Main cemetery in Erfurt

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The main cemetery in Erfurt is a park-like burial place in Erfurt and the largest cemetery in the state of Thuringia .

history

The celebration hall of the Erfurt main cemetery

The plant was planned from 1907 and opened in 1916 in the west of the city. It has been connected to the city center by a tram line since 1934 and a crematorium since 1977 . The cemetery now covers an area of ​​about 57 hectares.

An ideas competition was initiated in 1912 for its design. As a result, there were two award-winning winners, the garden architect Hennings from Hanover and the architect Paul Meißner from Darmstadt.

Graves and cenotaphs

Memorial for bomb victims and deceased war returnees
Memorial to those persecuted by the Nazi regime .
Muslim graves in the main cemetery in Erfurt.

War cemeteries :

  • Ehrenhain I: for those killed in the First World War. Created in 1914, redesigned in 1975/76. The memorial dates from 1946 (Prof. Brockert). In 2009 all gravestones were re-labeled.
  • Ehrenhain II: occupied in the war years 1939 to 1945. 784 victims ( bomb victims , soldiers) were buried here. The memorial dates from 1958, it was erected in place of a wooden high cross. The granite crosses with the names of the victims date from 1994.
  • Ehrenhain III-MEMENTO: for bomb victims and war returnees. Current design from 1996. 137 grave crosses with 748 names remind of the victims. MEMENTO lettering by Helmut Braun 1952.
  • Hamburg block: for bomb victims from Hamburg and Berlin who died in Erfurt and for those returning from the war: 154 victims.
  • The main cemetery includes the Soviet cemetery of honor for 604 Soviet forced laborers, soldiers and civilians.
  • French grove of honor for victims from both world wars, with a memorial from 1954. 13 graves were destroyed in an air raid on February 20, 1944, 90 victims were exhumed in 1948 and brought to France.

More monuments and graves

  • A memorial from 1994 commemorates the victims of the expulsions in World War II . The relief shows a mother and a trek on the run.
  • A memorial for the glider pioneer Max Standfuß was inaugurated in 1924 in the main cemetery.
  • Most of the victims of the rampage in Erfurt on April 26, 2002 were buried in the main cemetery.
  • The planning of an Islamic burial ground in the Erfurt main cemetery has already been the subject of a diploma thesis at the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt.
  • Even tree graves are offered in the main cemetery.

Honor graves :

There are a total of 239 honorary graves in the main cemetery, 120 of which are under monument protection according to the monument book. Well-known people who were buried in Erich's main cemetery include Erich Kleineidam , professor of philosophy. Hans Walther , Johannes Biereye and Hermann Paul Reisshaus , member of the Reichstag . The following honorary citizens of the city of Erfurt are buried in an honorary grave

Events

In 2006, the main cemetery in Erfurt served as the venue for a performance by cabaret artist Stephan Franke with the program, rest gently!

Web links

Commons : Hauptfriedhof Erfurt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Schoenfeld: Rationalization of the cemeteries. The cemetery reform movement from the beginning to the time of National Socialism. In: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Friedhof und Denkmal, Museum for Sepulchral Culture: Space for the Dead. Braunschweig 2003, ISBN 3-87815-174-8 ISBN 3-87815-174-8 , p. 174.
  2. ^ City administration Erfurt (ed.): The cemetery guide. 3rd edition, 2014. pp. 28-29
  3. ↑ a b directory of graves . In: Official Journal of the State Capital Erfurt . No. 21 , December 31, 2010, p. 8-11 .
  4. ^ Diocese of Erfurt ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 17 ″  N , 10 ° 59 ′ 36 ″  E