Notre-Dame Cemetery (Luxembourg)
{{Short description|Cemetery in Luxembourg City}}
{{Infobox cemetery|name=Notre-Dame Cemetery|established=1780|country=Luxembourg|location=Rue Nico Klopp, Limpertsberg, Luxembourg City|size_ha=13.9916|owner=Luxembourg City|image=Luxembourg cimetière Notre-Dame platanes 01.jpg}}
The Notre-Dame Cemetery ({{Langx|fr|Cimetière Notre-Dame}}, {{Langx|de|Liebfrauenfriedhof}}) in Luxembourgish more commonly the {{Lang|lb|Nikloskierfecht}}, or "St. Nicholas Graveyard", is located in the Limpertsberg quarter of Luxembourg City. It is the largest of the 14 cemeteries and graveyards managed by the Service Cimetières of the City of Luxembourg.
History
After the Church of St. Nicholas in the city centre was torn down, and the seat of the St. Nicholas parish was transferred to the former Jesuit church (now the Cathedral), in 1779 the parish graveyard was moved outside the city walls to the Glacis. This was the origin of the name „Nikloskierfecht“.E. Feitler: Luxemburg, deine Heimatstadt. 2nd edition. Luxembourg 1954, p. 106. The new graveyard was on land near the Notre-Dame Chapel (German: {{Lang|de|Kapelle Unserer Lieben Frau}}, French: {{Lang|fr|Chapelle Notre-Dame}}), also called the {{Lang|lb|Neipuertskapell}} (Luxembourgish for "New Gate Chapel").F. Lascombes: Chronik der Stadt Luxemburg: 1684-1795. Luxembourg 1988, p. 383f. This explains the official name of Notre-Dame Cemetery.
The new cemetery was essentially just an extension of a graveyard which had already existed by the chapel since 1691 and where those were buried who had been condemned to death but were not criminals, such as deserters. Two gardens were added to the old graveyard, one of which belonged to the chapel, while the other was the property of the Holy Ghost monastery.
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Monuments
There are two monuments at the Notre-Dame Cemetery:
- the National Monument of the Resistance and the Deportation, or {{Lang|fr|Monument national de la résistance et de la déportation}}, usually simply called the "Hinzert Cross" (Luxembourgish: {{Lang|lb|Hinzerter Kraitz}}){{Sfn|Dondelinger|2008|pp=41ff}}
- the Monument to the Luxembourgish Unknown Legionary and the French Soldiers who died in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg in the Great War 1914-1918{{Sfn|Dondelinger|2008|pp=40f}}
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Notable interments
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- Mathias Adam (1850-1936)
- Léon Berchem (1897-1961), author
- Sophie de Bette{{Cite web |title=Sophie De Bette |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/sophie-de-bette |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Pierre Blanc (1872-1946), painter
- Martin Blum (1845-1924), priest and historian
- Victor Bodson (1902-1984), politician
- Melchior Bourg-Gemen (1861-1939){{Cite web |title=Melchior Bourg-Gemen |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/melchior-bourg-gemen |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Thomas Byrne{{Cite web |title=Thomas Byrne (Byrne-Baustert family plot) |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/thomas-byrne-byrne-baustert-family-plot |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Pol Clemen (1861-1925)
- Pierre Clomes{{Cite web |title=Pierre Clomes |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/pierre-clomes |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- François-Charles Emmanuel Collin (1790-1851){{Cite web |title=François-Charles Emmanuel Collin (Collin-Gindorff) |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/francois-charles-emmanuel-collin-collin-gindorff |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Gérard Cravatte (1900-1967)
- Jules van Damme{{Cite web |title=Jules Van Damme |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/jules-van-damme |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Gaston Diderich (1884-1946), politician
- Adolphe Eberhard (1896-1941)
- Michel Engels (1851-1901), painter{{Cite web |title=Michel and Victor Engels (Engels-Greiveldinger family plot) |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/michel-and-victor-engels-engels-greiveldinger-family-plot |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Victor Engels (1892-1962), architect and painter
