List of Mennonite cemeteries

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This list contains an overview of existing and previous cemeteries , burial places, etc. that were or are predominantly or exclusively used, occupied or maintained by Mennonites or Mennonite communities. In addition, cemeteries etc. can also be listed which are temporarily or permanently important burial places for Mennonites, e.g. B. church or communal cemeteries with a high proportion of Mennonites buried here. It is not complete.

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Historical background

Often, as a religious minority, Mennonites were not allowed to bury their dead in public or church cemeteries, at best under discriminatory conditions, e.g. B. basically at the edge u. A literary processing describes this phenomenon as follows:

"I'll tell you another story about the Mennonites in the Palatinate," I said. “Not only were the living Mennonites badly treated in this area; the dead were insulted and humiliated too. Since the Mennonites did not belong to the official religions either, they were denied the right to be buried in public cemeteries.

For example, a Mennonite from Kaiserslautern died and was buried in the city's cemetery. The local pastor didn't know about it because he was traveling. When the pastor came back and heard that a Mennonite had been illegally buried in the cemetery, he called the city police. Together they dug up the body and buried it in front of the cemetery wall. As one chronicler suspects, the aim was to show the Mennonites what the church and the public thought of them. "

This is an experience that other free churches that emerged later in Germany also had to make:

“Until well into the 20th century, and occasionally even after the Second World War, there were repeated irritations between regional churches and free churches in connection with funerals. Most of the cemeteries were church property. Therefore, the regional church pastors were able to deny free church preachers access to the cemeteries. It could happen that families bought a grave on the edge of the cemetery so that the free church preacher could say a prayer or give a speech from beyond the fence. Preferably, however, the deceased Freikirchler were sent to the suicide corner of the cemetery. It was the rule long after the Second World War that no bell rang out. ... of necessity ... several communities built their own cemeteries. "

Germany

Andernach - Eich (between Eich and the Krayer Hof )

Mennonite courts and the small Mennonite cemetery [...] are remnants of a small Amish "Schwitzer" community, which split off from the Neuwied [Mennonite] community around 1730 , but today again belongs to the original community in its very reduced number. The Pönterhof and the Krayer Hof were taken over by Mennonites in 1827; the last mennonite on site died in 1943. The now evangelical descendants still look after and occupy the cemetery.

Bolanden

Under Nassau-Weilburg rule , the Mennonites from Weierhof and the surrounding area had to bury their dead in Bolanden. There they had been assigned the area next to the old monastery church as a burial place because, with a few exceptions, there was no room for Mennonites in the “public cemeteries”. From 1812/13 the Mennonites had their own cemetery on the Weierhof (see below under Bolanden-Weiherhof).

Bolanden-Weierhof

Weierhof

The cemetery is located in the immediate vicinity of the former, first Mennonite church on the Weierhof.

It was acquired and completed in 1812/13. The first deceased could be buried in 1811 because of the advanced work. This made the burial place next to the Bolanden Monastery (see above under Bolanden) unnecessary.

Frankenstein - Diemerstein

Diemerstein

After burials in the Protestant cemetery had become more and more difficult, an inheritance donated a piece of land in 1783 . In 1956 the cemetery was transferred to the Goebels family's forest cemetery foundation in Diemerstein / Pfalz . It is used to the present day.

Frankenthal - Eppstein

There is a small cemetery in front of the Mennonite Church in Eppstein .

Friedrichstadt

Friedrichstadt

The cemetery is located behind the Mennonite Church and is still in use today. Gravestones from the 18th century still exist. There is also a burial book from the same period.

