Cemetery Speyer, Cultural heritage monument in Speyer, Germany.
Cemetery Speyer is a burial ground in the city of Speyer that holds a collection of gravestones and monuments from various periods. The grounds feature pathways for walking and display different styles of grave design and memorial practices.
The cemetery was established in 1881 as Speyer grew during the 19th century. Since then it has served the city as a burial place and documents its development through the graves of its residents.
The cemetery shows how Speyer has honored its deceased across generations through different burial practices. You can see in the gravestones various styles and inscriptions that tell stories about the city's daily life and values.
The main entrance is on Wormser Landstraße, from where a straight path leads past the large central cross by Gottfried Renn to the funeral hall and mortuary in the west. From the cross, one main avenue runs south and another north. The original walled section between Wormser Landstraße, Alter Postweg and Hertrichweg is laid out in axis-symmetrical squares; the newer northern section extends beyond Hertrichweg along Brunckstraße.
At the end of the avenue south of the central cross stands a double cross on a lava-stone base for Franz Hellinger and Ferdinand Wiesmann, two members of a murder squad fatally wounded in the 9 January 1924 assassination of the leaders of the so-called Autonomous Palatinate. The stone bears their names and dates on the north side and the inscription "To the freedom fighters of 9 January 1924" on the south side.
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