Municipal Cemetery Iserlohn

The municipal cemetery is a partially listed site located north of Oestricher Straße and west of Dortmunder Straße in Iserlohn in the Märkischer Kreis.
The site, featuring a crossroads and surrounding paths, consists of various sections. Section I was established in 1827 and has been expanded to the north since 1846 to include sections II-IV. This part is referred to by the local population as the Old Cemetery. Beginning in 1879, an expansion to the west created sections V and VI. The grave monuments from the 19th and 20th centuries, made of iron or stone, reflect the intertwined structure of Iserlohn's entrepreneurial families. The section contains gravestones from the initial burials. They are differentiated by social status; family grave count boards can be found within the fields, as well as neoclassical column and pillar monuments adorned with diverse symbols of death on the periphery. On the wall between the old cemetery and sections V and VI, primarily historical gravestones exist as finials or monuments with figurative decorations. The gravestones of the families Eichelberg, Herbers, Möllmann, Schrimpff, and Kissing are decorated with marble sculptures by Robert Cauer the Elder. The cemetery chapel located to the north is a hall building with a gallery. It was constructed from 1935 to 1939 according to the design of the Dortmund architect Josef Wentzler and forms a village-like group with the auxiliary buildings in a Heimat style.

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