Oranienburg city cemetery
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The Stadtfriedhof , also called the Städtischer Friedhof on some maps , is a cemetery in the center of the Brandenburg city of Oranienburg . With 6.65 hectares, it is the largest municipal cemetery with the most burials in the city.
history
The city cemetery was laid out at the beginning of the 19th century as an extension of the Protestant Nikolaifriedhof on Kremmener Straße. The exact boundary between the two cemeteries can no longer be determined with certainty after several extensions. The Jewish cemetery , which is now outside the cemetery grounds, was surrounded by the city cemetery in 1815. The current extension between Dr.-Kurt-Schumacher-Straße and Friedensallee was probably given to the city cemetery in 1950. The memorial hall with 45 seats was built in 1891 by the builder Lauter.
The cemetery is characterized by very old trees. On the site there are larger war graves from the First and Second World Wars and 44 heritage burial sites from the Wilhelminian era on the west wall and on the north wall.
Hereditary burial sites
The construction of the grave wall was built during the economic boom before the First World War . The first hereditary burial of the Wetzel family dates from 1883, the last one built in 1914. The majority of the hereditary burial sites are family graves of the then emerging Oranienburg upper class. Factory owners, teachers, landowners, doctors, higher officials, rich farmers and writers afforded these elaborate and expensive grave sites, which are noticeable due to their dimensions. Usually they are three and a half to six meters wide and up to three and a half meters high. The graves are distinguished by their stylistic diversity, in which Romanesque, Gothic and Classical forms were used, with which there was probably a competition for the most splendid grave site. Only a few grave sites are still used and maintained by the descendants today.
In 2000 the hereditary burial wall was placed under monument protection. At the same time, the civil engineering department of the city of Oranienburg launched the “Godparents wanted” campaign in order to preserve the heritage burial sites that are historically and artistically valuable for Oranienburg by awarding sponsorships . The sponsors undertake to renovate and maintain the selected site in accordance with the monument. In return, it is possible to use these unique grave sites as your own family grave site.
Graves of famous people
- Silvio Gesell (1862–1930), German businessman, financial theorist and social reformer
- Wilhelm Groß (1883–1974), German sculptor, printmaker and Protestant preacher
- Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (1794–1867), German chemist
- Fritz Skowronnek (1858–1939), German journalist and writer
Memorial and war cemeteries
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- For 1200 murdered prisoners of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp as well as around 75 forced laborers from several countries who are buried here.
- A memorial for 50 prisoners from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp .
- Memorial to the victims of the Stalinist internment camp, which existed from 1945 to 1950, whose mass graves were discovered in 1989 in the immediate vicinity of the National Socialist concentration camp. The number of mostly nameless dead is estimated at around 24,000. In 1993 the cemetery was redesigned.
- In the immediate vicinity of the mourning hall there is a memorial stone for the writer Erich Mühsam, who was murdered in Oranienburg concentration camp in 1934 . (Coordinates: 52 ° 44 ′ 54.2 ″ N , 13 ° 13 ′ 37.9 ″ E )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ City of Oranienburg: Der Friedhofswegweiser , 1st edition, Mammut-Verlag, September 2013
- ^ Oranienburg - Städtischer Friedhof on volksbund.de
Coordinates: 52 ° 44 ′ 51.7 ″ N , 13 ° 13 ′ 37.6 ″ E