The Minden North Cemetery is an 18-hectare listed cemetery in the East Westphalian city of Minden. It is located in the northwest of the city on the high bank on the left bank of the Weser and has been in operation since 1904 as a successor to the Minden Old Cemetery.
The cemetery was planned from 1899 by decision of the Minden City Council. City garden inspector Isermann designed the facility and implemented the plan. The chapel was designed by Minden's master builder August Kersten. After almost a hundred years of occupancy, the cemetery, known in Minden as the "Old Cemetery" or "Botanical Garden", was replaced by the "New Cemetery" - today called the "North Cemetery" - from 1904.
Between 1945 and 1946, a war cemetery was laid out in the North Cemetery for the dead of World War II. The foreign victims of war and violence also lie here in a burial ground. The plaque lists 128 members of different nations.
History: When at the end of the 19th century the city fathers had to decide on the question of a new cemetery area for the growing city, the choice quickly fell on the sandy ground between the Poggenmühle and the pilgrimage pond, which was already used for "private burial sites". The cemetery area, which was expanded from 14 to 18 hectares in the 1920s, was modeled on the largest park cemetery in the world, the Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg, and the English landscape gardens developed in the 18th century. Accordingly, the goal of the North Cemetery is to design its design based on what nature has to offer in terms of views and thus serve as an oasis of peace. In keeping with the ideal of a “walk-in landscape painting”, the different and varied picturesque impressions are intended to provide visitors with pleasure.
The Minden North Cemetery is an 18-hectare listed cemetery in the East Westphalian city of Minden. It is located in the northwest of the city on the high bank on the left bank of the Weser and has been in operation since 1904 as the successor to the Old Minden Cemetery.
The cemetery was planned in 1899 by resolution of the Minden City Council. City garden inspector Isermann designed the complex and implemented the plan. The chapel was designed by Minden's city architect August Kersten. After almost a hundred years of use, the cemetery, known in Minden as the "Old Cemetery" or "Botanical Garden", was replaced in 1904 by the "New Cemetery" - today called the "North Cemetery".[1]
A war cemetery was created in the North Cemetery between 1945 and 1946 for the dead of the Second World War. The foreign victims of war and violence are also buried here in a burial ground. The memorial plaque lists 128 people from different nations.[2] A total of 566 victims of both world wars - 264 civilians and 302 soldiers - are buried here.[3] The large cross that was initially intended for the Schlageter Memorial on Jakobsberg, but was dismantled shortly afterwards, can also be found here. In September 2007, the Grave Field of Remembrance was inaugurated at the North Cemetery, where poor and single people from Minden and the region of the Minden church district can be buried.[4]
In 2011, the North Cemetery took part in Open Monument Day for the first time.[5] The chapel in the cemetery is also often the focal point of the central ceremony for the City of Minden's National Day of Mourning. In 2001, it was also the location of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia's ceremony.
The cemetery is designed like a park: it has wide paths lined with spacious lawns and is planted with rhododendrons.
The cemetery contains the cemetery chapel, built in 1905 and under monument protection. It is located at the end of the avenue that begins at the main entrance on Marienstraße.[6] On the banks of the Weser, you can find the historic path "In Kuhlmanns Freuden" between the streets "Im Hohlweg" and "Wallfahrtsteich". From 1810, Minden families set up private burial sites there, where burials were still carried out until around 1872.[7]
On the slope towards the banks of the Weser, you can find the staircase with the high cross.
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