Stadtfriedhof Stöcken

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General view of the main entrance

The Stadtfriedhof Stöcken (or Stöckener Friedhof ) is a municipal cemetery of the city of Hanover in the Stöcken district . It was opened in 1891 as the second city cemetery (after the Engesohde city cemetery in 1864) and expanded in several steps over the next few decades. Today the cemetery covers 55 hectares and 170,000 people have been buried here since 1891. There are graves of prominent people in the cemetery, including the Prime Minister of Lower Saxony Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf and the Madsack family of publishers . The remains of the victims of serial killer Fritz Haarmann were also buried here.

history

Chapel at the main entrance
Sunflower field in front of the historic wall along Stöckener Strasse
The sea

The first construction phase with a strictly rectangular grid was designed in 1889-92 by city architect Paul Rowald and his colleague Adolf Narten . This area is cut diagonally from the main entrance by a main avenue. The neo-Gothic chapel at the main entrance was not completed until a year after the cemetery was opened; it was also designed by Paul Rowald and Adolf Narten. Garden director Julius Trip (1857–1907) was responsible for the first expansion of the cemetery . It took place in the second construction phase by the horticultural technician Ludwig Schiebler in the years 1901-02. He laid out the park-like western section with rhododendron bushes and the pond on which water lilies can be found today.

Based on the model of the Ohlsdorfer Friedhof in Hamburg, he laid out the western section grouped around a pond in swampy terrain as a park cemetery. Today this area is characterized by tall trees, rhododendron bushes and curved paths. In the sections A 30 and A 17 (on the east and south bank of the pond) you will find some of the artistically most remarkable grave monuments. A wooden bridge leads over a narrow part of the pond. A romantic urn island (Section A 33) was laid out on its east side.

The third cemetery expansion took place in the north in the years 1913-18 under city gardening director Hermann Kube (he also created the city hall garden and the city ​​cemetery Seelhorst ). Starting from the old Mittelallee, the area was symmetrically expanded. The resting places for the dead of the First and Second World War and the victims of the air raids on Hanover were later laid out in this area. The last enlargement and redesign took place in 1964/65 under gardening director Werner Lendholt . In the northeast part of the newest cemetery expansion there has been a department (59) for deceased Muslims since 1989.

A brochure from the City of Hanover's Green Spaces Office (see under literature) guides visitors on a tour of 16 selected graves through the cemetery. One of the two still existing cast-iron “Bödeker angels” is set up in the entrance area, designed by Georg Hurtzig around 1854 and cast in the Königshütte in Bad Lauterberg (Harz). The angel figures, of which there were once 15 in the city of Hanover, go back to the popular Hanoverian pastor Hermann Wilhelm Bödeker , who used them to carry out his collections for charitable purposes. The other angel can be found in the Engesohde city cemetery .

Grave sites (selection)

tour

In the brochure Stadtfriedhof Stöcken from 2009, the Hanoverian Department of Environment and Urban Greenery designed a tour with initially 27 stations:

  1. Emil Meyer (1841–1899) grave, grave architecture by Heinrich Köhler (Dept. 1, No. 1)
  2. Heinrich Schomburg grave site (first grave in the cemetery) (Section 3 E, No. 1)
  3. Carl Vering Mausoleum (Section 1, No. 35) and the Wehmer Mausoleum (Section 1, No. 39 a – f)
  4. Madsack grave site (1933 by Fritz Höger ) (Section 1, No. 64)
  5. Rechberg grave site (Section 7 C, No. 5)
  6. Honorary grave of Karl Pammler ( Section 12 G, No. 182)
  7. Hedwig Bollhagen's grave site (Dept. A 1, No. 33 a - b)
  8. Richard Wachsmuth grave site (Section A 17, No. 36)
  9. Grave site Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf (1893–1961), Prime Minister of Lower Saxony (Dept. A 23, No. 1, large boulder, on the south-west bank of the pond)
  10. Julius Trip grave site (Section A 25, No. 1)
  11. Julius L. Isenstein (1856–1929), Director of Dresdner Bank Hannover, and his wife Sophie (Dept. A 25, No. 8, at the pond near the bridge)
  12. Brandt-Primavesi burial site; Gustav Brandt (1847–1918), founder of the Gustav Brandt'schen Foundation (Dept. A 32, No. 24)
  13. Honorary grave of August Bremer (Section 57, No. 441)
  14. Honorary grave of Walter Höhn (Section A 29, No. 102)
  15. Graves of 14 victims of the Kapp Putsch of 1920 (Dept. 64 A, No. 1–13)
  16. Muslim burial ground (Dept. 59)
  17. Gravesite Wilhelm Henze (1845–1918), local poet (Dept. 59 A, No. 527)
  18. Hohmeyer grave (by Bernhard Hoetger ) (Section A 34, No. 6 a – d)
  19. Memorial for the victims of Fritz Haarmann . Inscription: "To the memory of our dear sons who died from September 1918 to July 1924" (Section 49 D, No. 189–192)
  20. Honorary grave of Otto Wilgeroth ( Section 42 EH, No. 25)
  21. Honorary grave of Heinrich Meister (1842–1906), SPD member of the Reichstag in Hanover-Linden. Inscription: "To the tireless champion for the rights of the proletariat" (Dept. 45 A, No. 13)
  22. Honorary grave Hiller (first name unknown, Section 44, No. 160)
  23. Honorary grave Nedderich (first name unknown, Dept. 41 C, No. 5)
  24. Honorary grave of Robert Leinert (1873–1940), first SPD mayor of Hanover (Dept. 44, No. 25)
  25. Grave of honor Willi Großkopf (Section 34 E, No. 43)
  26. Children's memorial (Section 14)
  27. Curt Emmrich gravesite ( Peter Bamm ) (1897–1975), writer (Section 32 D, No. 16)

