Park Cemetery Essen
The municipal park cemetery is located in Essen 's Huttrop district and forms the largest contiguous cemetery area in the city. Two years after construction began, it was put into operation in 1925.
history
The park cemetery covers an area of 40.46 hectares. It consists of an old and a new part, each with a mourning hall. The old mourning hall, designed by the architect and Essen alderman Ernst Bode (1878–1944) partly in a conservative, partly in a modern style from the 1920s, was entered in the list of monuments of the city of Essen in 1989. The old part of the cemetery as a whole has also been a listed building since 1989 .
In 1941 about 36 tombstones from the former Jewish cemetery in Lazarettstrasse in Essen's west quarter were transferred to the Jewish cemetery in the southwest of the park cemetery .
War graves
A total of 2045 victims of the Second World War lie on four grave fields in the park cemetery . 86 German soldiers and 1,502 civilians are buried in the first field, 52 concentration camp victims in the second, 405 prisoners of war and forced laborers of various nationalities in the third and 213 Soviet prisoners of war, who perished between 1941 and 1945, rest in the fourth cemetery .
Honor graves
In the cemetery there are two honorary graves of the city of Essen, that of the
- Lord Mayor and Federal President Gustav Heinemann and that of the
- Founder Claire Hennes.
Buried personalities
- Christine Hengst (1897–1966) - first school councilor in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Heinrich Imbusch (1878–1945) - trade union leader, member of the Reichstag, Essen city councilor
- Karl Imhoff (1876–1965) - civil engineer; shared grave of the Schmidt-Imhoff families, together with
- Robert Schmidt (1869–1934) - urban planner and first association director of the Ruhr coal district settlement association
- Edmund Körner (1874–1940) - architect
- Max Prüß (1888–1962) - construction director
- Adolf Wagner (1911–1984) - weightlifter
Tomb under monument protection
In July 2018, the tomb of the Johann and Elisabeth Goldkuhle family, geb. Willemsen entered the list of monuments of the city of Essen. The grave sculpture from 1929 has stood since 1932 in a place of special visual importance on a roundabout, which you walk straight to from the main entrance.
See also
- List of cemeteries in Essen
- List of war cemeteries
- Interactive map of the city of Essen with markings of honorary and other graves etc.
literature
- City of Essen: The cemetery guide . Leipzig: Mammut-Verlag 2006.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ City of Essen, Der Friedhofswegweiser , p. 52
- ↑ Press releases from the city of Essen: 100th birthday of Claire Hennes
- ↑ Goldkuhle tomb in the list of monuments of the city of Essen ; accessed on March 14, 2020
Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 3 ″ N , 7 ° 2 ′ 55 ″ E