Schelffriedhof Schwerin

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Tomb for Ludwig Willebrand in the Schelffriedhof

The Schelffriedhof Schwerin of the Nikolaikirche (Schelfkirche) was a historical cemetery in the state capital of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Schwerin . In 1925 it was redesigned to a 1.5- hectare park and is known as a garden and landscape monument under the name Schelfpark .

location

Today's shelf Park located in the district Werdervorstadt north of Schelfstadt and the north by the camp road, the east by the Werderstraße , (B 104) to the south by the Knaudtstraße (B 104) and on the west by the former brewery on the banks of the brick interior lake limited .

history

The new Schelffriedhof was necessary for the residents of the Neustadt no later than 1772, when burials were no longer possible in the churchyard at the Schelfkirche. In a letter from September 1772 it says that the Schelf-Kirch-Hofe can no longer hold the many corpses, and already 2 or 3 are scratched over each other. Then in 1773 the arable land on the shelf was purchased .

After the surveying and mapping in 1777, the cemetery complex was still surrounded by a brick wall as God's field . On July 1, 1778, the first burial took place in the Schelfkirchhof. In June 1778 , the castle captain von der Lühe had submitted a rift for a house for storing cemetery equipment. But this draft was not carried out.

One year after commissioning there were already problems due to the excessively high groundwater. In 1786 the cemetery wall was removed again with the permission of the Duke. We approve ... that the beginning of the demolition of the Schelf-Kirch-Hofs-Wall this summer, the bricks and materials sold and the money to be redeemed for the paving of the Kirch Hof will be used, of which you are a special one Calculation.

The first enlargement of the cemetery took place in 1802, the second in 1831. Carl Theodor Severin, known for his bath buildings in Bad Doberan , submitted a beautification plan that was not favored by the town's citizens' committee. In 1840 the Schwerin court gardener and garden designer Theodor Klett presented a plan and cost estimate, which, however, showed unnecessary uses . The beautification proposals of the Schwerin cathedral cemetery gardener CAW Lobedanz were implemented in 1842. The cemetery was expanded further in 1881, 1883, 1897 and 1916. After the construction of the new cemetery on Galgenberg, today's Old Cemetery , the cathedral cemetery and the Schelffriedhof were closed in 1863. Burials were still permitted in exceptional cases, these concerned burials in grave chapels and places next to spouses. Further burials took place in the cemetery, as can be seen from the 1921 register of merchants' graves on the Schelffriedhof . 178 owners of shopping graves are included in the list. The burial chapels approved by the magistrate were demolished at the end of the 19th century. In 1920, the desire was expressed to transform it into a park that could be made accessible to the general public .

Jägerdenkmal, inaugurated in 1921, destroyed in 1945

On June 1, 1921, after a festive service in Schwerin Cathedral on the eastern side of the cemetery, opposite the Jäger Grenadier barracks at the time, the war memorial of the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Jäger Battalion No. 14 was inaugurated for those who fell in World War I. From November 1920, the preparation was headed by Lieutenant Colonel Freiherr von Schenk zu Schweinsberg. In the base of the memorial created by the sculptor Ernst Müller-Braunschweig , the memorial plaques for the individual companies with the numbers of the fallen were set. A total of 58 officers, 220 chief hunters and 1889 hunters. The stone carvings were carried out by the Schwerin masters C. Schäfer and Son.

The memorial was maintained by the Mecklenburg Hunter Association until 1945 and then destroyed. The granite plinth is still in the Schelfpark, a bit hidden in the wooded strip on Werderstrasse .

In 1924 the Nikolaikirche sold the cemetery to the city. In 1925 it was transformed into a park with a children's playground.

In 1950 the facility used as a park was again in poor condition. Some fenced areas were used as gardens. In 1951 two of the tombs remaining in the park were restored on behalf of the Schwerin Institute for Monument Preservation. The neo-Gothic tomb for the building conductor Ludwig Willebrand (1824–1853) received a new cover. His brother was the most Schwerin palace participated Hermann Willebrand . At the grave of the pastor of the Nikolaikirche Heinrich Alexander Seidel (1811–1861), father of the poet Heinrich Seidel , the damaged cast iron cross was removed and the grave was covered with a new granite slab. In 1979 there was still the gravestone of Heinrich von Plessen , royal chamberlain and captain in the army, b. July 18, 1824, d. January 1, 1859 available.

In 1984 an area was even used as a parking area by the adjacent brewery, the beverage combine.

The Schelfpark has been a garden and landscape monument of the city of Schwerin since 1986.

Gravestone of Christine von Brandenstein

Today there are nine tombs as memorial stones for Schwerin personalities in the park opposite the former Jäger grenadier barracks.

