Update January 2020: my favourite gravesite that I sometimes have taken care of in the past years, has just been transformed into the graveyard of a famous person from Hamburg, Jan Fedder
(Wondering what happened to the original grave plate that came off and was standing in front of the monument for ages? Hope it is well kept and preserved.)
These are my photos from 2007 and 2018, I want to look for the ones I took earlier, when I first started to visit this gravesite repeatedly. I pulled out the green to find the gravestones in the middle. There were several plants, the planted „Bodendecker“ (groundcover), very nasty blackberry, and some pretty farn on the edges near the rusty iron fencing.
I had written to the cemetery office and asked for information about this grave. And if I could possibly take care of it. The answer was negative, as the site was held privately. But nobody cared for it.
This is how the Breuer grave looked once, in full beauty and new.
Photo from December 2007, this is when I first got interested in this place, locaded along the Kapellenallee near the roundabout on Ohlsdorf cemetery – the largest park cemetery in the world!
The ground cover had overgrown the side paths and the center with the black gravestone laying on the ground were covered by it too. The sunshine caught my attention onto this beautiful grave stone and monument.
I came by again with some tools to take out much of the green, so that the grave many grave stones in the middle, in front of the monument, appeared again, and the names of those buried here.
This is a decade later, in 2018. The entrance gate has been removed since my last photos (I shall find more from 2007 hopefully). It must have been a pretty place to walk in. In the rounds towards the front I think there were benches to sit down at.
Also, the rhododendron bushes have been cut down. That is done frequently every few years, as they grow huge, cover the sites and give much shade which is not always good for the gravesite, during rainy times. Also you can see more blackberries.
The blackberry has gone wild allover this site, sadly, too much for me to take out.
You can see the original plaque with the inscript of the deceased having fallen down here.
You can also see that the beautiful needle tree right behind, giving the monument a nice background, has died since 2007.
All the next photos are from July 2018
Beautiful, but impossible to get through to the monument!
Pretty farn has overgrown the blackberry, has overgrown the groundcover – has overgrown the gravestones and again names of those fellow Hamburger’s buried here over 100 years ago…
It was dry in summer, so the entrance area is naturally kept free from overgrowing.
