Old Annenfriedhof

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The chapel built in 2009

The Alte Annenfriedhof is the third Annenfriedhof and the oldest existing Annenfriedhof in Dresden . It is located in the Südvorstadt district . Together with the New Annenfriedhof it belongs to the Association of Annenfriedhöfe Dresden.

history

The Annenfriedhöfe

Graves of the second Annenfriedhof at the entrance to the Old Annenfriedhof

The Old Annenfriedhof is the third Annenfriedhof in the city of Dresden. The first Annenfriedhof was laid out around the Annenkirche in 1578 as the Annenkirchhof and was used until the end of the 18th century. In 1828 the first Anne Cemetery was closed. As early as 1712, not far from the Annenkirche on today's Sternplatz, the second Annenfriedhof was inaugurated, on which tombs were built in the following years. It owned numerous artistically valuable graves and also became a place for tombstones in the Frauenkirchhof, which was secularized until 1727 . A special feature of the second Annenfriedhof was that it served as the final resting place for all executioners in Dresden. The graves of the Kreuzkantors Johann Christoph Petritz and Basilius Petritz , as well as the founder of education for the blind in Saxony, Emanuel Gottlieb Flemming , were also found in the cemetery. The second Dresden Annenfriedhof was closed in 1854 due to lack of space and secularized until 1914. Gravestones from the second Annenfriedhof found their new location in the entrance area of ​​the third Annenfriedhof.

The old Annenfriedhof

Annendenkmal by Robert Henze , until 2010 in the old Annenfriedhof

The third Annenfriedhof was laid out on a plot of land on Hahneberg from 1847, despite violent public protests . Residents of the area, popular with tourists and builders at the time, wanted to prevent the cemetery from being built, as the heavily frequented Starckes Garten and Zum Feldschlößchen restaurants were located in the immediate vicinity of the property . Alternatives, such as the burial of the dead of the Annengemeinde in the Trinitatisfriedhof or an extension of the Annenkirchhof, had been rejected in advance, so that the third Annenfriedhof on Chemnitzer Strasse was consecrated on June 2, 1848. The first funeral took place on the same day.

The cemetery was designed by Christian Gottlieb Spieß and based on the model of the Trinity cemetery as a four-field complex. Due to its location, it was also popular as a final resting place for people who did not belong to the Annen community.

In 1863 the Alter Annenfriedhof was expanded and today's entrance area and buildings such as the mortuary, chapel and morgue were built according to plans by Johann Friedrich Eichberg . Just a few years later it became clear that the expanded area of ​​the Old Annen Cemetery was too small for the Annen community. A further expansion of the property was not possible and so the New Annenfriedhof was consecrated in 1875 as the last Annenfriedhof of the Annengemeinde.

During the bombing of Dresden in February 1945, the Alte Annenfriedhof was largely destroyed. The preserved chapel and morgue were hit by bombs in April 1945. Parts of the surrounding wall and the gravedigger house were badly damaged. In the following years parts of the cemetery were restored. The statue of Electress Anna , created by sculptor Robert Henze in 1869 , which had stood by the monument fountain in front of the Annenkirche until 1945, found its new place after 1945 in front of the celebration hall of the Old Annenfriedhof. The chapel of the Old Annenfriedhof was rebuilt in 2009. In 2010 the statue of Electress Anna was removed from the cemetery and in 2011 it was re-erected near the original location at the Annenkirche.

Graves

Memorials

Grave and memorial for 800 victims of the bombing of Dresden
Memorial for professors of the TU Dresden

In 1849 the first memorial was built on the Annenfriedhof. An obelisk commemorates 53 victims of the Dresden May uprising.

Another obelisk is located on a burial ground redesigned in 2006 for more than 800 victims of the air raids on Dresden , 592 of whom were unknown by name. The inscription on the obelisk reads: “How is the city so desolate that was full of people. All of its gates stand desolate / how the stones of the sanctuary lie in front of all the streets. He sent fire from above into my bones and let it prevail. ”Cantor Rudolf Mauersberger used these lines in his motet on the destruction of Dresden“ How is the city so desolate… ”.

During the bombing of Dresden in February 1945, numerous tombs were destroyed, including the graves of professors who had taught at the nearby TH Dresden before 1945 . From 1979 to 1983, the Dresden University of Technology redesigned the dilapidated Hettner family grave, in which the professor of art history Hermann Hettner, among others , had found his final resting place, into a memorial for eight other professors whose graves had been destroyed. Georg Helm and Gustav Zeuner, whose common family burial site had been preserved, were also included. At that time, however, it was still uncertain whether the grave would remain, as the part of the cemetery should possibly be changed. Jürgen Schieferdecker designed the memorial , and it was inaugurated on October 15, 1983. The memorial is adorned with a bust of Hettner by the sculptor Ernst Julius Hähnel . The medallion on the left of the memorial shows Hettner's first wife and was created by Ernst Rietschel .

The memorial plaque bears the inscription: “In memory of the scholars of the High Polytechnic School in Dresden who were once buried in this cemetery. The Technical University of Dresden is continuing its work and honoring its memory ”. In addition to Hermann Hettner, the following academics are thought of:

Graves of famous people

Grave of the painter Ernst Ferdinand Oehme
Clemens Müller family grave

Personalities rest in the cemetery who have achieved regional and national importance during their lifetime. The graves and tombs of:

Reconstructed and not preserved graves

Dilapidated grave of the sculptor Robert Henze
Robert Henze's grave 2011 with a new gravestone

The grave of the sculptor Robert Henze , who, among other things, created the Annendenkmal, is located in the Old Annenfriedhof . His grave was adorned with a bronze sculpture created by him, which represented a "floating ... psyche over a skull". The bronze sculpture was probably lost after World War II. A reconstruction of the grave, classified as "particularly worth preserving", failed several times; a new tombstone for Henze could only be erected in 2011. Other heavily damaged gravestones were also reconstructed, including the grave of the painter Johann Karl Ulrich Bähr between 2008 and 2012 .

The graves of:

Grave complex of the Hantzsch family:

Web links

Commons : Alter Annenfriedhof  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Christian Hasche: Complicated description of Dresden with all its external and internal peculiarities . Schwickert, Leipzig 1781, p. 705.
  2. ↑ On the controversies see Marion Stein: Friedhöfe in Dresden. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 2000, p. 100f.
  3. ^ Franz Dibelius: The Dresden Annengemeinde. Teubner, Dresden 1878, p. 23.
  4. ^ Holger Hase and Wolfgang Scheder: Dresden war graves . Edited by Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge . Dresden 2010. pp. 106-107
  5. ↑ Custody of the Technical University of Dresden (ed.): Grave of important scholars on the old Annenfriedhof Dresden. Leaflet. Technical University of Dresden, Dresden 1994.
  6. ^ Technical University of Dresden (ed.): Graves of professors of the alma mater dresdensis in cemeteries in Dresden and the surrounding area . 2nd Edition. Lausitzer Druck- und Verlagshaus, 2003, p. 6.
  7. ↑ Stein, p. 102
  8. ^ Andreas Schuhmann; Mathias Bäumel: A tiny entry in the cemetery book . Chemist Richard Seifert did not die in Dresden, but in Coswig. In: Dresdner Latest News . August 29, 2011, p. 16 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 9.3 "  N , 13 ° 42 ′ 46.6"  E