  • The tombstone for the von Brandenstein family was erected again in 2000.
    • August Georg v. Brandenstein, b. z. Wolfenbüttel d. May 27, 17 [55], d. Schwerin d. April 12, 1836, as Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Schwerinsche [r] Geheime [r] Raths President [and First Minister].
    • [his wife] Caroline v. Brandenstein, born v. Bassewitz, b. z. Hohen Luckow d. Dec. 25 [1765], killed on June 5, 1786, died June 4, 1827 .
    • [their eldest daughter] Sophie v. Brandenstein, b. z. Schwerin d. June 14, 1787, d. March 23, 1790 .
    • [Minister's sister] Christine v. Brandenstein, Grand Duke. Court lady of Schwerin, b. z. Wolfenbüttel d. Aug 21, 1757, d. Schwerin d. May 13, 1832 .
  • Two grave slabs of approx. Two by one meter (writing partially illegible).
    • Privy Councilor Johann Schumacher 11.2.1786, 5.11. 1835
    • Go Chamber Councilor Luise Schumacher, b. Schnell 03.10.1800, 06.05.1865
  • Two grave slabs measuring one meter by two meters (writing no longer legible) and a beveled sandstone base with a cross (inscription knocked out).
    • Dr. Jur. Carl Anton Wilhelm Beste († 1855).
  • Gravestone for Ludwig Willebrand (weathered, writing partly illegible)
    • Ludwig Willebrand, building manager, b. d. August 18, 1821, d. July 23, 1853.
  • rectangular sandstone plinth, one meter high, (writing illegible).
  • Granite slab measuring one meter by two meters (writing illegible).
    • Heinrich Alexander Seidel February 2, 1811, January 30, 1861, pastor at St. Nicolai in Schwerin .

The park with its remaining nine tombs, some of whose inscriptions are no longer legible, was renovated in 1998 according to historical models and is now in a well-tended condition.

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  • State Church Archive Schwerin
    • Oberkirchenrat, Specialia Object File Cemetery, former Schelffriedhof.
  • Schwerin City Archives
    • Dept. FM. File No. 30. Burial ground in the New Town.
  • State Office for Culture and Preservation of Monuments, Department of Archeology and Preservation of Monuments.
    • Object file Schwerin, cemetery, former shelf cemetery.

literature

  • Dieter Zander : The Schwerin Schelfstadt - on the urban development of the baroque Neustadt. Schwerin series, Schwerin 1984.
  • Horst Ende: Historic cemeteries. Silent witnesses made of earth and stone. Schweriner Volkszeitung / Mecklenburg Magazin, 1991, No. 23.
  • Norbert Crede: A special ... under our protection of a newly grown city. The founding of Schwerin Neustadt 300 years ago. In: Mecklenburgisches Jahrbuch 120 (2005) pp. 57–85.
  • Birgid Holz: Schwerin old cemetery. In: Bund Heimat und Umwelt in Deutschland. Historic cemeteries in Germany. Bonn 2007.
  • Katja Pawlak: From the cemetery to the city park. The former Neustadt cemetery is now a listed park In: Schweriner Volkszeitung / Mecklenburg Magazin, 2007, No. 13.
  • Katja Pawlak: The Schwerin Shelf Park. From the Neustadt cemetery to the garden monument. In: KulturERBE ​​in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. Volume 4. Schwerin 2009. ISBN 978-3-935770-27-9 . Pp. 97-110.

Web links

Commons : Schelfpark  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Office for Culture and the Preservation of Monuments, Department of Archeology and Preservation of Monuments. Object file Schwerin, cemetery. Former shelf cemetery.
  2. ↑ State Church Archives Schwerin, OKR, Specialia Schwerin St. Nikolai No. 80.
  3. ^ Schwerin City Archives : Dept. MF. File No. 30, files relating to the Neustadt burial ground. therein: Map of the Nikolaikirchhof in Schwerin.
  4. ↑ a b Katja Pawlak: The Schwerin Shelf Park. 2009 p. 98.
  5. ↑ LKAS, OKR, Specialia Schwerin St. Nikolai No. 81.
  6. ↑ LKAS, OKR, Specialia, Schwerin St. Nicolai, no. 82, cost estimate for the regulation and beautification of the New Town cemetery in Schwerin. Theodor Klett 1840.
  7. ^ Katja Pawlak: The Schwerin Shelf Park. 2009 p. 104.
  8. ↑ LKAS, OKR, Specialia Schwerin St. Nikolai No. 83.
  9. ^ SAS, Dept. MF. File No. 30.
  10. ↑ List of monuments, fountains and sculptures in Schwerin
  11. ↑ Erika Will: Monument for the hunters. In: SVZ Schwerin 1997, MM No. 18.
  12. ↑ Katja Pawlak: Monuments for those killed in the First World War. In: Military cemeteries and war cemeteries in the state capital Schwerin. 2012 pp. 57–60.
  13. ↑ LAKD / AD, object file Schwerin, cemetery. Former shelf cemetery.
  14. ^ Institute for Monument Preservation Schwerin: Note on the Schelffriedhof. June 1979.
  15. ↑ List of cultural monuments in Schwerin
  16. ↑ Hamburger has been looking after his "godchildren" in the Schelfpark schwerin-news.de for years
  17. ^ Institute for Monument Preservation Schwerin: Note on the Schelffriedhof. June 1979.
  18. ^ Institute for Monument Preservation Schwerin: Note on the Schelffriedhof. June 1979.
  19. ^ Institute for Monument Preservation Schwerin: Note on the Schelffriedhof. June 1979.
  20. ↑ The tombs in the Schelfpark were inspected on June 20, 2014, and the inscriptions that still exist were copied.

Coordinates: 53 ° 38 ′ 17.1 "  N , 11 ° 25 ′ 21.7"  E