Jewish cemetery Vorwerk, Lübeck

Entwurf © 2010 G|tB

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Zugang mit Hauptweg (Fertigstellung Frühjahr 2013) © 2013 IM G-LA

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Hauptgrabfeld mit Querweg (Fertigstellung Frühjahr 2013) © 2013 IM G-LA

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Interkonfessionelles Grabfeld (Fertigstellung Frühjahr 2013) © 2013 IM G-LA

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Geplante Trauerhalle © 2010 HHL

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Entwurf © 2010 G|tB

Zugang mit Hauptweg (Fertigstellung Frühjahr 2013) © 2013 IM G-LA

Hauptgrabfeld mit Querweg (Fertigstellung Frühjahr 2013) © 2013 IM G-LA

Interkonfessionelles Grabfeld (Fertigstellung Frühjahr 2013) © 2013 IM G-LA

Geplante Trauerhalle © 2010 HHL

The new Jewish Cemetery Vorwerk is currently being built on the grounds of the Vorwerk Cemetery in Lübeck.
A 5,000 square meter area is available, on which approx. 530 gravesites will be created for the members of the Jewish Community Lübeck.
The realization is planned in three construction phases. The first construction phase, which was financed entirely by foundation funds, will be completed in spring 2013. With it, the basic framework of the new cemetery was laid out, i.e. paths, hedges, fences and areas for the graves.

Until now, the Jewish community of Lübeck has used the historic cemetery in Lübeck-Moisling, where the first burial ground was established in the 17th century. The cemetery is now fully occupied, and no further space is available.
In 2012, the Jewish community of Lübeck received a decision from the city council to create a new Jewish cemetery in the southeastern part of the Vorwerk cemetery on an area that had been earmarked for burials but was previously unused.
The concept for the new Jewish cemetery in Vorwerk, developed by the Groth und ter Balk planning consortium, is strictly oriented towards the burial rituals of the Jewish faith. The graves are consistently arranged in an east-west direction, so that the dead can look east towards Jerusalem at their resurrection. This predetermined orientation towards the sky results in a strictly linear basic structure, which deviates from the grave arrangement in a Christian cemetery. This strictness is broken up by an arched main path with a paved brick surface. It runs between the two main entrances and at the same time connects two differently sized plazas at the edge of the cemetery area.
In addition, the construction of a mourning hall is planned in the area of the larger plaza at the eastern edge.

The entire area is laid out as a large, open lawn, since according to Jewish beliefs no burials may take place under tree canopies. The area is subdivided by transverse paths running in a north-south direction with a water-bound surface. The resulting smaller lawns can then gradually be used as burial areas.
A long, double-row hedge band of copper beech also divides the entire cemetery into an area for Orthodox burials and an area for interdenominational burials. Here, among other things, spouses who do not belong to the Jewish faith can be buried.
A 1.20 m high, two-row yew hedge was planted as a surrounding enclosure of the area, into which a fence is integrated in the middle.
Some large existing trees could be preserved, they are predominantly located in the interdenominational area. New birch plantings were made in the peripheral areas of the site.

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Planning offices

Groth-LA / Bernd Groth Landscape architect
Zarpen

Gunnar ter Balk Landschaftsarchitekt BDLA

Employees
Ingrid Max, Romy Engel

Further planners involved
Hochbau
Heske Hochgürtel Lohse Architekten und Ingenieure
Lübeck

Project period
2010 - 2014

Size
5.000 qm

Client
Jüdische Gemeinde Lübeck

Address
Friedhofsallee 83
23554 Lübeck

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Project type
Parks and green spaces