Glückstadt

Glückstadt: Chapel from 1692 on the Reformed (Dutch) cemetery, occupy the Holländergang outside the city moat

In a lexicon article you can find the following information about the former Mennonite cemetery in Glückstadt:

“[1631 the Mennonites] together with the Calvinists and Remonstrants received two acres of land outside the city for 50 Rthlr. left for the construction of a cemetery. (It exists today as a Catholic churchyard, without any memories from earlier times, e.g. gravestones, to show). [...] The relationship between the Mennonites and the other denominations was probably generally orderly, we only know of one exception. In the winter of 1684/85 it was disrupted by a dispute with the Reformed about the churchyard keys, with whose possession the income of the cemetery was connected. The keys have so far been in the hands of the nation's deputies , which had long been two Reformed people. When after the death of one Daniel vd Smissen became co-deputy, the Reformed claimed that they belonged to their denomination. The president and the council took the party of the Reformed, the government chancellery, to which D. vd Smissen and Lambert Gerts appealed as head of the Mennonites, essentially sided with them in the final decision. (After the Mennonites became extinct, the cemetery was left to the Reformed alone). [...] The last [Mennonite] died around 1740. "

The Catholic cemetery has not been used since the mid-1960s. It is planned to convert the cemetery chapel from 1692, which is no longer used, into a columbarium (urn house).

Hamburg-Altona

Hamburg-Altona

The cemetery is located in the district of Bahrenfeld in Hamburg-Altona . This burial site is now the smallest cemetery in the Hanseatic city. The municipal council of the Mennonite congregation in Hamburg and Altona is responsible for the supervision of the cemetery .

Inaugurated in 1873, a chapel was added a year later. A number of grave slabs have been moved here from the previous cemetery on Grosse Roosenstrasse . Part of the cemetery is now a listed building. - Mennonites, but also strangers to the community, are buried.

Hamberge near Lübeck

Walled up north portal of the Hamberg Church

When the Lübeck Mennonites did not yet have the right to be buried within the city limits, they had to bury their dead for a corresponding payment on the south side of the cemetery outside the Hanseatic city in the village of Hamberge , which belongs to the cathedral chapter of Lübeck Cathedral . The coffin was carried through the church from north to south, which is still reminiscent of the two corresponding and now walled-up side portals of the Hamberge village church . Remains of the former burial site of the Lübeck Mennonite community in the southern part of the churchyard near the Trave are no longer available. There are also no information boards or the like.

Hanfeld near Starnberg

In Hanfeld, a district of Starnberg, there is evidence of a Mennonite cemetery from 1807 to 1887. He was abandoned after the last members of the denomination left.

Katzweiler -Kühbörncheshof

“At that time [1772] the Mennonites already had their own cemetery on the Kühbörncheshof. It is located next to the Hertzler-Koller estate and was probably built in 1743. At that time, Elector Carl Theodor ordered that the deceased 'Anabaptists', their children and their servants may no longer be buried by Lutheran and Reformed pastors, as has often happened before. In no case could they be buried where Catholics buried their dead. We can therefore assume that the cemetery was built immediately after this electoral decree and that the court founder Hans Heinrich Lattschar also found his final resting place here. ... Due to the large influx of people after the Second World War, the old cemetery soon became too small, so that in 1954 a new burial ground had to be built. "

Candle Home

On the outskirts of the Rosenthal district there is a small cemetery, which is sometimes referred to on maps as the "Old Cemetery" and sometimes as the "Mennonite Cemetery". It was laid out in the 19th century by the Mennonites who lived in Rosenthal. After it later overgrown, it was renovated in 1996.

Lettweiler-Neudorferhof

Walled Mennonite cemetery on the edge of a Mennonite settlement.

Leutesdorf

Marienburg Castle in Leutesdorf, temporarily a Mennonite retirement home

After the Second World War, a Mennonite old people's home was set up in Marienburg Castle in Leutesdorf, whose residents from East and West Prussia were buried in their own cemetery directly on the Rhine from 1954.

The grave slabs are simple and embedded in the ground. There is no longer any occupancy.

Limburgerhof-Kohlhof

The Kohlhöfer Friedhof is behind a farm

The Mennonite cemetery forms a monument zone. It was created in 1840 and expanded around 1940; Slanted panels serve as tombs.

Market Indersdorf - Eichstock

The cemetery was laid out in 1841 parallel to the construction of the prayer house .

In 1943 the Anabaptist researcher Christian Hege was buried in the grave of his father. In 2003 the Mennonite History Association honored him with a memorial plaque that was placed at this point.

Market Indersdorf- Wagenried

A burial place was built and used from 1823 to 1841, which was then replaced by a new one at the Mennonite prayer house in Eichstock.

