Southwest Cemetery Dortmund

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Monument: administrator's house from 1893
Monument: war cemetery with obelisk
Monument: Cremer family mausoleum from 1926
Monument: Grave site of the Benkhoff family from 1918
Gravestone Wagner
Franz Jacobi grave
R. Huelsenbeck's tomb, photographed at the Dada Festival in Dortmund on his 125th birthday and the 100th anniversary of Dada

The Südwestfriedhof is a communal cemetery on the edge of the Kreuzviertel in the city ​​center-west district . It is officially listed as the Südfriedhof by the city of Dortmund. The term Südwestfriedhof is much more common.

The cemetery was opened in 1893 for the abandoned Westfriedhof (also Westentotenhof) in today's Westpark and is still in operation. In the 1980s, a citizens' initiative was able to avert plans by the city to close the southwest cemetery near the residential area in favor of large cemeteries.

The administrator's house from 1893, the memorial stone for the first burial on August 23, 1893 and 35 individual grave monuments are entered in the list of architectural monuments in the city center-west . The avenue of plane trees made up of 60 trees is entered in the "Directory of Natural Monuments in Dortmund".

In the southwest cemetery there is a war cemetery with an obelisk as a central "memorial for the 523 victims of the First World War ."

The Südwestfriedhof is the eponym for the statistical sub-district 012 in the statistical district Westfalenhalle .

By Gerd Niebaum , former president of Borussia Dortmund , the sentence is handed down: "All the indispensable people lying on the Southwest cemetery of Dortmund or in any other city. And suddenly the world goes on. "

Buried personalities

  • Fita Benkhoff (born November 1, 1901 in Dortmund, † October 26, 1967 in Munich), stage and film actress (family tomb)
  • Mathias "Mat" Bigge (born September 10, 1955 in Dortmund; † April 17, 2012 in Dortmund), educator, photographer, non-fiction author, cultural politician
  • Josef Wilhelm Julius Cremer (born March 3, 1845 in Lüdinghausen; † January 1, 1938 in Dortmund), businessman, owner of the Thier brewery (family grave, also mausoleum)
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Feldhoff (born April 6, 1907 in Dortmund; † November 8, 1975 in Dortmund), civil engineer, founder of the Heinrich Feldhoff Foundation in the city ​​district of Innenstadt-Nord (family grave)
  • Erich Grisar (born September 11, 1898 in Dortmund, † November 30, 1955 in Dortmund), writer ("worker writer"), librarian
  • Theo Hengesbach (born July 15, 1954 in Altenhellefeld, Sauerland; † November 15, 2009 in Dortmund), social worker (Kreuzviertel-Gemeinwesen-Verein), co-founder of the Federal Working Group on Housing Adaptation and the State Working Group on Housing Advice for Older People
  • Hilbert Homberg (* 1931 in Dortmund; † August 11, 2013 in Dortmund), businessman, jazz musician, co-founder of the Hot Club Dortmund , co-founder of the Siggi Gerhard-Swingtett
  • Richard Huelsenbeck (born April 23, 1892 in Frankenau; † April 20, 1974 in Muralto, Switzerland), doctor, writer, co-founder of Dadaism (family grave)
  • Fritz Hüser (born October 4, 1908 in Heißen; † March 4, 1979 in Dortmund), librarian, founder of today's Fritz Hüser Institute , co-founder of the Dortmund Group 61
  • Franz Jacobi (born July 20, 1888 in Dortmund; † February 13, 1979 in Salzgitter), co-founder and honorary chairman of the Borussia Dortmund football club (relocated from Salzgitter in 2013)
  • Wilhelm Kaiser (born February 20, 1877 in Medebach, † August 24, 1961 in Dortmund), politician, honorary citizen of the city of Dortmund
  • Heinz Kwiatkowski (born July 16, 1926 in Gelsenkirchen; † May 23, 2008 in Dortmund), 1952–1966 football player (goalkeeper) at Borussia Dortmund , German champion 1956 and 1957, world champion 1954
  • Lambert Lensing (born November 14, 1889 in Dortmund, † April 25, 1965 in Dortmund), newspaper publisher (Ruhr-Nachrichten), co-founder of the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia (family grave)
  • Wilhelm Opländer (born July 11, 1901 in Dortmund; † February 6, 1984 in Dortmund), engineer, founder and namesake of the pump manufacturer WILO (family grave)
  • Heinz Pohlschröder (born May 9, 1899 in Dortmund; † March 12, 1977 in Dortmund), owner of the safe and steel furniture manufacturer Pohlschröder (family grave)
  • Willi Steinbach (born January 18, 1931 in Dortmund, † December 21, 2011 in Dortmund), politician (SPD), former district chairman of the Dortmund-Innenstadt-West district
  • Heinrich Oswald Wagner (born June 22, 1836 in Chemnitz; † May 28, 1918 in Dortmund), designer, founder of the machine tool factory Wagner & Co. (today Thyssen Maschinenbau Wagner Dortmund)
  • Jürgen "Kalle" Wiersch (born August 27, 1958 in Bochum; † July 29, 2014 in Dortmund), educator, author (slam poet), musician, performer

Web links

Commons : Südwestfriedhof Dortmund  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Dortmund: Cemeteries downtown west / south cemetery
  2. ↑ City of Dortmund: Natural monuments directory ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dortmund.de
  3. ^ Sites of Memory: Cemetery for World War One dead in Dortmund
  4. ^ "President away" Berliner Zeitung of June 4, 1997, accessed on October 2, 2014.
  5. ↑ Stöckelschuh, Dortmund city tours on women's history: Fita Benkhoff
  6. ^ Brewery experience Dortmund, Dortmund brewer: Cremer
  7. ^ "Leave millions behind and the grave goes to ruin" , Westfälische Rundschau, Dortmund edition, August 19, 2007, accessed on July 30, 2014
  8. ↑ Erich Grisar in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
  9. ↑ Theo Hengesbach is dead. In: Westfälische Rundschau. Dortmund edition, November 16, 2009, accessed August 19, 2014.
  10. ^ Relatives and friends say goodbye to Hilbert Homberg. In: Der Westen from August 19, 2013, accessed on August 20, 2014.
  11. ↑ “BVB founder Franz Jacobi buried in Dortmund” Westfälische Rundschau, Dortmund edition, July 27, 2013, accessed on August 19, 2014.
  12. ↑ City of Dortmund commemorates City Councilor Dr. Wilhelm Kaiser ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dortmund.de
  13. ↑ "Football legend Heinrich Kwiatkowski is also buried in the Südwestfriedhof" Local Compass City-Dortmund, "Culture tip for a walk on the day of the gardens", June 7, 2013, accessed on August 20, 2014.
  14. ↑ One hundred years of Pohlschröder . In: The time . No. 46 , November 17, 1955, pp. 1 ( zeit.de ).
  15. ^ SPD mourns. Willi Steinbach has died. In: Ruhr-Nachrichten , Dortmund edition, December 23, 2011, accessed on August 19, 2014
  16. ↑ Jürgen Wiersch (1958–2014). In: bodo from August 4, 2014, accessed on October 2, 2014

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 0.3 ″  N , 7 ° 26 ′ 50.2 ″  E