Municipal cemetery (Bocholt)

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Design plan from 1904
Mourning hall from 1936

The municipal cemetery on Blücherstraße in Bocholt is a listed building in Bocholt in the Borken district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

History and architecture

The large complex with a strictly geometrical structure was designed in 1904 by city building officer Friedrich Hermann Kraatz and in the 1920s, under the direction of city building officer Wilhelm Brockhoff, it was landscaped, expanded and expanded several times in line with the original planning. In 1908 the new municipal cemetery replaced the old cemetery, which was later transformed into Langenbergpark . The core area is accessed by two diagonal avenues with linden trees and cut plane trees . At the crossroads there is a roundabout rising in terraces with graves for the fallen soldiers of the First and Second World Wars. Further to the east there is a place of honor for those who fell in World War II . The representative family graves are along the avenues and at the roundabout, they are separated from the row graves behind by box-shaped yew hedges .

The mourning hall was built in 1936 at the entrance, which was moved to the northwest. The building is a brick cube divided by oculi and tuff cornices . The two-storey porch is open in round arches. The administration wing connects to the rear.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 31.6 "  N , 6 ° 38 ′ 14.5"  E