Lindener Berg district cemetery
The district cemetery Lindener Mountain is the time of the Kingdom of Hanover landscaped cemetery , which is now a listed park in Hanover is. Its blue star (Scilla) bloom in March attracts thousands of visitors every year.
description
The location of today's 6.1 hectare park with some of its avenues on parallel paths at the address Am Lindener Berge 44 is the Lindener Berg as Hanover's “ local mountain ”. The kitchen garden pavilion there is the seat of the non-profit association Quartier eV , whose members are particularly involved in communicating the history of the Linden district and organizing exhibitions .
history
The cemetery was laid out in 1862 as a burial place for the Evangelical Lutheran congregation of St. Martin's Church after the industrialist Georg Egestorff had given the congregation the property for it. The oldest section of the cemetery with its numerous grave sites, some dating back to the 19th century, is represented by the area laid out in the area of the later chapel and the fountain.
In 1864 the cemetery chapel designed by the architect Conrad Wilhelm Hase was inaugurated on the site .
In 1871, the year the German Empire was proclaimed , the heirs of Egestorff donated another piece of land to the community to expand the cemetery. Additional areas were added in 1874, 1884 and 1894. Also in 1884 the fountain was built in the center of the site with the figure of the "Angel of Peace" made from sandstone by the sculptor Karl Gundelach .
In 1906 the Linden mountain cemetery was taken over; the former "largest village in Prussia " had long since risen to become an industrial city and had already received city rights in 1885 . After the new Lindens main cemetery, the Ricklingen city cemetery , was opened just two years later in 1908, only burials in the hereditary burial grounds were permitted in the mountain cemetery .
Before the First World War , the kitchen garden pavilion , which had been dismantled from its original location in the ducal kitchen garden in 1911 , was rebuilt on the southern main path of the mountain cemetery. During the Weimar Republic , the pavilion served as a memorial for those who died in the war , and later also as a studio and for art exhibitions .
For the period of National Socialism in 1937 and the portal dated 1866 discontinued kitchen garden after it first in a private garden at the Ihme had been transferred, to the mountain cemetery translocated and above the alley installed in the southern cemetery wall.
In 1960, part of the cemetery grounds were given up to expand Badenstedter Strasse . Around five years later, in 1965, the cemetery was designated as a park for the public .
The slightly damaged electroplating of an angel can be found in the cemetery , the shape of which was created by the Leipzig sculptor Adolf Lehnert for the Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik (WMF).
The chapel built by Conrad Wilhelm Hase in 1864
The listed cemetery wall, here with a view towards the botanical school garden and Benther Berg
The kitchen garden pavilion , seen from the avenue at the cemetery entrance
The tombs
After only a few burials had been carried out in the inherited family graves since 1965, a total of 130 preserved graves were found in 2008. Well-known graves include those of
- the noble family von Alten
- Carl Buchheister ;
- Heinrich Loges ;
- Hermann Heinrich Stephanus
- Ludwig Poppelbaum
- as well as from some farming families from Linden and the surrounding area.
Enclosed family grave of part of the Linden branch of the noble von Alten family in front of the chapel
The inscription for the social democrat Heinrich Loges the comrades of the 8th Hanover constituency
Pastor Ignaz Diedrich (1844–1881), founder of the Catholic parish in Lindens, at the time just St. Godehard
Portrait - medallion of a still unidentified sculptor with the portrait of Christian Niemeyer
Angel figure after Adolf Lehnert on the tombstone of booksellers Georg Hassler (1844–1908) and Auguste Nöckel († 1941)
Plate of the Galvanoplastischen Kunstanstalt am Engelsfuß by Georg Hassler
Plain stone slab for the "Stephanus family", including Richard Stephanus
One of the last grave stones of the family of the elderly, on which a " Lord of the Manor on Linden " (meaning the Lindener Castle ) was called
See also
literature
- Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Lindener Berg. 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. 118f.
- as well as Linden-Mitte 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. 22f.
- Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Am Lindener Berge 44. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 82
- Jonny Peter, Wilfried Dahlke: The kitchen garden pavilion in Linden (= Lindener Geschichtsblätter , Issue 1), 2nd, revised edition, ed. from the Quartier eV association , 2003
- Jonny Peter, Ulf Kronshage (Red.): Der Lindener Bergfriedhof (= district series “Rundgang” , issue 3), publisher: Quartier eV, Hanover: 2012
- Peter Schulze : Lindener Berg district cemetery. 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. 593f.
Web links
- Jens Matthaei, Edith Meyfarth, Jonny Peter (responsible): The city cemetery Am Lindener Berge on the quartier-ev.de site
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Peter Schulze: District cemetery ... (see literature)
- ↑ a b c d e Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Am Lindener Berge 44 (see literature)
- ↑ a b c Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Lindener Berg (see literature)
- ↑ Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Am Lindener Berge. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 81
- ↑ Compare the association's website
- ^ Klaus Mlynek : Linden. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 406ff.
- ^ Helmut Knocke: Kitchen Garden Pavilion. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 374
- ↑ Compare the documentation at Commons (see under the section Weblinks )
- ↑ Dirk Böttcher : STEPHANUS, (2) 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. 349.
Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 47.9 " N , 9 ° 42 ′ 13.4" E