Matthäusfriedhof (Essen)

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Cemetery chapel from 1960/61

The Protestant Matthäusfriedhof was inaugurated in Borbeck in 1859 . Borbeck was incorporated into the city of Essen in 1915 .

history

Between 1856 and 1859, the first Protestant pastor of Borbeck, Friedrich Georgi, had the Matthäusfriedhof built. 19th century resting places still exist today. South of the cemetery, Borbeck's first Protestant church, the Matthäuskirche, was consecrated in 1864. It has been a listed building since 1995.

At the Matthäusfriedhof there is a war cemetery with a memorial stone that reads : THE VICTIM IN MEMORY; SEARCH FOR PEACE; HONORING GOD ALONE . 16 war dead from the First World War and 34 war dead from the Second World War rest on this war cemetery . Among them are 49 Germans and one from the former Soviet Union.

When St. Matthew's Church was destroyed in World War II, the cemetery also suffered damage. Between 1960 and 1961, today's morgue and mourning hall was built.

After the Whitsun Storm Ela on July 9, 2014, the cemetery had to be temporarily closed completely. Hurricane gusts with heavy rain caused damage amounting to around 30,000 euros due to the partial overturning of the old trees and falling branches.

Burial sites

In addition to several football players from the Essen Rot-Weiss Essen club , such as August Gottschalk , the mine director and Essen football official Georg Melches is also buried here. It was also Heinz-Horst Deichmann buried here, the eponymous shoe retailer Deichmann made the largest in Europe. There is also the above-mentioned war cemetery here. One of the graves from the 19th century is that of Wilhelm from the Bruch († 1892), the technical director of the former Arenbergschen AG for mining and smelting operations, which was taken over by Rheinstahl around 1920 .

  • War cemetery

  • Memorial stone

  • Family grave with Georg Melches

  • Old tomb

  • Gravestone of Wilhelm from the Bruch († 1892)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen ; Retrieved January 5, 2017
  2. ^ Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge eV War Cemetery Essen-Borbeck, Evangelical Cemetery ; Retrieved January 5, 2017

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 5 ″  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  E