Neustädter Friedhof (Hanover)

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View over the cemetery and today's park to the Conti high-rise

The Neustädter Friedhof in Hanover , operated from 1646 to 1876, is a listed public park on Königsworther Platz with several important grave monuments .

history

The first cemetery in Calenberger Neustadt was built in 1610, but had to be abandoned because of the expansion of the city fortifications. In 1646 the new cemetery was built outside the city wall on the road to Nienburg. It was consecrated as St. Andrew's cemetery on “ St. Andrea's Day” (November 30th) . Initially only intended for the citizens of Neustadt, members of the ducal court were later buried here. The cemetery was enlarged several times, but closed in 1876 after the Engesohde city cemetery was built. After the air raids on Hanover in World War II , the area of ​​the cemetery was reduced to accommodate the administration of the Continental AG ( Conti-Hochhaus , today University of Hanover ) and the widening of Otto-Brenner-Strasse. Numerous gravestones also suffered from increasing air pollution.

After the expansion of the tram lines 4/5 in the direction of Garbsen / Stöcken and the construction of the Königsworther Platz in its current form, the area surrounding the cemetery was also redesigned. In front of the cemetery, on the edge of the square, the five granite sculptures Etude I to V by the sculptor Eugène Dodeigne found their place as part of the Hanover Sculpture Mile .

Funerary monuments (selection)

The cemetery in spring during the Scilla bloom
  1. Heinrich Marschner (1795–1861), royal court music director in Hanover, important opera composer
  2. Anna Margaretha Borcherdings (1702–1716): According to legend, the so-called laced virgin died of too tight a waist
  3. Christoff Münster (1632–1676), the tall Christoff was ducal doorkeeper of 2.48 m height, came from Varlose near Göttingen
  4. Johann Gerhard Helmcke (1750–1824), master baker and grain master, was one of the richest citizens of the city around 1800. In 1810 he bought Herrenhäuser Allee for 1,336 Louis d'or and thus saved it from being deforested by French troops. His stand is decorated with a pretzel as a craft symbol.
  5. Hammet and Hasan († 1691), captured in 1683 off Vienna during the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna and used as lackeys for Electress Sophie . The “Turkish graves” are the last witnesses of the Turkish wars in which the Hanoverian troops took part in the 17th century outside Vienna. They are among the oldest known and preserved graves of so-called looted Turks in Germany.
  6. Wassily Gawrilow (1785–1813), Russian Cossack officer , in 1946 a plate was added to the grave that translated the Cyrillic inscription.
  7. Ernst Brandes (1758–1810), writer and politician, cabinet counselor
  8. Tombs of the Bahlsen family , a. a. of the grandfather of the company founder Hermann Friedrich Bahlsen: Anton Georg Eberhard Bahlsen (1781–1874)
  9. Johann Stieglitz (1767-1840), Royal personal physician of Jewish origin, Tomb of Laves designed
  10. Johann Georg Zimmermann (1728–1795), elector's personal physician, writer ( On loneliness ), acquainted with Goethe
  11. Georg Wilhelm Glünder (1799–1848), technical director of the Polytechnic School (together with Karl Karmarsch commercial director). In addition to a gear wheel, square measure and compass, the stand shows the Pythagorean theorem as a geometric representation.
  12. Friedrich August Christian Eisendecher (1784–1842), head of the General Tax Fund of the Kingdom of Hanover and first resident of Villa Rosa
  13. Jean von L'Estocq (1647–1732), French doctor, ancestor of the German noble family von Lestocq and court surgeon from the Elector of Hanover

Others

See also

literature

  • Arnold Nöldeke : The art monuments of the province of Hanover. 1: Hanover district. Issue 2: City of Hanover . Part 1: Monuments of the "old" city area of ​​Hanover. Hanover 1932. Reprint: Osnabrück: Wenner 1979, pp. 255-257, ISBN 3-87898-151-1
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Red.): Kulturring, magazine of the cultural associations in Hanover , 57th year, issue 10 (1980)
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein: From Hanover's old cemeteries. In: Stories about Hanover's churches. Studies, pictures, documents , ed. by Hans Werner Dannowski and Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hanover: Lutherhaus-Verlag 1983, pp. 97-102 (also about the Neustädter Friedhof), ISBN 3-87502-145-2
  • Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Hannover art and culture lexicon , manual and city guide . 3rd, rev. Edition Hanover: Schäfer 1995, pp. 158–159.
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Neustädter Friedhof, St. Andreas Friedhof. 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. 467f.
  • Henrike Schwarz and others: The St. Nikolai cemetery and the Neustädter cemetery ,
    • Brochure , ed. from the state capital Hanover, Department of Environment and Urban Greenery , Hanover 2003, free of charge from the FB, Langensalzastr. 17, 30169 Hanover, or
    • online as PDF - Document (2.4 MB)

Web links

Commons : Neustädter Friedhof (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfennig: The northern suburban development. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 1, vol. 10.1 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 80; and Brühlstrasse. In: middle , annex to vol. 10.2: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 (NDSchG) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover , p. 3.
  2. ↑ Dirk Böttcher : Laced Virgin. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 218
  3. ↑ Source: PDF document of the city of Hanover ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. ; 2.4 MB, accessed December 5, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hannover.de
  4. ↑ see History of Islam in Germany
  5. ↑ see this photograph of the double grave as well as individual references in the article on Eisendecher
  6. ^ L'Estocq, Jean von in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library , edited on February 16, 2016, last accessed on April 16, 2016
  7. ↑ Photo index photo Marburg : Tomb of Friedrich Ludwig Arnold Taberger (1739-1810) and wife (1796-1785?) , Last accessed on July 26, 2012

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 41 ″  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 32 ″  E