Misburg forest cemetery

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The Misburg forest cemetery or Misburg district cemetery and Misburg city ​​cemetery in Hanover is a park-like cemetery that was laid out in the first quarter of the 20th century . The approximately 7.9 hectare site is used to bury the residents of the Misburg-Nord and Misburg-Süd districts and is located on the edge of the Misburg Forest on the Waldstraße between the streets Forstgrund and Alte Peiner Heerstraße .

History and description

As the successor to the - listed - cemetery Am Seelberg , the forest cemetery Misburg was opened at the beginning of the Weimar Republic in 1921. A few years later, on May 14, 1925, the memorial for those killed in the First World War was inaugurated.

Memorial plaque for the Hanover-Misburg subcamp

A memorial plaque on a wall of the forest cemetery commemorates the forced laborers who had to work and suffer in the nearby former Neuengamme concentration camp, Misburg subcamp , during the Nazi era . In addition, according to the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge , two grave fields are said to have been laid out for other victims of the National Socialist tyranny who were killed in the Second World War during the air raids on Hanover

  • 54 citizens of Misburg, including 2 unknown,
  • and apart from the 20 slave laborers of Eastern European nationality, 10 of whom could no longer be identified by name.

Both grave fields were redesigned and marked in 2009.

"The forest cemetery got a new chapel in 1963 ". Two historical epitaphs from the Baroque era were translocated into this in 1989 :

  1. The one of Heinrich Julie Warmbold and his wife Anna Ilse Potstahl (also: Anneliese, nee Putzstohl ), who died in 1676, was found during the construction of St. Anna's Chapel in 1932 and broken into two pieces by a construction worker through ignorance. After the upper part was lost in World War II , the lower part with the inscription and picture side down was used as a step on a former courtyard for a long time . Later the sculptor P. Leichsenring from Lahe replaced the lost piece.
  2. The other tomb had already been found in 1955 on the site of the former Mudzborgh and was interpreted by the local historian Anton Scholand as "[...] the tombstone of Lieutenant Putzstohl", which according to a memo from 1652, confirmed by an entry in the church book , built in the 17th century on the site of the former castle and was probably buried there. After the gravestone with the figurative depiction of the deceased military was considered lost again, it was "rediscovered at the beginning of 1989 [...] in the yard of the green area office in Döhrbruch." At the instigation of a descendant , Karl Heinz Schiebenhöfer from Bremen, among others and with the help of, among others, Rita Pawelski and the City Council of Hanover, the contemporary document could be moved to its present location.

Today the forest cemetery in Misburg, managed by the Lahe city ​​cemetery, has around 4,500 graves for coffin and urn burials in row or optional graves . Deep burials are not possible.

Depending on the season, the cemetery can be accessed at different opening times during the day.

Great personalities

  • In 1993, Willi Blume , the last city director of Misburg, was buried in the presence of, for example, the theologian Hans Werner Dannowski in the forest cemetery.

See also

literature

  • Karin van Schwartzenberg (responsible): District cemetery Misburg , brief information with an overview map , ed. from the state capital Hanover, The Lord Mayor , Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, Department of Urban Cemeteries, Department of Administration and Customer Service, [undated]; downloadable as a PDF document

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Peter Schulze : Friedhöfe , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 193–196; here: p. 195; online through google books
  2. ↑ Compare about NN : Cycle Paths and Leisure Map Hannover 1: 20000 , 13th edition, ed. from the state capital Hanover, The Lord Mayor, Geoinformation in cooperation with the ADFC Region Hanover eV , 2011, grid square V 7
  3. ↑ a b Fritz Kirchmeier (responsible): Hannover - Misburg, Waldfriedhof with photos by Volker Fleig from 2013 on the volksbund.de page , last accessed on June 7, 2016
  4. ^ Ortkarte 13 Misburg-Nord , in: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 2, volume 10.2 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , pp. 60f., 179f .; as well as Misburg-Nord in the addendum directory of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover. P. 27
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Neß : The village area and map 13 Misburg-Nord , in: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, city of Hanover, part 2, volume 10.2 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , pp. 60f., 179f .; as well as Misburg-Nord in the addendum directory of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover. P. 27
  6. ↑ a b c Karin van Schwartzenberg (responsible): Misburg district cemetery , brief information with an overview map, ed. from the state capital Hanover, The Lord Mayor, Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, Department of Urban Cemeteries, Department of Administration and Customer Service, [undated]; downloadable as a PDF document
  7. ^ NN : Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, Volumes 44–45, p. 333; Preview over google books
  8. ↑ Ulrike Puvogel : Memorials for the Victims of National Socialism. A documentation (= series of publications. Working aids for political education , vol. 245), ed. from the Federal Agency for Political Education , Bonn: Federal Agency for Political Education, 1987, ISBN 3-923423-67-5 , p. 422; Preview over google books
  9. ↑ Juan Carlos Blancos Varela, Wolfgang Illmer : Neue Friedhofskapelle , in Wolfgang Illmer (Hrsg.) Et al. : Chronicle Misburg. Origin to Present , 1st edition, Hannover-Misburg: W. Illmer, 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-038582-7 , p. 94
  10. ↑ a b Juan Carlos Blancos Varela, Wolfgang Illmer: Historical tombs were moved in 1989 , in Wolfgang Illmer (Hrsg.) Et al .: Chronik Misburg ... , p. 110
  11. ↑ Hans Werner Dannowski: "Lost independence, retain identity." Anderten and Misburg , in ders .: Hanover - far from near: In city districts on the move , Schlütersche GmbH & Co. KG Verlag und Druckerei, 2002, ISBN 978-3877066539 , p. ; Preview over google books

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 '4.3 "  N , 9 ° 51' 22.8"  E