New Bockenheim cemetery

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Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 8.5 ″  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 39.3 ″  E

The former brewhouse, rededicated to the mourning hall, south facade

The New Bockenheim Cemetery has been the cemetery of today's district of Frankfurt am Main , Bockenheim , since 1878 . It is located at Ginnheimer Landstrasse 97 opposite the Markus Hospital on the border with the Frankfurt-Ginnheim district .

history

The old Bockenheim cemetery was inaugurated in 1825. By 1875 the population had increased six-fold to 13,000 in 1825, and the cemetery had become much too small. Therefore a new cemetery was created. It was handed over to its intended use in 1878 and was built on the premises of the brewery of brewer Heinrich Karl Birk, which had been closed a few years earlier. The brewhouse from 1839 was converted into a mourning hall . The New Cemetery was planned by Heinrich Siesmayer and, after an expansion in 1871, covers an area of ​​6.06 hectares with around 5250 grave sites. This makes it the eighth largest cemetery in Frankfurt am Main.

In 2005 the current mourning hall was extensively renovated by the city.

Prominent dead in the cemetery

Monument protection

A large number of tombs are under monument protection. Examples:

Tomb year Description (monument office) photo
Grave of the Harth family 1909 A gate-like stele modeled on an aedicula in Art Nouveau style . Bronze bowl in the center, bronze panels Harth
Grave of the couple Christian and Wilhelmina Harth 1921 Married couple Christian Harth (born March 17, 1853 - † January 14, 1921) and Wilhemine Harth b. Saam (born September 9, 1854 - † January 11, 1923), stonemason: Hofmeister Married couple C. + W. Harth
Grave of the Knodt-Forell-Kramer family 1902 Copper relief on the cemetery wall. Christian Knodt was a metal goods manufacturer. Robert Forell a painter from Bockenheim (1858–1927). Stonemason : F. Hofmeister Knoth trout Kramer
Grave of the Müller family 1898 Neo-Renaissance sandstone , stonemason: unknown Fam. Müller
Grave of the couple Hermann and Elisabeth Bückling 1899 Grave stele, Hermann Bückling (1853–1938), owner of the company Bückling & Baum, Maschinenfabrik und Mühlenbauanstalt, Solmsstrasse 17, Frankfurt-Bockenheim, as well as a recognized Frankfurt amateur photographer. Steinmetz: Becker, 1891 Spouses H. + E. Kippers
Grave of the Sperl family NN Senator Dr. med. hc Ministerialrat AD Friedrich Sperl , economic manager in the resistance against Hitler and committed promoter of culture and science. In 1968 the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main donated the Friedrich Sperl Prize (Prize for the Promotion of the Humanities), which honors outstanding work by young historians. Its doping is z. Currently 2,500 euros. His wife Lydia Sperl (* February 25, 1906; † February 23, 1992) came from the German-Russian family of the Barons von Falz-Fein, who were related by marriage to the family of the writer Vladimir Nabokov and the composer Nicolas Nabokov . Lydia Sperl's father Eduard Falz-Fein was the brother of Friedrich von Falz-Fein , who himself was a German-Russian landowner and founder of the Askanija-Nowa nature reserve (Russian Аскания-Нова, Ukraine). Stonemason: unknown Grave of the Sperl family

Web links

Commons : Neuer Friedhof Frankfurt-Bockenheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neuer Friedhof Bockenheim at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the city of Frankfurt am Main
  2. ^ City of Frankfurt am Main: The cemetery guide . First edition, Mammut-Verlag (ed.), Frankfurt 2012, p. 124 f.
  3. ^ Marie-Luise Latsch: Bockenheimer Strasse telling, 2006, ISBN 3-86611-152-5 , page 73, 182, 183
  4. ↑ Günther Moos: Guide to the grave sites of well-known personalities in Frankfurt cemeteries, 2003, page 42
  5. ↑ Volker Rödel: Monument topography: The Frankfurt district cemeteries, ISBN 978-3-921606-61-2 , as of 2006, pages 12–35