North Cemetery (Dortmund)

View over the north cemetery to the hammer head tower of the Minister Stein colliery

The Nordfriedhof is a 19-hectare communal cemetery in the Eving district and in the catchment area of the city center-north (Nordstadt) district of Dortmund . The oldest grave is in field 1, where a memorial stone commemorates the first burial on November 25, 1897.

The construction of the cemetery became necessary after the enormous population growth had started with industrialization . The cemetery system became a communal task, among other things for hygienic reasons. Between 1893 and 1897 the Ostenfriedhof (also: Ostfriedhof), the Südwestfriedhof (also: Südfriedhof) and the Nordfriedhof were opened.

Individual objects are entered in the list of architectural monuments in the Eving district: cemetery building from 1898, memorial to commemorate the March riots in 1920 , memorial to commemorate the mining accident at the Kaiserstuhl colliery in 1920, memorial to commemorate the mining accident at the minister Stein colliery in 1925 and three Individual grave monuments.

Special tombs

Memorial to those who fell in March

War cemetery

Field 28: Nine dead of the armed resistance against the Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch are buried in a communal grave. After the "Erhardt Brigade" and others put in a coup against the Weimar Republic on March 13, 1920 , there were also clashes in Dortmund. In the fighting on March 15, a large crowd attempted to storm the town house. The police repulsed the attack, killing 13. The memorial stone was commissioned by the Dortmund KPD in 1929 and remained unaffected by National Socialism and the aftermath of the war. The “March fallen monument” is part of the route of industrial culture . It is listed in theme route 22 - Myth of the Ruhr Area .
Field 29: Community grave and memorial were created for the 31 miners who died in an accident on August 8, 1920 while exiting the Kaiserstuhl II shaft in the northern part of the city.
Field 33: The community grave was laid out for the 136 miners who died on February 11, 1925 in a firedamp explosion at the Minister Stein colliery. A memorial was erected in 1927 by the Dortmund sculptor Friedrich Bagdons .
Fields 42 and 48: In the war cemetery with the stone crosses, almost 300 bomb victims from the Second World War rest .
The Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge runs the Nordfriedhof as a war cemetery for 15 German war dead during the Second World War.