Main cemetery Saarbrücken
The main cemetery in Saarbrücken is the largest cemetery in the Saarland capital .
location
The main cemetery (sometimes also Südfriedhof) is located in the southwest of Saarbrücken between Dr.-Vogler-Strasse, Metzer Strasse and the German-French border.
history
The cemetery was laid out in 1914 and initially served as a burial place for fallen soldiers of the First World War . From 1916 the cemetery was opened for civil burials, in 1917 the inner-city cemeteries in St. Johann and Alt-Saarbrücken were closed. In 1926 it was decided to expand the cemetery and make it the main cemetery in Saarbrücken. From 1928 to 1930, a sanctuary and a crematorium were built according to plans by city building officer Walther Kruspe for around 2 million francs. In addition to new grave fields, an entrance and administration building as well as a greenhouse were built. After the Second World War , a second expansion phase began with the development of unused remaining areas in the northwest of the site. The older parts have been redesigned in terms of horticulture and architecturally enriched with underground buildings and a gatehouse. Between 1963 and 1965, Peter Paul Seeberger built a new congregation hall made of exposed concrete with a free-standing bell tower in the northern part .
The main cemetery within the boundaries of 1933 with the hippodrome and the relocated memorial for the 2nd Hanoverian Infantry Regiment No. 77, the old consecration hall with crematorium, water tower, greenhouse, the houses for cemetery staff and the horticultural design of the remaining areas are listed as an ensemble.
description
With an area of around 65 hectares, the main cemetery is the largest cemetery in southwest Germany with two consecration halls and a modern crematorium . The center of the cemetery is a roundabout with a water basin.
The cemetery offers row graves, lawn graves, border graves, deep graves, above-ground burial chambers and historical graves. Row graves, tree graves, border graves, urn walls and an urn pyramid grave are offered for ashes. There is also a burial ground for Muslims and a fetus burial ground .
Monuments
The cemetery has monuments and graves for the war victims of the Franco-German War 1870/71, the First World War and the Second World War.
Personalities who found their final resting place in the cemetery
- Johann August Drescher (1896–1952), actor
- Otto Lackenmacher (1927–1988), painter
- Hans Neikes (1881–1954), Mayor of Saarbrücken
- Franz Singer (1898–1953), Mayor of Saarbrücken
- Peter Zimmer (1887–1970), Mayor of Saarbrücken
Web links
- Website at the city of Saarbrücken
literature
- Rainer Knauf: Civil and military cemetery and tomb design in the 20th century, The Saarbrücker Hauptfriedhof 1912–1959, Sankt Ingbert 2010.
Individual evidence
- ^ Bastian Müller: Architecture of the post-war period in the Saarland . Landesdenkmalamt Saar, Saarbrücken 2011, p. 63.
- ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, Saarbrücken sub-monuments list (PDF; 653 kB), p. 2.
Coordinates: 49 ° 12 '48.6 " N , 6 ° 57' 3.6" E