Striesen cemetery
The Striesener Friedhof is a burial place in Dresden . As a community cemetery for the Dresden suburb of Striesen at the time , it is now surrounded by urban development and is a listed building as a whole.
location
The Striesener Friedhof is located on Gottleubaer Straße in Dresden. Originally it was laid out outside the built-up areas of Striesen. Today it is partly surrounded by residential buildings, but also by allotments . There is a cemetery nursery on the grounds of the cemetery. Not far from the cemetery are the former Jasmatzi cigarette factory , now the f6 cigarette factory Dresden , and the Pentacon building.
history
The rural community Striesen initially belonged to the parish of the Dresden Kreuzkirche . Burials took place in the Trinity cemetery . In December 1880 Striesen was cleared out of the parish and thus independent. In the following year negotiations began to set up a cemetery of their own in Striesen. After the favored plot of land was acquired by rhododendron breeder Hermann Seidel in the 1870s (today's Hermann-Seidel-Park ), the cemetery in the area of today's Gottleubaer Strasse was laid out according to plans by the architect Gotthilf Ludwig Möckel and by the Ernst Wachs company executed. The Striesen cemetery was inaugurated on July 16, 1883, but the first burial probably took place four months later.
Like the complex itself, the cemetery chapel was made by Gotthilf Ludwig Möckel. It was built in sandstone in the neo-Romanesque style until 1883 and has a relief depicting the Lamentation of Christ above the portal . It is flanked by the representations of Adam and Eve , Gabriel and Michael can be seen on the side of the arch . In the chapel, which had a high tower with the bell consecrated on April 14, 1892, services were held every fortnight. Möckel also built a deathbed master's apartment with associated extensions. The cemetery complex was expanded for the first time around 1900 due to the rapid population growth in Striesen. In the 1930s, the administration building and morgue also had to be expanded.
On February 13, 1945, parts of the cemetery, including the cemetery buildings, were destroyed in the bombing of Dresden . The cemetery administration initially continued to work in makeshift arrangements and in 1949 moved into the rebuilt funeral hall. The reconstruction of the cemetery chapel began in 1952 and was completed with the rededication on June 10, 1956. The tower was not restored. Instead, the chapel received a 2.5-meter-high bell chamber, which was designed by the architect Burckhardt. Since 1962 the chapel entrance has been flanked by statues of the four evangelists Johannes , Lukas , Markus and Matthäus , possibly by Rudolph Hölbe . They belonged to Dresden's Erlöserkirche , the ruins of which were torn down by 1962. Other cemetery buildings were rebuilt into the 1960s.
The Striesen cemetery was last expanded in the 1950s and has a size of 5.95 hectares. In addition to burials in the ground, urn burials also take place. The legal entities of the cemetery are the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community Dresden-Blasewitz and the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community Johannes-Kreuz-Lukas Dresden.
Personalities
Some well-known personalities were buried in the Striesen cemetery:
- Wilhelm Christian Crecelius (1898–1979), nutritional physiologist
- Rudolf Forberger (1910–1997), economic historian
- Helmar Helas (1914–1981), glass painter
- Max Helas (1875–1949), painter
- Rudolph Hölbe (1848–1926), sculptor
- Rolf Kleinert (1911–1975), conductor
- Siegfried Koch (1929–1978), nuclear physicist
- Richard Krautwald , machine manufacturer
- Nikolaus Joachim Lehmann (1921–1998), computer scientist
- Dieter Netzband (1935–1990), measurement and automation technician
- Karl Nitsche (1908–1970), professor of agricultural machinery
- Friedrich Pappermann (1909–1995), art collector
- Harald Perner (1927–2001), textile technician
- Willy Petzold (1885–1978), painter
- Hermann Reinschmidt (1829–1886), director of the Elbdampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft
- Felix Renker (1867–1935), writer
- Horst Schlossar (1903–1964), painter and draftsman
- Hermann Seidel (1833–1896), plant breeder, art and trade gardener
- Werner Sieber (1933–1995), economist
- Weslau Werschner (1940-2010), chamber singer
- Franz Zeibig (1860–1902), photographer
- Walter Zeibig (1882–1929), photographer
- Joachim Zschocke (1928–2003), actor
literature
- The Dresden cemetery guide. Mammut Verlag, Leipzig 2011, pp. 166–169.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Dresden themed city map, address Gottleubaer Straße 2
- ^ Ch. FD Boëß: Dresden-Striesen . In: New Saxon Church Gallery. The Ephorie Dresden 1 . Verlag Arwed Strauch, Leipzig 1906, Sp. 674.
- ↑ See dresdner-stadtteile.de
- ↑ Striesener Friedhof on the Johanneskichgemeinde website, accessed on December 18, 2015
- ↑ Leaflet of the Ev.-Luth. Johanneskirchgemeinde Dresden-Johannstadt-Striesen - senior circle from October 2018
- ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Dresden . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 2005, p. 217.
- ↑ Leaflet of the Ev.-Luth. Johanneskirchgemeinde Dresden-Johannstadt-Striesen - senior circle from October 2018
- ^ Ch. FD Boëß: Dresden-Striesen . In: New Saxon Church Gallery. The Ephorie Dresden 1 . Verlag Arwed Strauch, Leipzig 1906, Sp. 676.
- ↑ a b Dresden-Striesen cemetery website of the Dresden-Blasewitz parish
- ↑ Leaflet of the Ev.-Luth. Johanneskirchgemeinde Dresden-Johannstadt-Striesen - senior circle from October 2018
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 18.1 ″ N , 13 ° 47 ′ 52.9 ″ E