New cemetery (Greifswald)
The New Cemetery is located in the Fettenvorstadt of the university and Hanseatic city of Greifswald in Western Pomerania in northeast Germany . It can be reached via the street of the same name Am neue Friedhof and is a listed building .
history
In 1818 the town of Greifswald opened the old cemetery thus ending of hygienic reasons, the previous practice of their dead in the cemeteries to the churches buried . The area, which is around 4.4 hectares today , was soon too small, however, and so the city council dealt with the construction of another cemetery in the early 1850s. He decided to enlarge the existing cemetery and at the same time commissioned the geodesist Gustav Berlin (1809-1894) to develop a design for a new cemetery in the west of the city. Berlin submitted this to the council on October 23, 1862. It envisaged a strictly geometric floor plan with four fields and a crossroads and was based on the New Burial Ground in Dessau , which was built at the end of the 18th century. The academic gardening inspector Justus Ottmar Friedrich Dotzauer (1808–1876) was commissioned with the planting. Four years later, on August 24, 1864, Superintendent Vogt inaugurated the cemetery. Shortly afterwards, the first burials were carried out.
In the years 1884-1886 the established church , a chapel , designed by C. Doflein . It was inaugurated on January 10, 1887. In the years to come, the cemetery had to be expanded in three sections. In 1912 and 1913, a crematorium was built with the help of a private foundation led by Emma Prast and Willy Gerding . A plaque on each building commemorates them. In the same period an urn grove was built ; the cemetery was expanded again.
The city took over the management of the cemetery with effect from January 21, 1913. Under her direction, the crematorium was inaugurated on January 26 of the same year. In 1933, the graves of the 178 fallen Germans and 23 other Russian war victims from the First World War were redesigned and the cemetery was expanded by a further 10 hectares. After the end of the Second World War , honor graves were built for the fallen of the Red Army . Since 1953 a memorial has been commemorating those persecuted by the Nazi regime ; it was revised in 1970. In 1981 the chapel was torn down and the construction of a new celebration hall began, which was completed in 1985. Some stained glass windows as well as a statue of Christ from the chapel came to the Löcknitz village church and were thus preserved. The crematorium was rebuilt between 1997 and 2001 due to stricter emission regulations .
In the 21st century, the cemetery has a size of around 23.1 hectares.
Graves of famous people
- Bruno Benthien (1930–2015), German geographer
- Gertrud Berger (1870–1949), German painter
- Rudolf Petershagen (1901–1969), commandant of Greifswald, who handed the city over to the Red Army without a fight
- Otto Wobbe (1868–1945), Low German author
- Alwine Wuthenow (1820–1908), Low German poet with the pseudonym Annmariek Schulten
- Hans-Jürgen Zobel (1928–2000), professor of the Old Testament , member of the state parliament in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , president of the synod of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church and rector of the Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald.
See also
Web links
- Report on the creation of the monument lists as well as on the administrative practice in notifying the owners and municipalities as well as on the handling of change requests (as of June 1997) (PDF; 934 kB)
- Friedhofsverwaltung , website of the city of Greifswald, accessed on August 26, 2014.
- New cemetery in Greifswald looks back on 150 years of history: New brochure for the anniversary , press release of the city of Greifswald, accessed on August 26, 2014.
Coordinates: 54 ° 5 '47.2 " N , 13 ° 21' 6.7" E