Monsheim - home of war

Today's Mennonite congregation Monsheim had its church in Kriegsheim until 1820, which has been part of Monsheim since 1969. There was a cemetery of the community on the spot where the Roman Catholic Church has stood since 1864.

Ober-Flörsheim

There was a Mennonite cemetery here until the 19th century.

Otterberg

In 1948 there was still a Mennonite cemetery in Otterberg ; these have settled there since the beginning of the 18th century.

Sinsheim

Near the road Sinsheim - Weiler (L 550), south of the A 6 , is the natural monument "Alte Eiche" on the way to Immelhäuser Hof .

“At the first fork in the road is the tiny 'Old Mennonite Cemetery' with three gravestones. There was also a small church here. After the Second World War it served as an apartment for expellees. Then the dilapidated building was demolished. Two of the four farms still exist. One of them is run by the fourth generation of the Mennonite family Binkele. "

Sippersfeld

To the east of the Pfrimmerhof district is a small Mennonite cemetery, which was probably created around 1800.

Trippstadt

There is a Mennonite cemetery near Wilenstein Castle , also known as the Wilenstein Cemetery .

Viersen

In Viersen, according to the Viersener Bannbuch, there was an Anabaptist cemetery west of Gladbacher Straße, in the fork in the road formed by it and the Ornperter Weg.

France

Dorst / Waldhouse

Dorst Mennonite Cemetery

Dorst Mennonite Cemetery : Dorst was a former Mennonite settlement, which today mainly belongs to the Walschbronn community . The cemetery itself is on a slope on a meadow in the district of Waldhouse. The oldest gravestones date from 1856. Mennonites may have been buried here before that, or there were burials at their courts beforehand. The last burial took place in 1935. The cemetery went wild in the following years. In 2004, the Waldhouse community decided to restore and purchased the cemetery area. The repairs were completed in 2006. After two years of restoration, a photo exhibition was shown in 2011. The grave inscriptions can usually be found on the back of the tombstones.

Haraucourt-sur-Seille

Entrance to the Mennonite cemetery in Haraucourt-sur-Seille

18th century cemetery.

Poland

Mennonite cemetery Fischau: ruin of the bell tower
Mennonite cemetery haylofts

There are a number of Mennonite cemeteries in Poland. The Mennonites had particularly settled in Polish Prussia . After the annexation of West Prussia and Danzig in 1772 and 1793, many emigrated to Russia.

Examples are:

