Fossefeld district cemetery

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Lined up tombstones of the same type with the war symbolism of the Iron Cross for fallen soldiers

The Fossefeld district cemetery in Hanover , also known as the Fossefeld municipal cemetery or garrison cemetery , is a former military cemetery that was laid out in the 19th century and was also used by the local population of the (now) Hanoverian district of Limmer for the burial of their relatives. The site of the listed cemetery complex with its approx , 3  hectare area and numerous war graves and memorials is the Friedhofstraße at the corner of Limmerstraße between the junction of the Wunstorfer Straße and the brook Fosse .

history

Information board "District cemetery Fossefeld"
Information board " Victims of NS - Wehrmacht Justice "
The “ Disobedience ” memorial by Almut and Hans-Jürgen Breuste was inaugurated on May 9, 2015

When the Kingdom of Hanover was annexed by Prussia in 1866 after the Battle of Langensalza , the Prussian Military Riding School was relocated from Schwedt / Oder to the former residence city of Hanover under the new name of the Military Riding Institute that same year . Just two years later, today's district cemetery in Fossefeld was laid out in 1868 as a burial place for the members of the Prussian garrisons stationed in Hanover .

After the First World War , during the Weimar Republic around 1920, the northern area was extended and a new chapel was added .

During the Second World War, soldiers who had been convicted of disobedience ( deserters , disruptors and self-mutilators) and executed in Hanover were also buried here. This is now documented for 46 soldiers. Supported by the Department of Culture of the City of Hanover, teaching materials for school lessons have been created that take this part of the history and importance of the Fossefeldfriedhof into account.

In 1971 the cemetery was decommissioned. Since then, burials have only taken place in previously acquired graves. Since the war graves have a perpetual right to rest, the cemetery will be permanently preserved as a memorial.

Literature and media coverage

  • Ralf Buchterkirchen: "... and if you put me against the wall". Desertion, destruction of military strength and "war betrayal" by soldiers in and from Hanover 1933 - 1945. Neustadt am Rübenberge 2011: AK Region and History. ISBN 978-3-930726-16-5
  • Ralf Buchterkirchen: "You don't need to be ashamed of my execution ...". Disobedient soldiers in Hanover 1933–1945. Neustadt am Rübenberge 2020: AK region and history. ISBN 978-3-930726-34-9
  • Gerda Valentin: Wehrmacht deserters buried in the Fossefeld cemetery / 840 graves are hidden behind a simple wall in the Fossefeld cemetery, most of which are of military origin. Soldiers who were shot for “ deserting ” or “ sabotage ” during World War II also rest in the Fossefeld cemetery . The former Lieutenant Colonel Werner Trolp has now published an extensive article in the Hannoversche Geschichtsbl Blätter . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) from February 10, 2011, updated on February 11, 2012; on-line
  • Rüdiger Meise: Difficult history lesson at the Fossefeld cemetery / 43 deserters are buried in the cemetery at Fossefeld in Limmer . Young people should learn something about the Nazi era here - but no one has come so far. In: HAZ of May 16, 2012; on-line

See also

Web links

Commons : Stadtfriedhof Fossefeld  - Collection of images

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann names the year 1877 as the date when the cemetery was established in the DTBD volume published in 1985

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Peter Schulze : Friedhöfe. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 193-196; here: p. 195.
  2. ^ Lower Saxony Yearbook for State History: Organ of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony in Hanover , Volume 73, p. 513; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ a b Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Friedhofstrasse. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover (DTBD), part 2, vol. 10.2, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 159; and Limmer in the addendum : List of architectural monuments according to § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications of the Institute for Monument Preservation , p.
  4. ↑ Compare the location map 7, 30 Limmer. In: DTBD , p. 48f.
  5. ^ Hugo Thielen : cavalry school. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 343
  6. ↑ Ralf Buchterkirchen: "You don't need to be ashamed of my execution ...". Disobedient soldiers in Hanover 1933–1945. Neustadt am Rübenberge 2020: AK region and history. ISBN 978-3-930726-34-9
  7. ↑ Ralf Buchterkirchen: "You don't need to be ashamed of my execution ...". Disobedient soldiers in Hanover 1933–1945. Neustadt am Rübenberge 2020: AK region and history. P. 4 ISBN 978-3-930726-34-9
  8. ↑ Ralf Buchterkirchen: "You don't need to be ashamed of my execution ...". Disobedient soldiers in Hanover 1933–1945. Neustadt am Rübenberge 2020: AK region and history. ISBN 978-3-930726-34-9
  9. ^ Friedrich Cordes burials: District cemetery Fossfeld. Accessed April 2, 2019 (German).

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 26.8 "  N , 9 ° 41 ′ 47.3"  E