Central Cemetery (Erlangen)

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The funeral hall of the Erlangen central cemetery

The central cemetery (also known as the municipal cemetery ) is a municipal cemetery in Erlangen . With an area of ​​around 60,000 square meters and around 9,000 graves , it is the largest cemetery in the central Franconian city . His burial district today includes the Erlangen core city (east of the Regnitz ) and the districts of Sieglitzhof and Tennenlohe .

history

After Erlangen's first municipal cemetery, which is located on the site of today's Ehrenfriedhofs , became too small due to population growth , the central cemetery was built further out of town in the 1890s, on a plot of around 50,000 square meters on the Brucker Anger . The construction costs amounted to around 90,000 marks , and the cemetery, which was open to all members of all denominations and the deceased of the sanatoriums and nursing homes, was opened on September 26, 1895. The cemetery wall initially enclosed only three sides of the site.

Between 1916 and 1921 the Russian, Italian and French soldiers who died in the Erlangen prisoner of war camp were buried in the central cemetery . The dead of the latter two nationalities were transferred to their home countries in 1926. The Russian prisoners, however, had a two meters high in the summer of 1919 memorial stone of granite with Cyrillic inscription can be set up for their comrades. Their individual graves were dissolved in 1929 and the bones in two scharrierten artificial stone - sarcophagus folded, which have been placed on both sides of the memorial stone.

In 1927 the central cemetery was extended to the east for the first time. In 1944/45 there was an expansion to the south to Fließbachstrasse. The last extension to the east to Michael-Vogel-Straße took place in 1957. The flower kiosk was built next to the main entrance as early as 1954 . In February 1962, the new building of the municipal garden and cemetery office (part of the registry office since 1996 ) in the northeast corner of the central cemetery was occupied. In May 1998 a new urn hall was inaugurated.

description

The central cemetery is located at Äußere Brucker Straße 53, one of the most important entry and exit roads in Erlangen, around one kilometer southwest of the historic city center. It has an extension of almost 300 meters in north-south direction and around 250 meters in east-west direction.

In addition to around 225 casualties of the Second World War and four members of the long time stationed in Erlangen US garrison are buried at the Central Cemetery numerous personalities of public life. Among them are professors from the Friedrich-Alexander-University such as Isidor Rosenthal († 1915), Leo Hauck († 1945), Otto Goetze († 1955) and Heinrich Franke († 1966) or the former mayor Michael Poeschke († 1959) , Friedrich Sponsel († 1980) and Heinrich Lades († 1990).

Structures in the cemetery

In addition to the tombstones from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which were often designed in historicizing forms, the cemetery gate from around 1895, executed in the same style, is worth seeing. The arched gate made of sandstone blocks is flanked by two round pillars and a triangular gable with a shell is decorated, crowned. There is a large cross on top . The south and west walls of the cemetery with numerous inset plaques and tombs date from the same period.

The funeral hall , a single-storey sandstone block building with a gable roof , was also built around 1895. The entrance front on the west side is particularly emphasized by arcades resting on round columns and a transverse gable with a bell top and clock . On either side of the entrance area extending along the west facade of a portico with ionizing capitals .

The funeral hall was equipped in 1994 with an organ from Deininger & Renner (Opus 101) from Oettingen . The fully mechanical slider chest instrument comprises seven registers on a manual and pedal . The disposition is:

I Manual
1. Covered 8th'
2. Salicional 8th'
3. Principal 4 ′
4th Reed flute 4 ′
5. Little Pomeranian 2 ′
6th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Tremulant
pedal
7th Sub-bass 16 ′

literature

Web links

Commons : Zentralfriedhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Erlangen: Cemeteries . Online at www.erlangen.de ; accessed on October 9, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b c Renate Wünschmann: Central Cemetery. In: Erlanger Stadtlexikon.
  3. ↑ List of monuments for Erlangen (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  4. ↑ Bavarian organ database online

Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 20.9 ″  N , 10 ° 59 ′ 51.5 ″  E