- Eydt-Funck family grave (Jean-François Eydt, Pierre Funck and Paul Funck)
- Paul Eyschen (1841-1915), politician{{Cite web |title=Paul Eyschen |url=https://www.vdl.lu/fr/visiter/art-et-culture/tombes-remarquables/paul-eyschen |website=City of Luxembourg}}{{Sfn|Dondelinger|2008|pp=38ff}}
- Jean-Baptiste Fallize (1844-1933)
- Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine (1787-1871)
- Léon de la Fontaine
- Jean-Baptiste Gellé (1777-1847){{Cite web |title=J.B. Gellé |url=https://www.vdl.lu/fr/visiter/art-et-culture/tombes-remarquables/jb-gelle |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Therese Glaesener-Hartmann
- Willy Goergen (1867-1942)
- Bernard Graf (1831-){{Cite web |title=Bernard Graf-Ulveling |url=https://www.vdl.lu/fr/visiter/art-et-culture/tombes-remarquables/bernard-graf-ulveling |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Bernard Groethuysen{{Cite web |title=Bernhard Groethuysen and Alix Guillain |url=https://www.vdl.lu/fr/visiter/art-et-culture/tombes-remarquables/bernhard-groethuysen-and-alix-guillain |website=City of Luxembougr}}
- Nicolas Hemmen (1855){{Cite web |title=Nicolas Hemmen-Breyer |url=https://www.vdl.lu/fr/visiter/art-et-culture/tombes-remarquables/nicolas-hemmen-breyer |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Ferdinand d'Huart (1857-1919)
- Michel Hülsemann (1885-1955), musician
- Antoine Jans (1868-1933), ceramics painter
- Joseph Junck (1839-1922){{Cite web |title=Joseph Junck |url=https://www.vdl.lu/fr/visiter/art-et-culture/tombes-remarquables/joseph-junck |website=City of Luxemmbourg}}
- Auguste Klein (1866-1945){{Cite web |title=Auguste Klein-Demuth |url=https://www.vdl.lu/fr/visiter/art-et-culture/tombes-remarquables/auguste-klein-demuth |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Alphonse Kemp (1872-1950), architect{{Cite web |title=Alphonse Kemp (Kemp family plot) |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/alphonse-kemp-kemp-family-plot |access-date=31 January 2024 |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Jean-Pierre Ker (1900-1951), painter
- Evrard Ketten (1842-1912), horticulturalist{{Cite web |title=Evrard Ketten |url=https://www.vdl.lu/fr/visiter/art-et-culture/tombes-remarquables/evrard-ketten |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Ernst Koch (1808-1858), poet
- William J. Kroll (1889-1873)
- Eugène Kurth (1868-1960){{Cite web |title=Eugène Kurth |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/eugene-kurth |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Guillaume Lefèvre{{Cite web |title=Guillaume Lefèvre |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/node/95029 |website=City of Luxembourg |language=fr}}
- Michel Lentz (1833–1893){{Cite web |title=Michel Lentz |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/michel-lentz |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Jean Logeling
- Edouard Luja
- Jean-Pierre Maeysz{{Cite web |title=Abbé Jean-Pierre Maeysz |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/abbe-jean-pierre-maeysz |access-date=31 January 2024 |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Nicolas Majerus
- Fernand Mertens (1872-1957), composer{{Cite web |title=Fernand Mertens |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/fernand-mertens |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Metz family grave
- Léon Moulin
- Edmond Patzké (1844-1903){{Cite web |title=Edmond Patzké |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/edmond-patzke |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Antoine and Anne Pescatore-Feltz
- Ferdinand and Marie Joséphine Pescatore
- Charles-Auguste Praum{{Cite web |title=Charles-Auguste Praum |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/node/97140 |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Léopold Reichling
- Michel Rodange
- François Roeser{{Cite web |title=François Roeser |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/francois-roeser |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Eugène Ruppert
