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Hofstätten Cemetery
Rheinland Pfalz, Germany

76848 Hofstätten

Contributed by Recs Jenkins, Dec 16, 2006, last edited Dec 21, 2006 [cemeteries@l-s-s.net]. Total records = 147.

Hofstätten is a small village in the middle of the Pfälzer Wald National Park in the German state of Rheinland-Pfalz and which is today incorporated in the municipality of Wigartswiesen. Hofstätten lies northwest of the small town of Annweiler am Trifels.

Hofstätten was established in the Middle Ages and up until 1970 had its own elementary school. Today Hofstätten has a population of about 150. The eldest of the graves in Hofstätten's cemetery dates from 1909. The cemetery is well maintained and in excellent condition.

The re-use of grave plots in Germany is very common. You or your family rent the plot for a period of 20 to 25 years (the time period varies from state to state). When this time period is up, church or civil authorities approach your family or next of kin concerning a rental renewal. If you have no next of kin, they can't be found or your relatives elect not to renew the rental, the plot is reallocated and re-used.

The inscription "Zum Gedenken" (In memory of) on gravestones indicates, in general, that the body of the individual in question is not actually buried in the grave. In the cases of soldiers, the body was either never recovered or it was buried somewhere near the place where he was killed.

On many gravestones, an "Eisernes Kreuz" (German Iron Cross) - with or without the date of death - is used to show that the individual was a soldier either killed in action (gef. = gefallen) or missing in action (verm. = vermisst).

Contains all visual burials from tombstone inscriptions, completed by myself and Andreas Driess on 16 December 2006. For further information, in German or English, please contact me at the above address.

