Kalker cemetery
The Kalker Friedhof is a municipal cemetery in the Merheim district of Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine .
The cemetery was laid out in 1904 when today's Kalk district was still an independent town (it was not incorporated into Cologne until 1910). The creation of a new cemetery became necessary when there was no longer enough space in the old Kalker Friedhof on Kapellenstrasse - which has been preserved as a park to this day. The new, much larger cemetery was laid out in Merheim; the property was made available by the merchant Joseph Bardenheuer, who later found his final resting place here. The opening took place on November 3, 1904. In the 1960s, the cemetery was significantly expanded; its current area is around 15.4 hectares.
The most famous graves of the Kalker Friedhof include the elaborate wall grave of the above-mentioned Joseph Bardenheuer near the main entrance and the grave of the well-known educator Heinrich Welsch , who is buried in hallway 44. The oldest burial place in the cemetery is at the end of the main corridor on the left. Aloys Thumb, the penultimate mayor of the city of Kalk, was buried there in November 1900. The Kalker Friedhof houses around 14,000 graves in total.
The high cross with a bronze body erected around 1920 is attributed to Franz Albermann (1877–1959) and Wilhelm (Willi) Albermann Jr. (* 1873).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Hochkreuz at the Kalker Friedhof , accessed on June 4, 2013
Web links
- Official description with general plan
- The Kalker Friedhof - A visit to the cemetery with Günter Leitner
literature
- Günter Leitner: Cemeteries in Cologne - in the middle of life . Cologne 2003. pp. 234-238.
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '46.7 " N , 7 ° 2' 35.5" E