Dortmund main cemetery

Main building of the main cemetery in Dortmund

The Dortmund main cemetery in the Brackel district , Am Gottesacker 25, is the largest green space in Dortmund with 118 hectares and one of the largest cemeteries in Germany.

history

War cemetery with 3032 stone crosses

crematorium

The first plans for a new, central municipal cemetery began in 1912. In 1919 an architectural competition was held. As a result, the cemetery complex and its high-rise buildings were created according to designs by the Dortmund city planning councilor Hans Strobel , the garden architect Gustav Allinger and the architect Josef Wentzler .

The concept of today's picture still corresponds to the execution draft. The cemetery complex is determined by a moving relief of the terrain in which three large axes form the basic structure of the cemetery. There are large, open lawns, old trees and a pond with the black swans. The cemetery was put into operation in 1921, but the main building , which is a listed building in the Expressionist style , was not inaugurated until 1924. In the crematorium from 7,000 to 8,000 annually cremations made.

In the cemetery there is a war cemetery with a twelve meter high memorial and 3,032 simple stone crosses. 3,249 German dead from the First and Second World Wars rest here . In addition, 89 victims of political persecution rest on this monument.

The Jewish part of the main cemetery forms a separate area west of the actual cemetery, on the opposite side of the street. Here a memorial commemorates the city's Jewish citizens murdered in the Holocaust . In this part of the cemetery, also known as the foreigner cemetery, there are another 5,698 war dead. These are forced laborers , prisoners of war and foreigners who fought in units of the Wehrmacht. A memorial commemorates the 5095 Soviet soldiers . Two separate places of honor also commemorate 243 Polish and 106 Yugoslav slave laborers.

The entire cemetery grounds, the mourning hall, columbarium, an enclosed courtyard with archways that Unterstell- and toilet house, the former stables, a side entrance building with a gate, the Jewish section, the foreigners department and 28 single grave monuments are a monument in the monument list of Dortmund entered .

Graves of famous people

One of the visual axes with a bridge, Bachwiesental and avenues on both sides

• Albrecht Brandi , naval officer and submarine commander of the Kriegsmarine, † 1966
• Gerard Bunk , Dortmund Reinoldikantor and composer, † 1958
• Willi Daume , Dortmund entrepreneur and President of the National Olympic Committee, † 1996
• Dietrich Keuning , Mayor of Dortmund from 1954 to 1969, † 1980
• Otto Schmidt , jockey, † 1964
• Will Schwarz , Dortmund architect ( Florian Tower , Bittermark Memorial, etc.), † 1992
• Hans Strobel , Dortmund City Planning Officer, † 1953
• Luise von Winterfeld , city archivist and author, † 1967

See also

• List of burial places of famous people

Web links

Commons : Hauptfriedhof Dortmund  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~23~12315
• Friedhöfe Dortmund Data, pictures, addresses and plans of the Dortmund cemeteries
• Information board "War Cemeteries" and three more photos

Individual evidence

1. ↑ No. A 1037. List of monuments of the city of Dortmund. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: dortmund.de - Das Dortmunder Stadtportal. Monument Authority of the City of Dortmund, April 14, 2014, archived from the original on September 15, 2014 ; accessed on June 18, 2014 (size: 180 kB). 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: 51 ° 30 ′ 45.6 ″  N , 7 ° 32 ′ 35.4 ″  E