Trier main cemetery
The main cemetery in Trier is the largest cemetery and at the same time the largest green area in the Rhineland-Palatinate city of Trier .
Emergence
The old part of the cemetery has been in use since 1804 and consists of tombs in historicizing styles and Art Nouveau . Trier's Jewish cemetery has also been integrated into the main cemetery since 1920 .
Monuments
In the main cemetery there are a total of six fields with war graves on which dead people from the world wars are buried. German soldiers rest there, but also civil war deaths, mostly from the bombing war, as well as around 700 foreign war deaths. The graves are partly marked with sandstone crosses, partly with ceramic name stones. Some of the war graves were provisionally laid out during the war and further expanded after beds were added between 1955 and 1960. Various religious orders based in Trier have their own small grave fields for their convent members in the Trier main cemetery; the individual resting places are marked here by uniformly designed crosses or inscription panels.
In addition to individual graves, the cemetery also has a large number of historical family graves of long-established Trier families. Some of them have since been reassigned.
The Trier Jewish cemetery is integrated into the cemetery . A monument erected in 1950 for the “victims of the National Socialist tyranny” , created by Michael Trierweiler, shows a person kneeling with one leg, bent over and awaiting further torture. There are also old Roman sarcophagi in the cemetery area .
Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 7 " N , 6 ° 39 ′ 13.8" E
photos
Entrance at Herzogenbuscher Straße 8
Neo-Gothic cemetery chapel with morgue, 1870
Neo-Gothic cemetery chapel with morgue, 1870
inside view
New cemetery chapel
New cemetery chapel
Monument to the Jewish religious community
literature
- Sandra Ost: Walks through the Trier main cemetery , Kliomedia , Trier 2004. ISBN 978-3-89890-071-3