Michaelisfriedhof (Hanover)

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The Michaelisfriedhof in Hanover was established in the middle of the 19th century and is one of ten church cemeteries in Hanover that are still in operation. The cemetery belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Michaelis Congregation . The listed complex with the Michaeliskapelle and some historical graves opposite three nearby memorials is located at Bauerwiese 36 in the Ricklingen district .

history

Until the middle of the 19th century, the historic village of Ricklingen had barely developed beyond the extent of the 18th century. Some of the brickworks on Stammestrasse and Pfarrstrasse that no longer exist today were the first buildings outside the village. Until then, the deceased had been buried in the Linden cemetery . For the first time during the coupling in 1851/53, still in the Kingdom of Hanover , an area north of the Ricklinger Holz was separated out for its own cemetery, which was then opened in 1856.

For residents who died shortly before the establishment of the German Empire in the Franco-German War 1870–1871, a memorial was set up in the small wooded area opposite the cemetery.

Until 1877 Ricklingen belonged to the parish of St. Martin in Linden . But it was not until 1888 that the nearby Michaelis Church was inaugurated.

After the turn of the century , the citizens of Rickling Stamme and Knust donated the Michaeliskapelle, which the architect Hermann Schaedtler then built by 1908. After the flood disaster of 1946 , the coffins of Heinrich Stamme and Wilhelm Stamme, those of their wives and the builder Theodor Knust are said to have been buried "a few meters from the crypt in the ground".

For the fallen of both the First and the Second World War , separate memorials were erected in the first of 1870/71.

As part of measures to protect against flooding in Hanover , the old cemetery wall near the Beeke in the south was replaced by a flood protection wall in 2013 .

Michaelis Chapel

Chapel (south side)
Chapel (north side)

From the cemetery entrance a trimmed lime tree avenue leads directly to the chapel. The architect Hermann Schaedtler erected it until 1908 as a plastered, neo-Romanesque solid building with sandstone decor, particularly detailed in the main portal facing the east and in the side portals. Above the chapel entrance, the names of the founders, the brickworks owners Heinrich and Wilhelm Stamme and that of the builder Theodor Knust are carved in stone.

In the cross-shaped floor plan there is a square central building, the hall, behind which a staircase leads to the actual chapel with its apse-like annex. A small extension in the south of the main building serves as a sacristy , and one in the north as a morgue. A separate entrance from the outside leads into the crypt of the donor families below the chapel house.

Light enters the chapel through the high, domed arched windows, which are divided by Romanesque columns. Above this, a frieze forms the end of the chapel's pyramid roof .

Graves (incomplete)

The graves of long-established farming families such as Klusmann, Willführ or Großkopf can be found among the around 2000 graves in the Michaelisfriedhof. Well-known families such as the Schmalstiegs (from which the Lord Mayor Herbert Schmalstieg descended), the noble family von der Osten and the entrepreneurial Schünemann family have graves there.

The graves of a total of 13 war victims were found in the cemetery: In the area in individual graves "some soldiers who probably died in the hospital during the First & Second World Wars" and "in a small grave field in the back of the citizens of Ricklingen who were probably" involved in the air raids Hanover were killed.

Also known are:

Those new to be buried must "belong to the Protestant parishes of Michaelis in Ricklingen, St. Thomas in Oberricklingen, Bonhoeffer in Mühlenberg or the Catholic St. Augustine parish in Oberricklingen."

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Michaelisfriedhof  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Wolfgang Neß: Local extensions in the 19th century. (see literature)
  2. ↑ a b c d Margret Jans-Lottmann: Ricklingen / Graves in their own neighborhood are in great demand (see literature)
  3. ^ Frank Straßburger (chairman): Heinrich-Stamme-Straße ... Heinrich Stamme (see web links)
  4. ↑ Flood protection in Ricklingen | Message archive for the year 2014 | State capital Hanover | Press & Media | Service | Hannover.de | Home - hannover.de. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 8, 2017 ; Retrieved July 25, 2017 . 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 / www.hannover.de
  5. ↑ Fritz Kirchmeier (responsible): Hanover - Ricklingen, Michaelisfriedhof (see web links)
  6. ^ Hugo Thielen : Stamme, Carl Heinrich Wilhelm. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 599 ( Heinrich-Stamme-Straße is mistakenly located in the Ricklingen district)
  7. ↑ Compare the family's obituary from September 15, 2018 in the daily newspaper [[Neue Presse (Hannover) |]] and in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , reproduced on the page trauer-kunden.de , last accessed on September 23, 2018

Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 17.7 "  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 44"  E