Witten-Annen municipal cemetery

Preserved and listed tombstones of the first municipal cemetery on the north side of today's municipal cemetery

The municipal cemetery Witten-Annen or Friedhof Annen is a municipal cemetery in Witten in the district of Annen . It has a size of approx. 4.8  ha .

history

In 1861, numerous house and landowners in Annens submitted an application to the district administration for the establishment of a cemetery . The Protestant majority was parish in Lütgendortmund . After opposition from both the farmers who had hereditary burial places in Lütgendortmund and the pastor , the cemetery on Stockumer Strasse (then Bahnhofstrasse ) could not be inaugurated until 1865 after difficult negotiations. In 1876 a Jewish cemetery was also set up in the municipal cemetery .

Memorial stones for the second Jewish cemetery in Annen

After the first cemetery soon turned out to be too small due to the population growth, a larger area "at the foot of the Wullener Mountains", today Diesterwegstrasse , was acquired in 1881 . The new municipal cemetery was approved by the District President Arnsberg in 1883 and inaugurated in 1884. In 1898 a second Jewish cemetery was set up at the northwest end . The old municipal cemetery and thus also the first Jewish cemetery was built over by the Annen cast steelworks before the Second World War . Gravestones considered worth preserving were placed on the northern edge of the new cemetery.

Memorial for forced laborers , u. a. of the Annener Gußstahlwerk subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp

Semicircular, uniform graves mainly of victims of the air raids in 1945

In 1938 the second Jewish cemetery was leveled and used for the burial of forced laborers and others. a. from the Annener Gußstahlwerk subcamp . Two memorial stones have been commemorating the second Jewish cemetery since 1993. ( Location ) In 1959, a memorial stone with the misleading inscription “Dead of the Allies” was erected next to the graves of the concentration camp prisoners and slave laborers. In 1990 the misleading inscription was removed and in 1993 a memorial plaque was put up for the forced laborers who died in Witten. ( Location )

literature

• Jürgen Dodt, Wilhelm Fisse, Karl-Gustav Sprave, Gabriele Schnurr: Annen. From a farming village to an industrial location. 12th century until incorporation in 1929 . Ed .: History Association Witten-Annen. 1st edition. History Association Witten-Annen, Witten 2010, p. 55–56 (without ISBN).
• Martina Kliner-Fruck: Cemeteries. Places of city history. A small excursus on cemetery and funeral services in Witten . In: Cemeteries in Witten . Prowiss-Verlag, Gladbeck 2005, p. 20-26 .

Web links

Commons : Kommunalfriedhof Witten-Annen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• City of Witten: cemeteries
• Witten-Annen municipal cemetery at the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cemeteries. City of Witten , accessed on March 22, 2017 . 
2. ^ Paul Brandenburg, Karl-Heinz Hildebrand: Witten. Streets, paths, squares . With a contribution to the history of Witten settlement by Heinrich Schoppmeyer (=  contributions to the history of the city of Witten . Volume 1 ). VOHM , Witten 1989, ISBN 3-920611-13-6 ( street directory in the Internet archive ( Memento from May 15, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on December 27, 2012]).
3. ↑ Annen. In: Jewish cemeteries in Germany. December 2002, accessed March 22, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Susanne Linka: Free view. Ungrown growth in front of boards at the municipal cemetery removed. In: Ruhr news . April 13, 2011, accessed January 20, 2017 . 

Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '13.3 "  N , 7 ° 22' 1.9"  E