Main cemetery Frankfurt (Oder)
The main cemetery in Frankfurt (Oder) is the largest cemetery in Frankfurt (Oder) with around 20 hectares .
history
A cemetery in the west of the city on Fürstenwalder Strasse has been in use since 1802. With the opening of today's main cemetery in 1879, it became the “Old Cemetery” and is now Kleistpark .
The original extent of the cemetery area can be recognized by its old boundary walls. These stone walls have been preserved along the north, west and east paths. Originally there was a cemetery chapel on Leipziger Strasse. This was canceled when the crematorium was built in the 1920s.
The cemetery was later expanded, in particular in 1904, 1920 and 1930, in a south-easterly direction while maintaining the remaining section of the wall along the former east path, which runs through the present cemetery almost in the middle.
investment
The network of paths in the cemetery is mostly laid out geometrically. The strongly moving terrain and the numerous avenues and rows of trees along the paths with a large variety of tree species, including several avenues of linden, an avenue of red beech, Douglas fir, hazel and chestnut trees as well as individual rows of maple, robinia, birch and hornbeam trees along the way, have a defining effect. In addition, there are striking solitary trees such as red oak, pyramid oak, copper beech and hemlock. The cemetery is equipped with fountains and basins in different geometric shapes.
Grave sites
Only a few older graves have survived. These, some of them with wrought-iron enclosures, are mostly located near the crematorium.
Worth mentioning is the grave of the Frankfurt sculptor family Fürstenberg with a beautiful relief from 1926 and the grave of the menagerie owner Karl Krone , founder of the circus dynasty of the same name.
Monuments
In addition, there are several military grave fields and war cemeteries from both world wars.
More than 7,600 soldiers and civilian internees are buried at the central war cemetery of the First and Second World Wars . This is also where the repatriation transports of the seriously ill prisoners of war from Siberia, who had been released early to Germany, ended.
Mourning hall with crematorium
In 1929/30 the new mourning hall with crematorium was built according to plans by city architect Josef Gesing . The large hall can hold up to 250 mourners. The building also houses the crematorium , the mortuary for burials and administrative rooms .
The building is clinker cladding, consists of several staggered structures under very flat hip roofs. The two-storey main building with a basement appears cubic.
The mourning hall with crematorium is a testimony to the high-quality urban building under Josef Gesing in the 1920s under monument protection, as it is stylistically interesting and equally committed to Expressionism and New Objectivity.
literature
- Monument topography Frankfurt (Oder), Vol. 3, 2002, p. 268 f.
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Entry Frankfurt (Oder), Am Hauptfriedhof 1 at the German Digital Library
- Entry on Kriegsopfer.org about the Central War Cemetery
Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ 38 ″ N , 14 ° 31 ′ 46 ″ E