Ahlem district cemetery

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The chapel , built in 1913, with the - also listed - cemetery entrance in Ahlemer Holz on Mönckeberg .
Row of graves

The district cemetery Ahlem (also: Stadtfriedhof Ahlem , Ahlemer Friedhof or Ahlemer Waldfriedhof ) in Hanover is a cemetery laid out at the beginning of the 20th century in what is now the Hanover district of Ahlem , and beyond the outskirts of the Lower Saxony state capital, partly also in the area of ​​the city of Letter between Letter-Süd and Harenberg . The green area of around 5 hectares , which serves as a "district cemetery" for burial and the memorial exclusively of former residents of the district, is classified in its southern part, facing the Ahlemer Holz, as a monument . The location of the site with its listed chapel is the western end of Mönckebergallee , which leads up to Ahlemer Holz and Mönckeberg . Cyclists can reach the cemetery, which is located directly on the Green Ring in the Hanover region , via the - blue - path markings.

history

The memorial for the dead of both world wars erected in front of the cemetery

The oldest known graves in and around Ahlem are said to have been found during the removal of the beech mountain southeast of the former village. From what is probably the largest burial ground in the area around the city of Hanover, hundreds of clay urns from the time of the Great Migration are said to have been found, of which around 20 of the best-preserved ones came into the possession of the then "Provincial Museum", today's Lower Saxony State Museum .

Today's cemetery was laid out at the time of the German Empire in 1913, at the upper end of an old dirt road that went up through the Ahlemer Holz and up to Mönckeberg under the name Holzweg . This path was renamed Friedrich-Ebert-Straße after the time of National Socialism and the Second World War around 1950 , after the democratically elected former President Friedrich Ebert . The memorial for the dead of both world wars , erected not far from the cemetery, also dates from the post-war period . It was not until 1975, the year after the incorporation of Ahlems into the capital of Lower Saxony, that the avenue leading to the cemetery was given its current name Mönckebergallee .

Graves of well-known personalities (selection)

View through the listed gardens to the grave of the family of the entrepreneur Richard Lattorf

See also

Web links

Commons : Ahlem district cemetery (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 194.
  2. ↑ a b Compare, for example, the cycle path and leisure map of Hanover 1: 20000. Ed .: Der Oberbürgermeister, Landeshauptstadt Hannover, Geoinformation, 2011
  3. ↑ a b c d Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Ahlem map and Ahlem. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover , 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 , pp. 56f., 171ff .; as well as Ahlem in the addendum : List of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation), status: July 1, 1985 , p. 26
  4. ^ A b Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Lattorf, Richard. 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. 223; online through google books
  5. ↑ a b c d Helmut Zimmermann : Mönckebergallee , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 175
  6. ↑ Walter Nowothnig : Cremation graves during the migration period in southern Lower Saxony (= Göttingen writings on pre- and early history , vol. 4), Neumünster: Wachholtz, 1964, p. 13 and others; Preview over google books
  7. ^ Ines Katenhusen , Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Lower Saxony State Museum. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 473ff.
  8. ^ Klaus Mlynek : incorporations. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 153
  9. ↑ Dirk Böttcher : Bergengruen, Hermann Hartmut. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 59

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '5 "  N , 9 ° 39' 6.8"  E