Ricklingen city cemetery

New chapel

Entrance area

The Ricklingen city cemetery in Hanover was created in 1908 as the Linden main cemetery by the then city of Linden and is now part of the Oberricklingen district . The old chapel was built in 1910 according to plans by the Linden architect Carl Arend . The cemetery covers around 54 hectares with around 30,000 graves. A department for anonymous urn burials has existed since 1998.

history

At the end of the 19th century, Linden's population had increased significantly as a result of industrialization . In 1885 Linden was declared a city with 25,570 inhabitants . The three existing cemeteries, the Martinskirchhof , the Neu Linden cemetery and the Lindener Bergfriedhof , were no longer sufficient and could not be expanded. The city ​​council of Linden therefore decided in 1904 to set up a new large cemetery. For this purpose, a 17 hectare plot of land in the Ricklingen and Wettbergen districts on Göttinger Chaussee was acquired. The new cemetery was laid out under the direction of City Garden Inspector Johannes Balcke . On November 1, 1908, it was opened as the Linden main cemetery . With the incorporation of Linden to Hanover on January 1st, 1920, it was renamed Stadtfriedhof Ricklingen. After the Hannover-Seelhorst crematorium was opened, the first department for urn burials was created in 1924 due to the growing demand, which was later expanded into an urn grove. The old chapel, destroyed by the Second World War, was rebuilt in 1953; In 1964 it was decided to add a new chapel, which was to form a unit with the old chapel as a block made of light granite.

Graves of famous people

Wilhelm Hahn junior (1904–1975), social democratic resistance fighter Wilhelm Heese (1890–1933), victim of National Socialism Kurt Willkomm (1905–1933), resistance fighter against National Socialism Wilhelm Bluhm (1898–1942), resistance fighter against National Socialism Franz Nause (1903–1943), resistance fighter against National Socialism Kurt Schumacher (1895–1952), SPD party chairman

Georg Herting (1872–1951), sculptor Fritz Ahrberg (1866–1959), sausage entrepreneur Hans-Jürgen Krahl (1943–1970), student activist of the 1968 movement Heinrich Kreipe (1895–1976), major general in World War II August Holweg (1905–1989), Mayor of Hanover from 1956 to 1972

See also

• List of burial places of famous people
• Cemeteries in Hanover

literature

• Silke Beck, Cordula Wächtler, Klaus Helmer (Red.), Ella Weber: Stadtfriedhof Ricklingen. (with history, development, overview plan, published by the Green Area Office Hanover) Hanover 2002 (free brochure , also for download as a PDF document )

Web links

Commons : Stadtfriedhof Ricklingen (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ricklingen city cemetery on hannover.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Cordes burials: Stadtfriedhof Ricklingen. In: Hannover funeral. Accessed April 24, 2019 (German). 
2. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Hahn, (3) Wilhelm, jun. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 147; online through google books

Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ 56 ″  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 39 ″  E