New cemetery (Dirmstein)

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New cemetery
Classicist cemetery chapel

Classicist cemetery chapel

Data
place Dirmstein
Architectural style classicism
Construction year 1857
Floor space 14,000 m²
Coordinates 49 ° 34 '10.6 "  N , 8 ° 14' 55.1"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 34 '10.6 "  N , 8 ° 14' 55.1"  E
New cemetery (Rhineland-Palatinate)
New cemetery

The New Cemetery in the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality of Dirmstein has been in use since the 1850s. At that time the old cemetery in the east of the village was closed.

Geographical location

The New Cemetery is located about 1 km from the Old Cemetery, in the north of the community on the southern slope of the low ridge that separates the streams of the Eckbach and the Floßbach . At the time of construction, it was not directly adjacent to the residential area, but was about 300 m from the outskirts. In the meantime the village has pushed its way up to him via Friedhofstrasse .

investment

The cemetery is about 70 by 200 m and has an area of ​​1.4 hectares, the outer sides point to the cardinal points. From the entrance area in the south, the terrain rises to the north from 113 to 116  m . 50 m behind the entrance is a Friedhofskapelle , on both sides and rearwardly extending burial . In the area of ​​the entrance and around the chapel there are old to very old trees.

history

A number of gravestones worth protecting were moved from the old to the new site in the second half of the 20th century and placed near the entrance. Therefore, and because the cemetery chapel, which the founding family of Gideon of Camuzi (1799-1879) in classical style as a family tomb was built, the new cemetery stands as a complete system under monument protection . In the chapel, part of the original frescoes , which had been plastered over decades earlier, has been restored. At the turn of the millennium, an extension was added in coordination with the monument authority .

In February 1945, at the end of the Second World War , Cyril William Sibley , a member of the British Royal Air Force , was buried in the cemetery . As a tail gunner, he survived the downing of his aircraft with minor injuries because he jumped off with the parachute; but on the night of his capture he was murdered by Adolf Wolfert , the Dirmstein local group leader of the NSDAP . In 1948 the remains were transferred to the British military cemetery in Rheinberg on the Lower Rhine. Since March 2009, a stumbling stone in the center of the village across from the Laurentiuskirche has been reminding of the murder victim.

literature

  • Georg Peter Karn, Ulrike Weber: Bad Dürkheim district. City of Grünstadt, Union communities Freinsheim, Grünstadt-Land, Hettenleidelheim (=  monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate . Volume 13 , no. 2 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2006, ISBN 978-3-88462-215-5 .
  • Hannes Ziegler: Dirmstein in National Socialism . In: Michael Martin (Ed.): Dirmstein. Nobility, peasants and citizens. Chronicle of the Dirmstein community . Foundation for the Promotion of Palatine Historical Research , Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 2005, ISBN 3-9808304-6-2 , p. 197 ff . (Foundation for the Promotion of Palatinate Historical Research, Volume 6).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
  2. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Bad Dürkheim district. Mainz 2020, p. 27 (PDF; 5.1 MB).
  3. ^ Hannes Ziegler: Dirmstein in National Socialism . Dirmstein in World War II, p. 206 f .
  4. ^ Albert H. Keil (editor): Dirmstein remembers . Dirmstein parish, 2009, p. 4, 9 ff., 13 ff .