Nordfriedhof (Kiel)

Nordfriedhof (Kiel): Tombs of soldiers killed in the First World War

The north cemetery , with 16 hectares the largest cemetery in the city of Kiel , was created in 1878 and includes the Kiel War Cemetery .

history

A garrison cemetery was opened in 1878 on the area of the former shooting range in what is now the Kiel-Ravensberg district . The entrance area has since been dominated by a chapel made of yellow brick.

In 1948, the federal government leased the cemetery grounds to the city of Kiel. In 1952 the "Kiel War Cemetery" was incorporated into the north cemetery. In 1961 the cemetery became the property of the city of Kiel. There are around 3,000 soldiers' graves in the cemetery. They testify to the development of Kiel as a naval base and former naval port.

In 1992 the cemetery was enlarged for the last time.

Naval and war memorials

War memorials

Iron Cross

The "Iron Cross", an obelisk, tomb for fallen soldiers of the Schleswig-Holstein army in the Schleswig-Holstein War (1848–1851) , was first located in the St. Jürgen cemetery . After its dissolution, it has been in the north cemetery since 1955.

An altar-like stone with an anchor on it commemorates the more than 30,000 fallen soldiers of the Imperial Navy in the First World War ; the anchor is said to come from the training ship Niobe (see below).

A large high cross commemorates the fallen of World War II . 209 Soviet prisoners of war are buried in field 13.

Memorial sites for individual ship crews

In the entrance area is the memorial and burial site for the victims of the Niobe school ship , which sank in 1932.

Between the memorial for the fallen soldiers of the Imperial Navy and the high cross stand three steles for the crews of the battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst as well as the heavy cruiser Lützow .

Honorary graves of high military personnel

Gottfried Hansen (Field Y, No. 216–217)
Hans von Koester (field A, no. 360–361)
Wilfried von Loewenfeld (Field V, No. 20)
Hugo Meurer (Field Y, No. 218–219)

Graves of famous people

Volkmar von Arnim , Admiral (field A)
Erwin Assmann , historian (field 10 A)
Fritz Baade , economist and politician (Field F)
Adalbert von Blanc , Flotilla Admiral (Field O)
Rolf Carls , General Admiral and District Administrator (Field M)
Georg Dahm , criminal lawyer and international lawyer (field A)
Erich Förste , Admiral (field 1)
Michael Freund , political scientist and historian (field 6)
Gustav Kieseritzky , Vice-Admiral
Wolfgang Link , soccer referee
Wilhelm Marschall , General Admiral (Field A)
Ernst Philipp , gynecologist (field 20 II)
Erich Raeder , Grand Admiral, Commander in Chief of the Navy (field X)
Martin Redeker , theologian and politician (field 6)
Heinrich Rendtorff , theologian (box 20 I)
Wilhelm Sievers , politician (field VAU)
Ludwig von Schröder , General (Field R)
Walter Warzecha , Admiral General, last Commander in Chief of the Navy (field 1)