- Recs Jenkins

Beck, Erich, b. 1923, d. 1992, stone #76
Bimmler, Adelheid (Schoch), b. 10 Oct 1922, d. 24 May 1956, stone #13
Bimmler, Rudi, b. 10 Mar 1928, d. 03 Apr 1992, stone #74
Braun, Albert, b. 1898, d. 1980, stone #36
Braun, Berta (Heidinger), b. 1914, d. 1983, stone #02
Braun, Emma, b. 1901, d. 1989, stone #64
Braun, Friedrich, b. 1897, d. 1969, stone #05
Braun, Gustav, b. 1904, d. 1989, stone #41
Braun, Josephine (Heidinger), b. 1901, d. 1977, stone #36
Braun, Luise (Jentzer), b. 1910, d. 1981, stone #41
Braun, Oskar, b. 1906, d. 1991, stone #02
Braun, Wilhelmine, b. 1898, d. 1968, stone #05
Dully, Maria (Jentzer), b. 18 Jan 1900, d. 09 Apr 1950, stone #54
Dully, Peter, b. 08 Nov 1896, d. 20 Mar 1982, stone #54
Ecker, Camilla (Kiessner), b. 1946, d. 1983, stone #75
Fischer, Dr. Fritz, b. 1917, d. 1993, stone #42
Fischer, Karsten, b. 25 Apr 1986, d. 09 Mar 2004, stone #57
Fisseler, Franz, b. 1914, d. 2002, stone #28
Fuchs, Albert, b. 1903, d. 1985, stone #12
Fuchs, Cäcilie (Kühner), b. 1903, d. 1967, stone #12
Fuchs, Emma (Obeldobel), b. 10 Feb 1901, d. 25 Jun 1981, stone #09
Fuchs, Friedrich, b. 1897, d. 1957, stone #15
Fuchs, Gertrud (Meyer), b. 1933, d. 1985, stone #70
Fuchs, Hermann, b. 1933, d. 1990, stone #70
Fuchs, Katharina (Herter), b. 16 Jul 1876, d. 12 Mar 1959, stone #22
Fuchs, Philipp, b. 27 Mar 1895, d. 13 Jul 1984, stone #09
Fuchs, Sophie, b. 1898, d. 1990, stone #15
Fuchs, Walter, b. 1926, d. 2002, stone #15
Fuchs, Wilhelm, b. 16 May 1925, d. 20 Apr 1971, stone #09
Göttelmann, Raimund, b. 1954, d. 1998, stone #51
Haag, Ernst, b. 1912, d. 1983, stone #06
Haag, Hilda (Obeldobel), b. 1911, d. 1971, stone #06
Heidinger, Adam, b. 1898, d. 1955, stone #18
Heidinger, Dina (Herter), b. 25 Apr 1909, d. 03 Dec 1980, stone #03
Heidinger, Klaus, b. 1936, d. 1954, stone #18
Heidinger, Magdalena (Braun), b. 1900, d. 1974, stone #18
Heidinger, Philipp, b. 04 Nov 1905, d. 23 Oct 1976, stone #03
Heidinger, Philipp, b. 1951, d. 1997, stone #07
Heidinger, Walter, b. 1928, d. 1976, stone #07
Herter, Dina (Herter), b. 1922, d. 1974, stone #25
Herter, Elisabeth, b. 19 Nov 1882, d. 09 Mar 1954, stone #17
Herter, Elisabetha (Roth), b. 1898, d. 1972, stone #30
Herter, Ella (Herter), b. 1910, d. 1971, stone #11
Herter, Erhard, b. 1946, d. 1990, stone #08
Herter, Heinrich, b. 1890, d. 1933, stone #46
Herter, Heinrich, b. 1906, d. 1967, stone #11
Herter, Karl, b. 31 Aug 1934, d. 12 Mar 1979, stone #32
Herter, Katharina (Dully), b. 18 Mar 1888, d. 09 Mar 1974, stone #72
Herter, Katharina (Dully), b. 1888, d. 1945, stone #46
Herter, Konrad, b. 10 Oct 1881, d. 15 Jan 1925, stone #17
Herter, Kurt, b. 1930, d. 1976, stone #38
Herter, Oliver, b. 1970, d. 1995, stone #77
Herter, Oskar, b. 1921, d. 1999, stone #25
Herter, Valentin, b. 31 Jul 1886, d. 06 Sep 1943, stone #72
Huhn, Amalie, b. 1906, d. 1976, stone #63
Huhn, Franz, b. 1906, d. 1981, stone #63
Jentzer, Heinrich, b. 26 Mar 1876, d. 03 Aug 1959, stone #21
Jentzer, Ida (Schwab), b. 1887, d. 1971, stone #68
Jentzer, Jakob, b. 25 Apr 1852, d. 04 Aug 1910, stone #67
Jentzer, Luise (Braun), b. 05 Sep 1911, d. 03 Oct 1959, stone #14
Jentzer, Magdalena (Herter), b. 03 Mar 1879, d. 12 Dec 1964, stone #21
Jentzer, Mathilde (Obeldobel), b. 1904, d. 1996, stone #62
Jentzer, Olga (Roth), b. 13 Sep 1922, d. 21 Mar 2000, stone #61
Jentzer, Peter, b. 1883, d. 1951, stone #68
Jentzer, Ruppert, b. 1902, d. 1997, stone #62
Jentzer, Ruprecht, b. 15 Apr 1909, d. 24 Oct 1985, stone #14
Jentzer, Wilhelmina (Diesque), b. 20 Feb 1853, d. 28 Jan 1909, stone #67
Kennel, Ida (Jentzer), b. 1912, d. 2004, stone #39
Kennel, Willi, b. 16 Oct 1939, d. 14 May 1991, stone #21
Kennel, Willi, b. 1912, d. 1991, stone #39
Kiessner, Leonhard, b. 1910, d. 1983, stone #75
Krasch, Wolfgang, b. 1929, d. 2000, stone #78
Kühner, August, b. 25 Sep 1905, d. 18 Feb 1983, stone #29
Nehring, Johann, b. 11 Dec 1905, d. 18 Apr 1979, stone #69
Nehring, Johanna (Hess), b. 08 Nov 1921, d. 04 Nov 2001, stone #69
