Lueneburg Central Cemetery

Central cemetery Lüneburg: war cemetery of the fallen in 1945

The Lüneburg Central Cemetery has existed since 1876. It covers an area of ​​12.9 hectares and is located on Soltauer Strasse in the Mittelfeld district of Lüneburg . The cemetery contains 15,000 tombstones. After the forest cemetery in the Kaltenmoor district with 24.1 hectares and 20,000 gravestones, it is the second largest cemetery in the city of Lüneburg.

history

When the space at the Gertrudenfriedhof and the St. Antonifriedhof was no longer sufficient, a large collective cemetery was established on Soltauer Straße towards the end of the 19th century after long negotiations, which for decades was under the control of St. John's Church . According to Wilhelm Friedrich Volger , the first burial took place there in 1876. In 1883 the neo-Gothic cemetery chapel was inaugurated. Between 1907 and 1933 the cemetery was expanded. In April 1966, the central cemetery was taken over by the city of Lüneburg, but was only released for further burials from 1983. Six war cemeteries were laid out in the entire complex, including one for victims of the Hamburg firestorm of 1943. A memorial service on Memorial Day takes place every year on Ehrenhain III under the direction of the VDK .

Graves of famous personalities

• Ernst Braune (1879–1954), Lord Mayor
• Erich Dieckmann (1885–1953), Lord Mayor
• Marga Jess (1885–1953), first German master goldsmith
• Georg Keferstein (1831–1907), Lord Mayor
• Franz Krüger (1873–1936), architect
• Otto Lauenstein (1829–1902), Lord Mayor
• Erhard Milch (1892–1972), Field Marshal General
• Horst Nickel (1918–1987), Lord Mayor
• Bernd Ohnesorge (1944–1987), taxidermist and agent
• Siegfried Ruff (1895–1946), Lieutenant General
• Jens Schreiber (1942–2002), Lord Mayor
• Kurt von Tippelskirch (1891–1957), General
• Horst Uffhausen (1909–1999), judge
• Wilhelm Wetzel (1902–1976), Lord Mayor
• Walter Zechlin (1879–1962), diplomat

See also

• Memorial in the Tiergarten

Individual evidence

1. ^ Central cemetery plan
2. ^ VVN Lüneburg: From the concentration camp cemetery to the rhododendron park , p. 56.
3. ↑ S. Butenhoff: Lüneburg's history set in stone
4. ^ Working group Lüneburg old town
5. ↑ ww2gravestone.com
6. ^ Find a Grave

literature

• VVN Lüneburg: From the concentration camp cemetery to the rhododendron park . Lüneburg 2016.

Web links

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

• Hanseatic City of Lüneburg: cemeteries

Coordinates: 53 ° 14 ′ 7.2 "  N , 10 ° 23 ′ 47.7"  E