- François Scheffer{{Cite web |title=François Scheffer-Seyler |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/francois-scheffer-seyler |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Étienne Schmit
- Charles Schmitz (1855-1907){{Cite web |title=Charles Schmitz |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/charles-schmitz |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Jean Schoenberg
- Nicolas Steffen Pierret (1830-1999){{Cite web |title=Nicolas Steffen Pierret |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/nicolas-steffen-pierret |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Michel Stoffel
- Joseph-Germain Strock
- Gaston Thorn
- Wilhelm Voigt (the "Captain of Köpenick"){{Sfn|Dondelinger|2008|pp=39ff}}
- Jupp Wagner
- Batty Weber{{Cite web |title=Batty Weber (Weber-Brugmann family plot) |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/batty-weber-weber-brugmann-family-plot |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Paul Weber{{Cite web |title=Paul Weber |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/node/97197 |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Nik Welter
- Lucien Wercollier
- Pierre Werner
- Auguste van Werveke
- Jacques Wester{{Cite web |title=Dr. Jacques Wester (Wester-Pretemer family mausoleum) |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/dr-jacques-wester-wester-pretemer-family-mausoleum |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Guillaume Weydert{{Cite web |title=Captain Guillaume Weydert |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/captain-guillaume-weydert |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Jean-Édouard Wolff (1851-1938){{Cite web |title=Edouard Wolff |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/edouard-wolff |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Henri Woquier (1852–1921{{Cite web |title=Henri Woquier |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/henri-woquier |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Jean Worré (1816–1901){{Cite web |title=Jean Worré |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/jean-worre |website=City of Luxembourg}}
- Jean-Antoine Zinnen{{Cite web |title=Jean-Antoine Zinnen |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/node/97191 |website=City of Luxembourg}}{{Sfn|Dondelinger|2008|p=35f}}
- Ernest Vander Linden
- Albert Jean-Marie Baron Keucker de Watlet
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Gallery
File:VOIGT Niklosk.jpg|Grave of the "Captain of Köpenick"
File:Paul Eyschen tomb 01.jpg|Grave of Paul Eyschen (1841-1915).
File:Luxembourg L Wercollier tomb 01.jpg|Building where ceremonies take place. Foreground: the grave of Lucien Wercollier.
File:Luxembourg cimetière Notre-Dame platanes 02.jpg|Tree avenue to the ceremonial building.
File:Plakett 1Glaciskapell.jpg|This memorial plaque to the first Glacis chapel (1628-1796) stood at the entrance until the start of the construction works for the tramway
Footnotes
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References
- {{Cite journal |last=Dondelinger |first=Patrick |date=1 January 2008 |title=Le glacis de la forteresse de Luxembourg, lieu(e) de mémoire nationale |url=https://persist.lu/ark:70795/64256jw99/pages/7/articles/DTL807 |journal=Hémecht |language=fr |volume=60 |issue=1 |pages=5–78}}
Further reading
- Kartheiser, R. 1973. "Den Nikloskierfech". In: Die Warte. Luxembourg. - Vol. 26 (1973), No. 25 (4 October), p. [4]; No. 27 (18 October), p. [4]; No. 28 (25 October), p. [4]; No. 29 (8 November), p. [4].
External links
{{Commons category|Cimetière Notre-Dame (Luxembourg)|Notre-Dame Cemetery}}
- {{Cite web |date=1 November 2018 |title=VIDEO: Nikloskierfecht: Traditioun a Geschicht vum intressanteste Stater Kierfecht |trans-title=VIDEO: St. Nicholas Graveyard: Tradition and history of the most interesting graveyard of the capital |url=https://www.rtl.lu/news/national/a/1261378.html |access-date=30 January 2024 |website=rtl.lu |language=lb}}
- {{Cite web |title=Interesting graves in Notre-Dame Cemetery |url=https://www.vdl.lu/en/visiting/art-and-culture/architecture-et-patrimoine/interesting-graves-notre-dame-cemetery |access-date=29 January 2024 |website=City of Luxembourg}}
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