The flower house on the street Auf dem Dorn was destroyed in the Second World War and rebuilt in 1951, in 1955 the cemetery chapel was enlarged and received the fresco painting Resurrection. The cemetery has had its own bell since 1998.
See also
literature
- Pastor Rasch: Von Hageringehusen nach Herrenhausen , self-published by the Herrenhausen parish in 1931
- Chronicle of the St. Marien parish
- Cemetery rules of the Hainhölzer Friedhof
Web links
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 45.1 ″ N , 9 ° 43 ′ 27.5 ″ E