Lindener Berg district cemetery

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Scilla blossom in March 2009, in the background the kitchen garden pavilion

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 fountain with the "Angel of Peace" by Karl Gundelach, erected in 1884

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 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

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Lindener Berg district cemetery (Hanover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Peter Schulze: District cemetery ... (see literature)
  2. a b c d e Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Am Lindener Berge 44 (see literature)
  3. a b c Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Lindener Berg (see literature)
  4. Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Am Lindener Berge. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 81
  5. Compare the association's website
  6. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Linden. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 406ff.
  7. ^ Helmut Knocke: Kitchen Garden Pavilion. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 374
  8. Compare the documentation at Commons (see under the section Weblinks )
  9. 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