Old Niendorf Cemetery

The Old Niendorf cemetery is a cemetery in the city of Hamburg. In the churchyard around the Market Church was buried from around 1770. In 1847, the cemetery was extended further. He now has a size of approximately 4.5 acres, on which there are 2350 graves in which 6500 people are buried.

Location

The cemetery is located at Niendorf Buy / Kollaustraße in the Hamburg district of Niendorf, near one of the runways at Hamburg Airport.

History

1770 Market church was completed. The church is 72 linden trees were planted, the eingrenzten the former cemetery. The trees were about 200 years to the church until they were rotten and had to be felled.

Already in 1847, the cemetery was extended further south. Also, this area became too small and therefore the New Niendorf cemetery on the other side of the street was opened in 1895. To date, burials take place on both cemeteries.

1956 was a part of the cemetery of the broadening of the Kollaustraße victim. The graves were reburied affected to a large extent.

Digger

The Old Niendorf cemetery belongs next to the hammer, and the Nienstedtener Ohlsdorfer cemetery to the most historically significant cemeteries in Hamburg. What makes it unique is the high number of large family tombs.

You can also find a small box with a museum established sandstone stelae from the early 19th century.

Prominent personalities

  • Members of the family Berenberg Gossler -:
  • John von Berenberg - Gossler - Hamburg banker and politician ( † 1943) A high, red sandstone slab, on which are the names of the deceased, widely overtops the cemetery.
  • Cornelius Freiherr von Berenberg - Gossler - Hamburg banker, brother of John († 1953)
  • Baron Johann Berenberg Gossler - - Hamburg banker, father of John and Cornelius ( † 1913) On the bronze grave plate is John Baron Berenberg Gossler -, not his real first name Johann.
  • Amsinck Wilhelm (1821-1909) - Hamburg businessman. He settled 1868-1870 the so-called Amsinck villa build ( When Amsinckpark 18) by the architect Martin Haller.
  • John Amsinck - businessman, son of William Amsinck († 1879)
  • Ludwig Erdwin Amsinck - Hamburg businessman († 1897)
  • Martin Garlieb Amsinck - Ship Builders & Reeder, son of John Amsinck († 1905)
  • Members of the Merck family:
  • Ernest William Merck ( born June 5, 1854 in Manchester † October 9, 1939 in Hamburg) - Partner of HJ Merck & Co., and in the boards of guano Werke AG and Norddeutsche Bank A. G.
  • Erwin Johannes Merck - Partner of HJ Merck & Co., son of Ernest William and Merck in the family grave buried († 1947)
  • Family Heymann - She built 1892 small mausoleum
  • Joachim Mähl - local poet († 1909)
  • Hermann Fölsch - Hamburg merchant and shipowner († 1920)
  • John August Lattmann - German businessman, banker and Senator Hamburg († 1936)
  • Max von Schinckel - Hamburg banker († 1938)
  • Adolph Godeffroy - Hamburg merchant and Member of Parliament, founder and first director of Hapag († 1893)
  • Josef " Jupp " Posipal - German footballer and World Champion in 1954 († 1997)
  • Günther Jerschke - German actor († 1997)
  • Evelyn Hamann - German actress († 2007)

Grave system of Albertinen Diakoniewerk

Ernest Merck

Family tomb of William Amsinck

Evelyn Hamann

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