Rahlstedt Cemetery

The Rahlstedter cemetery (actually: Protestant Cemetery Rahlstedt ) since the year 1829 burial place of the Lutheran church to Alt- Rahlstedt ( today Hamburg). It is 8.5 hectares and has 19,000 graves. The cemetery was created as a replacement for the old cemetery around the church and was Rahlstedter as the burial place of belonging to Altrahlstedter parishes Berne, Braak, Farmsen, Meiendorf, Oldenfelde, batch field and Stellau thought. Each of these communities had been assigned there own burial ground. - The old cemetery was leveled in 1844.

Since 1964, the field for the pastors to the left of the chapel of the law stemming from Rahlstedter sculptor Artur Wiechert crucifix made ​​of white marble is mastered, which had since 1926 on the altar of the church Altrahlstedter. As the oldest preserved tombstone applies the cast iron cross of 1837 for the community midwife Sophie Dorothea Freerks.

Tombs Celebrity

  • Hanno Edelmann (1923-2013), painter, printmaker and sculptor
  • Ernst Grabbe (1926-2006), theater and television actor
  • Detlev von Liliencron (1844-1909), poet, playwright and prose. Tomb with enclosure and girl sculpture by Richard Luksch
  • Graves for two of the drowned in the sinking of the Pamir 1957 sailors

Photos

Grave stone Detlev von Liliencron

Detail at Liliencron grave

Grave field of pastors

View of the cemetery

A Walk Through the Cemetery

Grave seriousness Grabbe

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