Aplerbeck municipal cemetery

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Mourning Hall from the South (2011)
Mourning Hall from the North (2011)

The Aplerbeck municipal cemetery is a municipal cemetery in Aplerbeck . Until 1929, what is now Dortmund 's Aplerbeck district formed an independent municipality or an office in the Hörde district . The cemetery has an area of ​​over 21,500  square meters ; to the north-east is the catholic cemetery, accessible via Aplerbecker Strasse , which takes up an area of ​​9,000 m², and to the west is the Aplerbecker elementary school. The park-like cemetery has been open to members of all religions and non-denominationalists since its opening. After temporarily no more occupancies were recorded, burials are now taking place again (as of 2013).

history

In 1895 consultations began within the civil parish of Aplerbeck on the establishment of a communal cemetery, after an extension of the Protestant cemetery was rejected for reasons of cost. The plot of land envisaged covered an area of ​​4.6206  hectares , but was ultimately never claimed to this extent. After the financing of the estimated costs of 45,000 marks was secured in 1895, the cemetery was laid out until 1896. The cemetery regulations passed by the local council on December 17, 1895 received approval from the Royal Government in Arnsberg on March 20, 1896. From the beginning, the cemetery provided separate corridors for Protestants, Catholics and Jews. The part reserved for Catholics came to be in the north, following the previous Catholic cemetery, which was almost fully occupied at the time.

While the originally planned floor space allocation (Catholics I and II; Jews III; Protestants IV, V, VI and VII) was ultimately not implemented, but instead was assigned to the Jews floor IV, on August 30, 1896, the 50-year-old invalid Carl Schneider held the first funeral in hallway III. The nearby provincial lunatic asylum was also buried in the municipal cemetery . It is not known whether the 15 deaths registered up to 1920 were patients or staff of the institution. The burial of four men who had been buried two days earlier in the dump of the Aplerbecker hut was recorded for June 16, 1914. One of them died directly in the accident, the three who were initially rescued, then died in the course of the day. In 1924, at the request of the "Cremation Association", an urn field was set up west of the entrance area to the mourning hall . There is also a memorial on this, the inscription of which refers to the “Bund freireligöser Gemeinde eV founded in 1859. Aplerbeck congregation”.

Burial ground of the synagogue community (2011)

With the establishment of the communal cemetery, the local Jews, who only established their own synagogue community in Aplerbeck in 1911, were assigned a burial area of around 200 m² in size, located northeast of the mourning hall. The 42-year-old Israelite Salomon Löwenstein, who died on October 23, 1903, was the first Jew to be buried. He was followed by a further 26 by 1927 (a total of 44 burials by 1939). Rosa Herzberg, born on November 14th, 1939 Solomon was the last parishioner to be buried there. 18 tombs have been preserved on the unseparated field.

Since October 23, 1989, the funeral hall, the monument of the "Association for Freethinking and Cremation", two tombs on the main part and the burial ground of the former synagogue community have been listed as a historical monument (monument number A 0157).

Mourning hall

Northeast Mourning Hall (2011)

The listed mourning hall ( location ) was built between 1905 and 1907 based on designs by the official builder Wilhelm Stricker . The single-storey , brick Gothic , two-winged building, covered with a hipped gable roof , houses the actual mourning hall (chapel) in its east wing and offices and storage rooms in the transverse wing. After the building had not been used as intended since 2006, the vacancy resulted in increasing neglect. This could be stopped in the years 2012 and 2013 by a fundamental renovation with financial and practical support of the descendants of Strickers and the 1992 founded "Aplerbeck History Association". Since then, the history association has been using parts of the leased building as the association's headquarters. In addition to its actual purpose, the mourning hall can also be used for readings or concerts. The conversion costs for own purposes amounted to 37,000 euros. The redevelopment in accordance with the requirements of historical monuments another 165,000 euros, in which the city of Dortmund and the Aplerbeck district representative, the Stricker-Holding, the history association itself and other companies, the citizens and local business people participated with donations amounting to 52,000 euros.

See also

Web links

Commons : Aplerbeck cemetery  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Jewish part of Aplerbeck cemetery  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Friedhofskapelle Aplerbeck-Mitte  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Municipal cemetery . On Aplerbeck then, accessed on December 25, 2013.
  2. ↑ Layout of a municipal cemetery (1894–1896), accessed on December 30, 2013. digital
  3. ↑ a b The burial register of the community of Aplerbeck (1896–1920), accessed on December 30, 2013. digital
  4. ↑ Cremation at the municipal cemetery (1924), accessed on December 30, 2013. digital
  5. ^ A b Elfi Pracht-Jörns : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part V: Arnsberg district. (= Contributions to the architectural and art monuments of Westphalia, Volume 1.3 ) JP Bachem Verlag , Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-7616-1449-7 , p. 102.
  6. ↑ a b The funeral hall of the communal cemetery (1905–1913), accessed on December 30, 2013. digital
  7. ^ Renovation of the cemetery chapel. from aplerbeck.de, accessed on December 30, 2013.

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 50.5 ″  N , 7 ° 33 ′ 48.8 ″  E