Johannisfriedhof (Bielefeld)

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The Johannisfriedhof is a municipal cemetery in the city of Bielefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located on the eastern slope of the Kahler Mountain in the Teutoburg Forest in the Gadderbaum district .

history

Cemetery chapel
Bozi burial site

The Johannisfriedhof was created in 1874 as a supplement to the old cemetery near Jahnplatz, which was becoming increasingly small due to the growing population . The paths were 4 to 6 meters wide and met down the slope at a kind of entrance place and a roundabout. The site was acquired by the Baumhöfener and Petersmeyer company and the leading Mühlendamm was repaired. In 1894 the so-called New Part was added to the cemetery and covered an area of ​​8.8 hectares. After the opening of the Sennefriedhof in the south of the city, the hereditary burials and the burials in row graves were stopped. As part of the reconstruction after the Second World War , the chapel was rebuilt and the entrance area redesigned. The construction of the Ostwestfalendamm in 1970 brought about radical structural changes. Some of the graves had to be reburied and the main entrance was demolished. In 1986 the cemetery was placed under monument protection.

investment

As a classic park cemetery, the Johannisfriedhof is dominated by wide strips of green, a wide lawn axis and numerous rhododendron and thuja species . The trees of life are also remarkable. These were brought together in an arboretum and form a testimony to past cemetery culture: instead of a tombstone, poorer sections of the population plant a tree here. About 70 species are represented there.

The chapel, built in 1950, was built on the ground plan of the cemetery chapel that was destroyed in World War II. The formerly neo-Gothic building was replaced by a more contemporary, simple building.

Some tombs were created by well-known artists, such as the tomb of the Bozi family by the Cologne cathedral builder Peter Fuchs or the grave of the sewing machine manufacturer Hugo Hengstenberg from Bielefeld by Hans Perathoner , the creator of the linen weaver monument . The grave of the Bitter-Spiekerkötter family was designed by Fritz Klimsch , an artist from the Berlin Secession . The grave monument for the former administrative officer Wilhelm Hammerschmidt is worth seeing, as there is a sailing ship relief on a stone decorated with yellowing.

Well-known burial sites

See also

Web links

Commons : Johannisfriedhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detailed chronicle of the Johannisfriedhof. (PDF) City of Bielefeld, accessed on December 29, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Nottebrock, Hermann: Chronicle of Gadderbaum. o. O. 1948, p. 32
  3. ↑ History of the Johannisfriedhof. City of Bielefeld, accessed on December 29, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b Wiese, Heidi: Places for the dead and for the living. The Bielefeld cemeteries as cultural and natural history parks. In: Beaugrand, Andreas: Stadtbuch Bielefeld 1214 - 2014. Bielefelder Verlag. Bielefeld 2013, p. 416

Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′ 57 ″  N , 8 ° 30 ′ 55 ″  E