Heger cemetery
The Heger Friedhof is an urban cemetery on the Rheiner Landstrasse in Osnabrück . The mourning hall with crematorium and ancillary facilities, built between 1936 and 1937, is a listed building .
history
The cemetery was planned after the First World War and opened in 1925.
In June 1927, the city launched an architectural competition for the artistic design of the cemetery with a mourning hall for 200 people and a morgue with around 30 cells and a cremation facility. An association for cremation had existed since 1907. In December the design with the motto “Campo Santo” was awarded first prize by city architect Sepp Spannmacher and garden architect Hans Wende ( Bochum ). The large building with high blind arches and arcades connected to the side should open to the cemetery and correspond with the complex. Due to a lack of money, however, this design was not implemented, only a small mourning hall was created.
Only in 1935 was another limited competition held, from which the architects Adolf Springer , Oskar Lemke and Friedrich Brinckmann ( Hanover ) emerged as the winners. Sepp Spannmacher's new competition design received only one recognition. The mourning hall with the crematorium was inaugurated on October 10, 1937.
The small mourning hall was renovated in 2008 and the large mourning hall in 2014 .
Description of the structure
The complex was built in the style typical of the 1930s, which combines the new building of the 1920s with traditional and representative elements. The structure of the celebration hall is covered by a flat hipped roof. Three high vertical arches open the entrance front and give the building monumentality. While on one side of the celebration hall there is a niche corridor with four narrow pillars, on the other side there is the functional building for the necessary rooms of a cremation facility. A low wall surrounds a courtyard and ends on one side in a powerful, cubic clock tower. All components have facades in rough, irregular natural stone, which give the system the desired design context. The chimney rises from the roof of the party hall on the opposite side of the entrance. The crematorium was equipped with two gas-powered deck ovens from Ruppmann (Stuttgart). Inside, the horizontal coffin pull through a gate is a special feature. After the coffin has passed the gate, it remains in an artificially lit room and is lowered while the gate leaves close. This should create a theatrical moment appropriate to the occasion.
meaning
With 270,000 square meters, the Heger Friedhof is not only the largest in Osnabrück, but today has the character of the city's main cemetery due to its location and function. 17 departments will continue to offer enough space for a dignified rest for the dead.
The “new” Jewish cemetery is located directly adjacent to the Heger cemetery at the middle entrance of Lotter Kirchweg. This is administered and maintained independently by the Jewish community. A bell tower and six fields of honor for those who fell from different nations during World War II are stops on the regular cemetery tours.
The Heger Friedhof is the only cemetery in Osnabrück to offer an anonymous form of burial .
Graves
- Hermann Gösmann (1904–1979), football official
- Hermann Grupe (1881–1949), writer, "Hiärm Grupe"
- Theo M. Landmann (1903–1978), glass painter
- Hans Georg Calmeyer (1903–1972), lawyer
- Fritz Szalinski (1905–1978), sculptor
- Ludwig Bäte (1892–1977), writer
- Adolf de Haer (1892–1944), painter (field XIH row 01 grave 50)
literature
- Ulrich Hübner: Cultural and building history of the German crematoria. (= Workbooks of the State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony , issue 20.) Sandstein, Dresden 2013, ISBN 978-3-95498-050-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ World War Victim Adolf de Haer ( Memento of the original from June 23, 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.
Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 17.2 ″ N , 7 ° 59 ′ 51.1 ″ E