Altona cemetery
The Altona cemetery is located in the northwest of Hamburg and is the third largest cemetery in the city with an area of 63 hectares . The main entrance is on Stadionstrasse. It has been under protection since the new version of the Hamburg Monument Protection Act in 2013.
History of origin
planning
The city of Altona acquired an area of 83 hectares, which was made up of exploited gravel pits and fallow land to build the cemetery. The Altona main cemetery was planned from 1913 by the then Altona horticultural director Ferdinand Tutenberg . The facility, which was intended as a central cemetery for the city of Altona, was intended to replace the previous small church cemeteries and to implement a contemporary urban planning element with the generous green space. Construction began in the spring of 1920, the first burial took place on October 2, 1923, before the official opening on November 1, 1923. The Mayor of Altona, Bernhard Schnackenburg , gave the ceremonial address three months before his death.
Landscape cemetery
Tutenberg's plan was based on the concept of an “architectural-landscape” cemetery, which should also enable the less well-to-do residents of the city to have a dignified burial. To explain his ideas, Tutenberg wrote in 1928:
- "Whoever visits his dead should not see rows of graves stretching far and wide, but should gain the possibility of inner collection through the limited space of the garden."
An axis-related, geometrically aligned network of paths was created, the center of which is the broad avenue-like central axis and its end with a memorial for the fallen of the Second World War . To the west of this axis lie varied forest and park-like parts, on the eastern side the urn burial area laid out in concentric circles is decisive.
The majority of the graves are marked by grave steles, whereby the desired homogeneous appearance is achieved. In the forest part, however, there are also elaborately designed grave walls or grave crosses.
building
There is a chapel and two cemetery nurseries on the site. Gustav Oelsner added the rectangular arcade porch to the chapel from 1926 to 1927. A crematorium was originally planned for the cemetery , but has not yet been built. The administration is located on the cemetery grounds and is accessible from Stadionstrasse.
Altona cemetery today
By 2012, more than 100,000 burials had taken place in the cemetery.
War graves
The Altona war cemetery with war graves from the Second World War is located in the Altona cemetery. The majority of the graves are graves of civilian bomb victims from Altona, but also graves of soldiers. The current complex was built towards the end of the 1960s when the dead who had been buried in the cemetery during the war were reburied here. The complex is dominated by a high cross, in the immediate vicinity of which are the soldiers' graves. The graves of the bomb victims are arranged in the shape of a cross. Either standing stone crosses or lying grave slabs are used as gravestones. The stones are unadorned except for the symbol of an iron cross and the name of the deceased; dates of birth and death are not given.
Monuments
In the cemetery there is a memorial to the First World War in the form of a seated soldier and another memorial to the First World War by Ludwig Kunstmann for the Lauenburg Field Artillery Regiment 45.
HSV cemetery
Since 2008 there has been a cemetery specially designed for the graves of fans of the Hamburg sports club in the northeastern part of the site . The Volksparkstadion is directly adjacent on the other side of a street outside the cemetery. The design was based on the shape of a football stadium and hinted at elements such as grandstands, football goal and playing field. Parts of the site are laid out with the original stadium lawn.
Graves of famous people
Well-known graves are:
- Rudolf Beiswanger (1903–1984), actor at the Ohnsorg Theater , theater director
- Peter Beil (1937–2007), pop singer
- Max Brauer (1887–1973), Mayor of Altona
- August Kirch (1879–1959), Mayor of Altona
- Ferdinand Tutenberg (1874–1956), planner of the cemetery
- Bernhard Schnackenburg (1867–1924), Mayor of Altona
- Alma Wartenberg (1871–1928), women's rights activist
- Hermann Hinrichs (1878–1944), social democrat, trade union official
- Konrad Hentrich (1880–1972), linguist
- Ernst Budzinski (1888–1951), actor
- Paul Bugdahn (1890–1948), member of the Hamburg parliament
- Adolf Jäger (1889–1944), football player
- Rudolf Lodders (1901–1978), architect
- Herbert Tobias (1924–1982), photographer
- Peter Rühmkorf (1929–2008), poet
- Eva Rühmkorf (1935–2013), Senator
- Werner Riepel (1922–2012), actor at the Ohnsorg Theater
Future development
The cemetery has been administered by the Altona district since its inception. An integration into the central Hamburg cemetery administration is under discussion as part of an administrative reform, but is viewed critically by the Altona district.
Photographs and map
Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 12 ″ N , 9 ° 53 ′ 19 ″ E
Max Brauer's grave in the typical shape of a grave stele
HSV cemetery, in the background the HSV stadium
Roma graves
Gravestone of Erna and Rudolf Beiswanger
Grave of Peter Beil
See also
literature
- Barbara Leisner, Norbert Fischer : The cemetery guide . Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-7672-1215-3 , p. 90-93 .
- District Office Altona (Ed.): Main cemetery Altona - your guide . ( online [PDF; accessed September 10, 2014]).
- District Office Altona (ed.): On the history of the main cemetery in Altona . Hamburg 2013. , see photo on Commons
Web links
- Website of the Altona cemetery
- Directory of the cultural monuments of the city of Hamburg
- Representation of the war graves on the homepage of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge
Individual evidence
- ↑ After hectares Cemetery Ohlsdorf, Öjendorfer cemetery, cemetery Altona, Bergedorf cemetery.
- ↑ The Altona main cemetery. Funerary culture. In: District Office Hamburg-Altona, Department of Urban Greenery (Ed.): Altonaer Volkspark 1914–2014, Hamburg 2014, p. 34.
- ↑ Matthäus Becker: The city of Altona . Published and edited on behalf of the magistrate. Monographs of German cities. Deutscher Kommunal-Verlag 1928. p. 29 books.google
- ↑ Short message ( memento of the original from April 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Elbe Wochenblatt on February 21, 2012. Retrieved on September 24, 2014.
- ↑ a b c Information from the Altona district on the cemetery. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
- ^ Report in Hamburg Magazin on the Altonaer Volkspark and the HSV cemetery. Retrieved September 10, 2014.
- ↑ The HSV cemetery - illustration of the fan cemetery on the HSV homepage, accessed on September 10, 2017.
- ↑ The documentation sheet for celebrity graves at the main cemetery in Altona with information on their location is available from the cemetery administration.
- ↑ Article ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Elbe Wochenblatt of October 22, 2013. Accessed on September 24, 2014.
