Forest cemetery (Luckenwalde)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Forest cemetery in Luckenwalde

The forest cemetery on Straße des Friedens 49 is a burial place in Luckenwalde , the district town of the Teltow-Fläming district in Brandenburg . Together with the porter's office, the nursery and the cemetery chapel, the ensemble is a listed building . The cemetery covers an area of ​​12 hectares .

history

At the end of the 19th century, the city only had cemeteries that were in ecclesiastical care. This posed a problem for the burial of non- denominational people. There was a particular need in Luckenwalde, since towards the end of the Weimar Republic 27.9% of people left the church, the highest figure in the German Empire at that time. Other reasons for a new cemetery were the increasing number of residents and a higher demand for urn burials. On the initiative of the city building councilor Josef Bischof , the city ​​administration decided to build a municipal cemetery that was open to all denominations. They commissioned the Austrian architect Richard Neutra to plan such a facility. His early expressionist work of "classical modernism" was created in 1921 and 1922. The inauguration took place on October 15, 1922. When designing the building, Neutra insisted that the focus should not be on death, but that natural space should have its own quality. Inspired by the ancient Egyptian cult of the dead , he laid the plan in the form of a scarab on which a sign of the "resurrection of the gods was considered": A semicircular space in front of a 1937 instead of a designed by Bishop speaker's platform erected church building represents the head while the two the forest behind formed the body of the animal. The terrace area formed the lower body, while four zigzag side clearings formed the legs. Two water basins, which were connected by a bridge, were supposed to symbolize the transition from life to death based on the Styx . She arranged Neutra so that a mourners had to go from the chapel to the graves over this bridge. A crematorium planned by the Luckenwalde architect Paul Backes , however, was not built.

In 1935 the cemetery was expanded to include an urn grave wall, and in 1937 a mourning hall was added. It was designed and built in the so-called "Heimatstil".

Since 1997, the city has been renovating the complex in terms of garden monument preservation.

The city of Luckenwalde has been renovating the cemetery since 1994. The renovated entrance building was opened in summer 2014. This project cost around € 100,000, lasted almost a year and resulted in a reconditioning of the windows, doors, roof and facade based on historical models.

literature

  • Georg Dehio (arr. Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
  • Joachim Jacobs, Petra Huebinger: Luckenwalde. The forest cemetery. An expressionist breakfast by Richard Neutras , Brandenburgische Denkmalpflege, Volume 3, No. 1, 1994, pp. 106–112
  • City of Luckenwalde (Ed.): City of Luckenwalde - Historical walks , flyer, without date, p. 24
  • Working Group for Regional Development Centers of the Berlin-Brandenburg City Circle: Seven green city walks , Flyer, 2004, p. 50

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Pelikanpost from November 2, 2010
  2. ↑ a b Pelikanpost from July 8, 2014
  3. ↑ Waldfriedhof Luckenwalde ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the garden state Brandenburg, accessed on May 17, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gartenland-brandenburg.info
  4. ^ Margrit Hahn: Historical evidence for crematorium surfaced . In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , October 21, 2013, accessed on May 17, 2015.
  5. ↑ Pelikan-Post from August 20, 2013

Coordinates: 52 ° 6 '24.4 "  N , 13 ° 8' 53"  E