Nienstedten cemetery

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The Nienstedtener Friedhof is a cemetery in Hamburg . It was buried for the first time in 1814. After several extensions, the cemetery now has a size of 10.5 hectares.

location

The cemetery is located on the Elbchaussee near the Nienstedten Church in Nienstedten , now a district of Hamburg.

history

The cemetery was laid out in 1814 in the then common geometric style. In the early 19th century, Nienstedten was the ecclesiastical center of a large area which at that time included Blankenese , Dockenhuden , Klein Flottbek , Groß Flottbek , Osdorf , Sülldorf , Rissen and Schenefeld . With the exception of Schenefeld, all of these former villages now belong to Hamburg. Initially, burials were carried out separately by location. Some communities later became independent in Blankenese and Groß Flottbek, creating their own cemeteries.

In 1911 today's waiting room was built, a building with four columns in the access area. Small funeral services were also held in it if the celebration was not planned in the church. The cemetery chapel (architect: Kurt Stoltenberg, Altona) was inaugurated in 1929 and extensively renovated in 1995.

The growth of the communities made it necessary to expand the cemetery area again and again. So far, a total of 11 extensions have taken place between 1836 and most recently 1974/75.

memorial

memorial

The Hamburg sculptor Richard Luksch created the memorial to the First World War in 1920 . Right next to it there is a smaller memorial in honor of those who fell in World War II . There are no war graves, apart from the burials of the fallen in family graves.

Graves

Graves of well-known families and personalities and grave monuments of artistic and cultural history can be found in large numbers in the cemetery. The artistically designed graves of the Bruhn family (the grave is adorned by a very filigree large angel) or the Eduard Cords family grave (a tomb made of black stones in a stepped construction) or the grave cross of the family grave of the Altona senator, created according to the Celtic model, are to be emphasized Alexander Baur .

  • A. Baur's grave

  • Bruhn family grave

  • Cammann family grave

  • Eduard Cords

Mausoleums and tombs

There are three mausoleums , two small ones and the large mausoleum of Rudolph Freiherr von Schröder (see under Schröder Gebrüder & Co. ) on the site. Although no mausoleums, the large crypt of Caspar Freiherr von Vogth , the modern crypt of Hans Henny Jahnn and the family crypt of George Heinrich Hesse should also be mentioned . The latter is now completely overgrown by ivy and is therefore hardly noticeable.

  • Mausoleum Rudolph Freiherr von Schröder ( → location )

  • anonymous mausoleum
    ( → location )

  • Hänisch mausoleum
    ( → Lage )

  • Hans Henny Jahnn's crypt
    ( → location )

Personalities

Wilhelm Hagenbeck

After the Ohlsdorf cemetery , the Nienstedten cemetery is the Hamburg person with the most graves. Here is a selection:

Personalities with political influences:

Merchants and industrialists:

Carl Wohlenberg
  • Alfred Percy Hesse - co-owner and last bearer of the name Hesse in Hesse Newman & Co.
  • Caesar Darboven - Managing Director (second generation) of JJ Darboven († 1952)
  • Arthur Darboven - Managing Director (second generation) of JJ Darboven († 1954)
Robert Eduard Loesener
  • Robert Eduard Loesener - Shipowner († 1960)
  • Ernst Emil Jung - Shipowner († 1976)
  • Willy Bruns - Shipowner († 1998)
  • Wilhelm Hagenbeck - circus director, brother of Carl Hagenbeck († 1910)
  • Alfred Zeise - inventor of the Zeise screw , a highly efficient ship 's propeller († 1922)
  • Emil Langer - founder and builder of the Hotel Reichshof († 1928)
  • Franz Andreas Harry - bread manufacturer (see Harry bread ). However, it is located in the Diebsteich cemetery in Hamburg-Altona. His wife Johanna was buried in Nienstedten. A plaque commemorates Franz Andreas Harry.
  • Rolf H. Dittmeyer - German entrepreneur, known for Valensina († 2009)

Artists and actors:

John Theodor L. Essberger
Hans Mahler and Heidi Kabel
Franz Rudnick's grave

Architects:

Further:

Nienstedten Church

Today's church, inaugurated on May 16, 1751, is the sixth church building since the first documentary mention of "Kerspel Nigenstede" in 1297. This stretched from Ottensen in the east to Wedel / Schulau in the west, and Rellingen in the north . The villages of Klein- and Groß Flottbek , Osdorf , Lurup , Schenefeld , Dockenhuden , Mühlenberg , Blankenese , Tinsdal , Sülldorf , and Rissen , as well as the Elbe islands of Finkenwerder and Griesen- or Goriswerder , belonged to the parish of Nienstedten .

literature

  • Werner Johannsen: Who they were where they rest. A guide to notable graves at the Nienstedten cemetery. Heinevetter, Hamburg 1992 ISBN 3-929171-22-8 .
  • 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 .
  • Gerd Otto-Rieke: Graves in Hamburg , 1st edition. Alabasta Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-938778-10-4 .
  • Tilmann Präckel, Hella Kemper (Hrsg.): Garden of memory. 200 years of Nienstedten cemetery 1814–2014. Klaas Jarchow Media, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-040866-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article about Martin R. Jenisch in the Hamburger Abendblatt  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.abendblatt.de  
  2. ↑ See Hans-Jürgen Benedict : Visit to the grave of Dorothee Sölle (1929-2003)

Web links

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

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 15 ″  N , 9 ° 50 ′ 30 ″  E