New Niendorf cemetery

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Main path to the chapel
Entrance at Sootbörn

The New Niendorfer Friedhof is a Protestant cemetery in the Hamburg district of Niendorf . It has an area of ​​around 12.5 hectares with 19,200 graves on which around 1000 burials take place every year. The cemetery is located near the Niendorfer Marktplatz between the streets Garstedter Weg and Sootbörn, not far from one of the runways at Hamburg Airport .

history

In the churchyard around the market church , burials began around 1770. As early as 1847 this churchyard was expanded to the south and west by what is now known as the Alter Niendorfer Friedhof . This area, too, quickly became too small, and from 1900 the New Niendorfer Friedhof was built as an extension, where the first burials began in 1903. Burials take place in both cemeteries.

In 1906 the von Berenberg-Goßler family donated the octagonal chapel, which is based on the style of the market church. In return, the family was given the right to dispose of a path that was public until then, which led through their park (now part of the Niendorfer Gehege ). The chapel was completely renovated from 1997 to 1998.

Graves

In the cemetery there are classic row and urn graves as well as urn grave fields with a common memorial stone. On the northern edge of the site there is a so-called “coffin community facility”, which offers an area tended by the cemetery nursery behind a mourning place with a memorial wall, which enables a total of 83 burials in coffins.

In addition to the western path to the chapel, there is also a small field with museum-like sandstone steles from the early 19th century and a cemetery for dead from the time of World War II .

Well-known personalities who were buried in the cemetery are:

Photographs

  • Outline map of the cemetery

  • chapel

  • Friedel Hensch's grave

literature

  • Barbara Leisner, Norbert Fischer : The Cemetery Guide - Walks to known and unknown graves in Hamburg and the surrounding area. Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-7672-1215-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information board of the cemetery, as of the beginning of 2013
  2. ↑ Alma de l'Aigle's curriculum vitae on a gardening literature website. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
  3. ↑ Description of the Alma de l'Aigle garden on the website of the Stiftung Denkmalpflege Hamburg. Retrieved February 21, 2013.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 53 ° 37 ′ 3 ″  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 18 ″  E