Wuppertal cemeteries

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The North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​of Wuppertal has a total of more than 50 cemeteries in its urban area. There is no central large cemetery; none of the city's cemeteries is larger than 16 hectares. This is mainly due to the topographical conditions of the city, which make the construction of larger burial sites difficult. Another peculiarity of the Wuppertal cemetery system is that almost all cemeteries are denominationally administered, while the communal cemeteries common in other major German cities are an exception here. This has its origins in the city history of Wuppertal: Elberfeld and Barmen , who merged to form Wuppertal in 1929, have been characterized by a large number of different religious communities for centuries . Another reason was the rapid population growth during the Wilhelminian era , which in turn increased the need for burial space and in the 19th century led to the emergence of more and more cemeteries for the various religious communities in the city.

All cemeteries in Wuppertal, including those that no longer exist, are listed below.

Jewish cemeteries

Old Jewish cemetery on Weißenburgstrasse

Evangelical cemeteries

Association of Evangelical Churches in Wuppertal-Elberfeld

Evangelical Cemetery Association Wuppertal

Cemetery on Heckinghauser Strasse: grave of Emil Rittershaus

Cemeteries of the Protestant parishes

Evangelical parish Dönberg

Evangelical parish of Sonnborn

Evangelical Reformed Parish of Ronsdorf

Protestant parish Ronsdorf

Evangelical parish Vohwinkel

Protestant cemeteries that are no longer in use but still exist

Evangelical Free Church cemeteries

Dutch Reformed Cemeteries

Cemeteries of the Old Lutheran Congregation

Catholic cemeteries

Parish of St. Antonius (Barmen)

Parish of St. Elisabeth and St. Petrus (Barmen)

Parish of St. Maria Magdalena (Beyenburg)

Parish of St. Ewalde (Cronenberg)

Parish of St. Laurentius (Elberfeld)

Parish Herz Jesu (Elberfeld)

Parish of St. Elisabeth and St. Petrus (Heckinghausen)

Parish of St. Raphael (Langerfeld)

Parish of St. Joseph (Ronsdorf)

Parish of St. Remigius (Sonnborn)

Parish of St. Mary's Conception and St. Ludger (Vohwinkel)

No longer used but still existing Catholic cemeteries

Municipal cemeteries (municipal cemeteries)

  • Ronsdorf municipal cemetery (Lohsiepenstrasse) with an Islamic burial ground
  • Municipal cemetery Schöller (Schöllerweg), but looked after and administered by the Reformed parish of Schöller

Municipal cemeteries that are no longer in use but still exist

  • Cronenberg municipal cemetery (Schorfer Strasse)

Cemeteries of honor

No longer existing cemeteries

List of honor graves in Wuppertal

In Wuppertal there are 39 honorary graves in twelve cemeteries (status: 2007). These are maintained by the city of Wuppertal (resort green spaces and forests). Since most of these are located on family graves where several relatives are buried, the number of grave sites increases to 210. For example, the von der Heydt family's grave includes 26 individual graves.

literature

  • Mona Sabine Meis: Historical grave monuments of the Wupper region , PDF
  • Bettina Tewes: Wuppertal cemeteries . Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2006, ISBN 3-8313-1619-8
  • Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal graves. Historical walk through all of the city's cemeteries . Thales Verlag, Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88908-482-8 .

Web links

Commons : Friedhöfe in Wuppertal  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Cemeteries information page of the city of Wuppertal

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Closure of the cemetery “Zu den Dolinen” - Parish community Wupperbogen-Ost
  2. ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal graves. Historical walk through all of the city's cemeteries . Thales Verlag, Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88908-482-8 , p. 371-372 .