Other well-known graves

  • Gravesite Alexander Dorner (1893–1957), art historian, curator at the State Museum, (Dept. A 28)
  • Grave complex for officers of the First World War, with a figure of a mourner (Dept. A 34)
  • Grave complex for the victims of the Second World War (Section 54)
  • Rheinhold family grave for the Reinhold family, including Otto Rheinhold (1855–1937), manufacturer, co-founder of the Hannover Werkheim (Dept. A 17, on the south-west bank of the pond), grave architecture by Hermann Schaedtler
  • Grave of Franz Wilhelm Metz (1817–1901), "gymnastics father", 1848 founder of the men's gymnastics club in Hanover (section 15 D, no. 36)
  • Grave site for Martha Christine Wiederhold, née Knies (first name Christine Wiederhold; born January 27, 1831 in Süss near Ziegenhain in Hesse; † May 31, 1916 in Hanover); Mother of the painter Carl Wiederhold ; Dept. 15, No. 39
  • Warrior Graves (Section A 34)
  • Grave site of Gerd von Rundstedt (1875–1953), German field marshal
  • Gravesite Liselotte Malkowsky (1913–1965), pop singer and cabaret artist
  • Tomb of the state actor Klaus Kammer (1929–1964) and family
  • The tomb for General Field Marshal Max von Bock and Polach was designed by City Planning Director Paul Wolf .

Media coverage (selection)

  • Susanne Bauch: Lots of space for the last rest. Hanover's cemeteries are now oversized - and should still be preserved as natural spaces , contribution to the 125th anniversary of the opening of the Stöcken cemetery, in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of June 2, 2016, p. 12

See also

literature

  • Michael Krische : Where death and life meet. 100 years of the Stöcken cemetery . Hanover: Green Space Office 1991.
  • Martin Baumann: Stöcken cemetery. Diploma thesis at the Institute for Green Planning and Garden Architecture. University of Hanover, 1991
  • Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Hanover. Art and culture lexicon. Handbook and city guide . 3rd, rev. Hannover: Schäfer 1995, p. 179, ISBN 3-88746-313-7
  • Michael Rohde: Park care plant Stöckener Friedhof Hannover. Avenues and hedge sections . On behalf of the state capital Hanover. Hanover 1997.
  • Stöcken cemetery . In: Discover, experience, understand Hanover's nature . Working group of the Association of German Biologists (Lower Saxony State Association). Edited by Elisabeth von Falkenhausen (among others). Seelze-Velber: Kallmeyer 1998, pp. 46-49, ISBN 3-7800-5263-6
  • Silke Beck, Cordula Wächter (Red.), Michael Krische : Stadtfriedhof Stöcken , with a numbered tour and an overview map as a folding map, ed. from the state capital Hanover, The Lord Mayor , Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, Hanover: LHH, 2009, passim ; downloadable as a PDF document from hannover.de

Web links

Commons : Stadtfriedhof Stöcken  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Silke Beck, Cordula Wächter (Red.), Michael Krische : Stadtfriedhof Stöcken , with a numbered tour and an overview map as a folding map, ed. from the state capital Hanover, The Lord Mayor , Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, Hanover: LHH, 2009, passim ; downloadable as a PDF document from hannover.de
  2. ^ Iron flower wreath adorns the tomb , in Gerda Valentin: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . Stadtanzeiger Nord of July 21, 2005, No. 168, p. 4; compare Manfred Koenig: The painter Carl Wiederhold. Notes on the biography and the work , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Episode 59 (2005), S: 63–82; here: p. 64, note 4; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ^ Klaus Nerger Klaus Kammer on the page knerger.de (undated), last accessed on January 9, 2018
  4. ↑ Paul Wolf: Stadthannoversche Friedhofskunst in old and new times , in ders. (Ed.): Hannover , ed. in agreement with the City of Hanover, Berlin-Halensee: "Dari", Deutscher Architektur- und Industrie-Verlag, 1922, pp. 118–125; here: see Fig. 168 on p. 122

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