United States

Landis Valley , Pennsylvania

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ C. Henry Smith, Behalt's , in: Harry Loewen, No permanent city. Mennonite stories from five centuries , Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-930435-05-5 , p. 256.
  2. ↑ Erich Geldbach , Free Churches - Heritage, Shape and Effect , 2., completely revised. Ed., Göttingen 2005 (Bensheimer Hefte 70), ISBN 3-525-87157-0 , p. 157.
  3. ↑ Dirk Cattepoel, Art. Neuwied , in: Mennonitisches Lexikon Vol. 3 (1958), p. 221.
  4. ^ Eich - A district of Andernach with its own history. Experience Eastern Eifel, Ulrich Siewers, accessed on April 27, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Mennonite Congregation Weierhof, Gary J. Waltner (Ed.), 300 Years Mennonite Congregation Weierhof 1682-1982. On the history of the Mennonite community Weierhof 1682-1982 , p. 27.
  6. ^ Christian Neff, Christian Hege: Weierhof. In: Mennonite Lexicon. Volume 4 (1967), p. 486.
  7. ↑ Mennonite Church Weierhof, Gary J. Waltner (ed.): 300 years Mennonitengemeinde Weierhof 1682-1982. On the history of the Mennonite community Weierhof 1682-1982. P. 27.
  8. ↑ The Mennonite Cemetery in the Diemerstein Valley. Frankenstein-Historie.de, accessed on September 20, 2011 .
  9. ^ Robert Dollinger: Art. Glückstadt , in: Mennonitisches Lexikon Vol. II (1937), p. 125 f.
  10. ↑ Peter Höver: Bringing the cemetery out of slumber , on shz.de October 2, 2016, accessed on January 21, 2017.
  11. ^ Last rest in the columbarium , on shz.de on November 16, 2014, accessed on April 2, 2017.
  12. ↑ Werner Neugebauer: Beautiful Holstein , Lübeck 1967, p. 97.
  13. ↑ City Archives Starnberg. Hanfeld, real estate tax register 1865: The Westermaiergut, Mennonite churchyard 0.06 TGW.
  14. ↑ Roland Paul , 300 years of Mennonite parish Kühbörncheshof , in: Heimatjahrbuch 2016 des Landkreis Kaiserslautern , ISSN  0946-1361 , pp. 131-138, here pp. 134 a. 138.
  15. ↑ ZB online at https://www.google.de/maps/place/Alter+Friedhof+Rosenthal/@49.5607052,8.0108652,16.14z/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x47963d3bff6322ef:0xdf07cd6b5d04674+ . + 67304 + Candle home! 3b1! 8m2! 3d49.562417! 4d8.0172046! 3m4! 1s0x47963dec825cd169: 0xf8bf8d5d459eeb43! 8m2! 3d49.5595265! 4d8.014226 , accessed on June 24, 2020.
  16. ↑ ZB online at https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=kerzenheim#map=17/49.55947/8.01383
  17. Jump up ↑ Local community in Kerzenheim (ed.), Rosenwanderweg. Around the historic Rosenthal, Blattrandweg 3.
  18. ↑ Cf. Congregational Chronology of the Mennonite Congregation Neuwied , read on April 3, 2018.
  19. ↑ http://www.ekir.de/bukoba/advent2012/4.html, accessed on January 26, 2017, no longer available on April 3, 2018.
  20. ↑ Page not found ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , List of cultural monuments in Limburgerhof @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.limburgerhof.de
  21. ^ Walter Fellmann: List of Mennonite cemeteries . In: Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online
  22. ↑ Article Ober-Flörsheim on gameo.org, accessed on August 5, 2014.
  23. ^ Gerhard Hein, Art. Otterberg , in: Mennonitisches Lexikon Vol. 3, Karlsruhe 1958, p. 326.
  24. ^ Siegfried Joneleit: pause in the smallest cemetery in Kraichgau , suggested hiking by Heilbronner Voice. Eppinger Zeitung in Kraichgau and Neckar Valley - on the go. in the footsteps of the Mennonites, in: Heilbronner Voice, May 2002, accessed on February 5, 2013
  25. ↑ Walk to the Mennonite Cemetery. (No longer available online.) Support group Burg Wilenstein eV, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved May 1, 2013 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / burgwilenstein.de
  26. ↑ Old Evangelical Cemetery. City of Viersen, accessed on July 19, 2015 .
  27. ↑ Hartmut Petrus, Der Mennonitische Friedhof Dorst (Lothringen) , in: Heimatkalender 2016 for the Pirmasenser and Zweibrücker Land , pp. 93–97, here p. 94.
  28. ↑ Thorsten Wolf: Pictures that announce life in death - link no longer available on April 27, 2019, can now be found at [1] , accessed on June 24, 2020, in: Pfälzischer Merkur from November 10, 2011, accessed on November 20, 2012. - The text and image files were handed over to the following locations: Mennonite Research Center Weierhof, Association Française d'Histoire Anabaptiste-Mennonite, Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore Kaiserslautern, the communities of Waldhouse and Walschbronn (cf. Petrus, see above, p 96f.) - Further information in French under [2] , on the Mennonites there in general: [3] , photos: [4] and [5] , all accessed on November 20, 2012.
  29. ↑ Dolores Harder, Glenn Penner: Prussian Cemetery Grave Stone Inscriptions (pdf, English, with list of gravestones)
  30. ↑ Photo on flickr.com
  31. ↑ On the history of Thörichthof , accessed on December 9, 2012
  32. ↑ page not found  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.europa-uni.de  
  33. ↑ In the immediate vicinity of the museum village of Landis Valley there is a Mennonite meeting house and an old Mennonite cemetery. Pennsylvanian-German history in the Landis Valley museum village  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 9, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.taeufergeschichte.net