Mennonite cemetery Hamburg-Altona
The Mennonite Cemetery Hamburg-Altona is located in the east of the Bahrenfeld district in Hamburg-Altona . With 6932 m² and 1000 graves, the Mennonite burial site is the smallest cemetery in the Hanseatic city today . The municipal council of the Mennonite congregation in Hamburg and Altona is responsible for the supervision of the cemetery .
Predecessor cemetery
A first Mennonite cemetery was on Grosse Roosenstrasse (today Paul-Roosen-Strasse ). This was used from 1678, but from 1873 only for hereditary funerals. In 1936 the cemetery was cleared, sold and finally built over.
Today's cemetery
The burial site at Bahrenfelder Holstenkamp 80–82 was inaugurated in 1873, and a year later a chapel was added, but it was destroyed in the Second World War. A gardener's house from 1896 still exists.
Listed old part
From the previous cemetery, 38 grave slabs made of sandstone, which are under monument protection , could be transferred to the new cemetery in Bahrenfeld and erected again according to their previous arrangement. The oldest of these grave slabs dates from 1679. House brands, family coats of arms and inscriptions on the grave slabs, some of which are still in Dutch , still provide information about the Mennonite merchant families living in Hamburg and Altona at that time. The grave slabs integrated in the new cemetery have a memorial with the inscription Dedicated to the dead, whose mortal shells were once buried in the old cemetery and now found a new resting place at this site , designed by the Hamburg sculptor Arthur Bock .
This part of the cemetery is now a listed building.
New part
Even today, the cemetery is a burial place in Hamburg and Mennonites living in the surrounding area , without all Mennonites being buried here. Regardless of the circumstances of death, people from outside the community and dead of all denominations are buried in the Mennonite cemetery. For example, there is also a Jewish tomb here. In 2008, thanks to a donation, the outer walls of the cemetery were renovated.
Graves of famous personalities
Mennonite pastors
Entrepreneur
- Helmut Greve , patron
scientist
- Ernst Schepansky , social historian
Directors, actors
- Heinz Dunkhase , director
photos
literature
- Mennonite Cemetery , in: Mammut-Verlag (ed. And red.) In cooperation with the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Authority for Urban Development and Environment, Department of Landscape and Green Planning and Confessional Cemetery Administrations of the City of Hamburg, Der Friedhofswegweiser. Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Information. Hints. Locations. History. Addresses. Advertisements , 1st edition, Leipzig 2008, pp. 212–215, OCLC 724315157
Web links
- Official website of the Mennonite Cemetery Hamburg
- Directory of the tombstones in the historic Mennonite cemetery
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Katy Krause: Hamburg's unusual cemetery. In: Hamburger Abendblatt of March 17, 2017, p. 15
- ↑ Katy Krause: Hamburg's unusual cemetery. In: Hamburger Abendblatt of March 17, 2017, p. 15
- ↑ Katy Krause: Hamburg's unusual cemetery. In: Hamburger Abendblatt of March 17, 2017, p. 15
Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '17.2 " N , 9 ° 54' 58.5" E