Bad Kissingen park cemetery
The 83,552 m² park cemetery Bad Kissingen is a cemetery complex in the Bavarian spa town of Bad Kissingen in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen .
The complex, which has been transformed into a forest cemetery over the years, will be converted back into the form of a park cemetery from 2000 .
history
When the Bad Kissingen chapel cemetery, which was first occupied in 1348, turned out to be too small, the first plans to build a new cemetery were made in 1871. From 1880 onwards, a 9,984 m² area for 2,300 graves was available on the Sinnberg .
However, the plans were not revived until 1932. In 1933, according to plans by city architect Josef Fischer, the construction of the park cemetery was started at the Sinnberg site, which was planned in 1880 and completed in 1936. The first part of the cemetery to be built was the forest section; in 1935 and 1936 the morgue and the cemetery keeper's apartment followed.
In 1936, Mayor Max Pollwein opened the park cemetery , the construction costs of which amounted to RM 330,000 and could be financed without taking on debt.
In 1951, a memorial for the expellees was erected at the main entrance to the cemetery . In addition, in the center of the park cemetery there is a memorial with graves of victims of the Second World War .
In 1976 and 1985 the park cemetery was expanded to the east. In 1983 the columbarium was built , around which a wall ring for further urn burials was built in 1999.
In July 2014 the “Himmelswiese”, a cemetery for miscarriages and stillbirths , was inaugurated in the park cemetery .
Gravesites
The following personalities were buried in the park cemetery (names in alphabetical order):
- Alexander Bogatschew (1889–1946), Russian archpriest, head of the Church of Sergius von Radonesch in Bad Kissingen
- Marina von Ditmar (1914–2014), German-Baltic theater and film actress
- Leonhard Ritter (1878–1938), architect
- Werner Schmidt (1925–2007), German composer and pianist
- Christian Zoll (1941–2017), politician, Mayor of Bad Kissingen from 1990–2002
literature
- The cemeteries in Bad Kissingen. In: Thomas Ahnert, Peter Weidisch (eds.): 1200 years Bad Kissingen, 801–2001, facets of a city's history. (= Festschrift for the anniversary year and volume accompanying the exhibition of the same name; special publication by the Bad Kissingen City Archives). Verlag TA Schachenmayer, Bad Kissingen 2001, ISBN 3-929278-16-2 , pp. 313-316.
Web links
- "Remembrance of transience" - article in the " Saale-Zeitung " of November 7, 2010 about the cemeteries in Bad Kissingen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sigismund von Dobschütz: "The" Himmelswiese "in the park cemetery - an area for stillborn children was set up in the park cemetery in Bad Kissingen." - "Saale-Zeitung" article from July 13, 2014
Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 29.3 ″ N , 10 ° 5 ′ 25.1 ″ E