Dortmund main cemetery
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
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
- 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
Web links
- Description of this sight on the route of industrial culture
- Friedhöfe Dortmund Data, pictures, addresses and plans of the Dortmund cemeteries
- Information board "War Cemeteries" and three more photos
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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