Furpach Central Cemetery
The Furpach Central Cemetery has been the most important cemetery in the city of Neunkirchen (Saar) since it opened in 1961 . With a total area of 22.4 hectares, it is the third largest cemetery in Saarland after the Saarbrücken main cemetery and the Saarbrücken-Burbach forest cemetery .
history
Due to the sharp increase in Neunkirchen's population since the middle of the 19th century, the Scheib main cemetery, opened in 1875, had become too small for the number of burials. From 1933 the construction of a new municipal cemetery was planned, for which a site on the Spieser Höhe was initially considered. Due to the war, a cemetery of honor for fallen soldiers was established there in 1939, on which there were more than 400 graves after the war, including those of foreign war dead. They were uniformly planted with roses and bordered with a hornbeam hedge. The cemetery of honor was abolished in 1959 and the war dead were transferred partly to the Scheib main cemetery and partly to the Besch collective cemetery.
With renewed planning for the city's central cemetery, a site near the Furpach district in the city's own forest southeast of the Furpach estate was selected after an appraisal in 1958 had confirmed the most favorable conditions here. In 1960 the construction of the new cemetery began. As a forest cemetery, the cemetery should fit into the landscape and the forest area. Here was the medieval church with the medieval churchyard of Furpach, which was leveled in 1857 and which contained 200 skeletons, some of which were well preserved. After completion of the first field with 300 grave sites, the new burial site was consecrated on June 11, 1961 - in the morning by the Protestant church, in the afternoon by the Catholic parish. The first burial took place on June 27, 1961. In the first few years, the bodies were laid out in the morgue of the Scheib main cemetery and then transported to the Furpach Central Cemetery.
In 1973 the initially 15.7 hectare cemetery was expanded by 6.7 hectares and the decision to build a new mourning hall at the central cemetery in Furpach.
Consecration hall
The new consecration hall with the characteristic pointed roof, the construction of which cost 3,121,000 DM, was inaugurated in the summer of 1980. The hall is entered via a forecourt with a fountain, the meeting point for the mourners, with 130 seats and around 200 people. The funeral rooms, waiting rooms, offices and rooms for pastors and porters are connected to the consecration hall and the collecting yard, and social rooms, heating and equipment rooms are located in the basement. An external bell tower is in front of the complex. On the opposite side of the path there is a sandstone sundial with the inscription "Light clarifies / shadow teaches", the masterpiece of the Neunkirchen sculptor Oliver Rinder.
literature
- Rainer Knauf: The cemeteries of the city of Neunkirchen. In: Rainer Knauf, Christof Trepesch (Ed.): Neunkircher Stadtbuch. District town Neunkirchen, Neunkirchen 2005, ISBN 3-00-015932-0 , pp. 601–631.
Individual evidence
- ^ Bernhard Krajewski: Chronicle of Kohlhof. Published as a commemorative publication for the inauguration of St. George's Church in Kohlhof on July 1, 1934. Neunkirchener Zeitung, Neunkirchen 1934, p. 31.
Web links
- Furpach cemetery near the district town of Neunkirchen online.
Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 12 ″ N , 7 ° 13 ′ 12 ″ E