Obeldobel, Elisabetha (Semmelsberger), b. 24 Mar 1878, d. 16 Mar 1957, stone #20
Obeldobel, Friedrich, b. 1877, d. 1931, stone #43
Obeldobel, Fritzel, b. 1915, d. 1928, stone #43
Obeldobel, Heinrich Wilhelm, b. 12 May 1940, d. 30 Jun 1955, stone #19
Obeldobel, Heinrich, b. 1905, d. 1944, Eisernes Kreuz, stone #59
Obeldobel, Heinrich, b. 24 Oct 1873, d. 02 Jun 1961, stone #20
Obeldobel, Heinrich, b. 28 Nov 1837, d. 01 Jun 1931, stone #45
Obeldobel, Irene, b. 1944, d. , stone #59
Obeldobel, Katharina (Steiner), b. 1912, d. 1980, stone #10
Obeldobel, Margarete, b. 1909, d. 1991, stone #59
Obeldobel, Maria (Herter), b. 1888, d. 1978, stone #43
Obeldobel, Maria Elisabeta (Roth), b. 09 Mar 1842, d. 22 Mar 1932, stone #45
Obeldobel, Rudolf, b. 1903, d. 1971, stone #10
Obeldobel, Wlhelm Thomas, b. 16 Oct 1911, d. 10 Dec 1973, stone #19
Perdsdorf, Richard, b. 30 Oct 1907, d. 11 Jun 1995, stone #60
Roth, Arthur, b. 04 Apr 1924, d. 27 Jan 1945 Polen, Eisernes Kreuz, stone #27
Roth, Barbara (Perdsdorf), b. 1909, d. 1942, stone #37
Roth, Fritz, b. 13 Sep 1950, d. 23 May 1999, stone #53
Roth, Jakob, b. 27 Sep 1886, d. 14 Apr 1941, stone #27
Roth, Luise (Kühner), b. 21 Nov 1913, d. 07 Nov 1957, stone #23
Roth, Luise (Semmelberger), b. 03 Oct 1892, d. 25 Dec 1991, stone #27
Roth, Magdalena (Disque), b. 01 Nov 1850, d. 17 Jan 1935, stone #66
Roth, Magdalena (Perdsdorf), b. 1913, d. 1980, stone #44
Roth, Manfred, b. 05 Jan 1959, d. 16 Jul 1959, stone #56
Roth, Maria, b. 1925, d. 1992, stone #52
Roth, Peter, b. 1905, d. 1999, stone #37
Roth, Philipp, b. 03 Feb 1850, d. 23 Jun 1909, stone #66
Roth, Wilhelm, b. 1914, d. 2003, stone #44
Sack, Ernst, b. 1914, d. 1999, stone #55
Sack, Maria, b. 1917, d. 2004, stone #55
Schoch, Erna (Roth), b. 18 Oct 1902, d. 01 Mar 1992, stone #13
Schoch, Eugen, b. 29 Aug 1899, d. 23 Jun 1977, stone #04
Schoch, Franz, b. 10 Jul 1903, d. 03 Jul 1990, stone #22
Schoch, Friedrich August, b. 1909, d. 1994, stone #35
Schoch, Heinrich, no dates, stone #31
Schoch, Jakob, b. 30 May 1902, d. 25 Sep 1978, stone #13
Schoch, Lina (Braun), b. 09 May 1901, d. 23 May 1990, stone #04
Schoch, Ludwig, b. 1918, d. 1981, stone #49
Schoch, Magdalena (Bossert), no dates, stone #31
Schoch, Magdalena, b. 1894, d. 1967, stone #31
Schoch, Magdalene (Jentzer), b. 1906, d. 1991, stone #40
Schoch, Margarethe (Herter), b. 1913, d. 1987, stone #35
Schoch, Robert, b. 1930, d. 2003, stone #79
Schoch, Rosa (Fuchs), b. 28 Apr 1904, d. 05 Mar 1991, stone #22
Schoenmakers, Martha, b. 1908, d. 1997, stone #58
Schoenmakers, Richard, b. 1902, d. 1980, stone #58
Semmelsberger, Emma, b. 1900, d. 1978, stone #48
Semmelsberger, Maria Magdalena (Schoch), b. 09 Sep 1935, d. 10 Mar 1998, stone #73
Semmelsberger, Wilhelm Ludwig, b. 13 Jul 1933, d. 12 Apr 2004, stone #73
Semmelsberger, Wilhelm, b. 1897, d. 1976, stone #48
Steiner, Adam, b. 04 May 1897, d. 22 Jun 1979, stone #71
Steiner, Adam, b. 1871, d. 1932, stone #47
Steiner, Franziska (Ganter), b. 1893, d. 1980, stone #16
Steiner, Friedrich, b. 06 Dec 1899, d. 11 Feb 1984, stone #26
Steiner, Friedrich, b. 1924, d. 1998, stone #05
Steiner, Heinrich, b. 04 Jul 1925, d. 05 Mar 1943, Eisernes Kreuz; SS Schütze, stone #71
Steiner, Hermann, b. 1925, d. 1990, stone #51
Steiner, Ida (Fuchs), b. 02 Mar 1902, d. 30 Jun 1940, stone #26
Steiner, Karl, b. 1928, d. 1984, stone #50
Steiner, Karoline (Braun), b. 12 Dec 1900, d. 03 Mar 1982, stone #71
Steiner, Katharina, b. 1888, d. 1971, stone #47
Steiner, Luise (Heinz), b. 02 Oct 1906, d. 23 Aug 1989, stone #24
Steiner, Norbert, b. 1954, d. 1991, stone #05
Steiner, Philipp, b. 1890, d. 1956, stone #16
Steiner, Wilhelm, b. 21 Aug 1901, d. 05 Feb 1962, stone #24
Strube, Auguste (Liebig), b. 1886, d. 1978, stone #34
Strube, Dr. med. Johann, b. 1882, d. 1946, zum Gedanken; in Berlin, stone #34
Udich, Walter, b. 1949, d. 2001, stone #01
Wagner, Anna M. (Herter), b. 1912, d. 2002, stone #46
Weis, Margarete, b. 1916, d. 1994, stone #33
Wörzler, Erich, b. 09 Mar 1937, d. 14 Feb 1999, stone #65
Ziemann, Charlotte, b. 1907, d. 1999, stone #76