Old Cemetery (Darmstadt)
The old cemetery in Darmstadt is now considered the historically most important cemetery in Darmstadt . It was built in 1828 on Nieder-Ramstädter Straße in the Bessunger district. It was expanded several times, most recently in 1894. The old cemetery is now a listed building . More than 60 graves are preserved as monuments or honorary graves from change or dissolution. There are numerous tombs of well-known Darmstadt personalities in the cemetery. The old cemetery was largely spared from being destroyed by bombing during World War II. Since it was foreseeable at the beginning of the 20th century that the old cemetery would no longer be sufficient, the city architect August Buxbaum designed a new, much larger cemetery in a wooded area west of Darmstadt, the Waldfriedhof Darmstadt 1913–1922.
The old cemetery covers an area of 13.5 hectares.
Graves of famous personalities
- Friedrich Back (art historian)
- Otto Bartning
- Ludwig Bergstrasse
- Otto Berndt
- Kaspar Josef von Biegeleben
- Hans Christian Blech
- Franz Boerner
- Ludwig Büchner
- Luise Büchner
- Robert Cauer the Younger
- Karl Deppert
- Wilhelm Diehl
- Julius Karl Friedrich Dilthey
- Christian Eckhardt (geodesist)
- Kasimir Edschmid
- Ludwig Engel
- Karl Esselborn
- Hermann Falck
- Johann Heinrich Felsing
- Torsten Fenslau
- Friedrich von Flotow
- Eckhart G. Franz
- Georg Froeba
- Heinrich von Gagern
- Heinrich Julius Glückert
- Karl Gruber (architectural historian)
- Sepp Gussmann
- Ludwig Habich
- Well hawk
- Family grave Christian and Ferdinand von Herff
- Georg Gottlieb Hahn (Grand Ducal Hessian Lieutenant General)
- Gerhard F. Hering
- Christian of Hessen-Darmstadt
- Ludwig Georg Karl of Hessen-Darmstadt
- Helmut Hild
- Ludwig Hoffmann (architect)
- Ludwig von Hofmann
- Heinrich von Hügel
- Oskar von Hutier
- Justus Georg Kahlert
- Hermann Kaiser (theater critic)
- Johann Jakob Kaup
- Wilhelm Köhler (entrepreneur)
- Adolf Korell
- Erika Koeth
- Ernst Kreuder
- Georg von Küchler
- Edmund Külp
- Elisabeth Langgässer
- Ilse Langner
- Frieder W. Lichtenthaler
- Otto Liman from Sanders
- August Lucas
- Pit Ludwig
- Bruno Maderna
- Carl Amand Mangold
- Paul Meissner (architect)
- Emanuel Merck
- Louis Merck
- Günther Metzger
- Ludwig Metzger
- Wilhelm Michel
- Georg Moller
- Adolf Morneweg
- Heiner Müller-Merbach
- Rudolf Mueller (politician, 1869)
- Ernst Elias Niebergall
- August Noack
- Joseph Offenbach
- Albrecht Ohly
- Joseph Maria Olbrich
- Arthur Osann senior
- August Parcus
- Wilhelm Petersen (composer)
- Gerhard O. Pfeffermann
- Karl Plagge
- Wilhelm of Ploennies
- Julius Reiber
- Theodor Reh
- Christian Heinrich Rinck
- Family grave Otto Röhm
- Gustav Römheld
- Otto Roquette
- Karl Rothe
- Heinz Winfried Sabais
- Liman from Sanders
- Carl Schenck
- Friedrich August Schäffer
- Emil Schenck
- Ernst Schleiermacher family grave
- Gotthelf Schlotter
- Ernst August Schnittspahn
- Family grave of Johann Baptist Scholl
- Ulla Scholl family grave
- Gottfried Schwab
- Fritz Schwarzbeck
- Nikolaus Schwarzkopf
- Wilfried Seyferth
- Family grave Heidenreich von Siebold
- Adolf Spieß
- Hugo stintzing
- Robert Stromberger
- Wolfgang Sucker
- Karl you Thil
- Hermann Tomada
- Heinrich Walbe
- Gustav Waldt
- Friedrich Ludwig Weidig
- Georg Wickop
- Otto Wolfskehl
- Hermann Zapf
- Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse
- Joachim Ziegler
- Ernst Zimmermann (theologian)
Varia
There are 39 honorary graves of the city of Darmstadt in the old cemetery . Information about the respective honorary grave can be found directly at the grave: The honorary graves are marked with a bronze plaque. If you hold a smartphone up to the QR code on the bronze plaque, you will receive a photo of the grave and an accompanying text.
literature
- Günter Fries et al .: City of Darmstadt. (= Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse .) Vieweg, Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , pp. 265-302.
- Roland Dotzert et al .: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt . Konrad Theiss Verlag GmbH, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-1930-3 and ISBN 978-3-8062-1930-2 , pp. 274f.
- Article cemeteries. In: Historischer Verein für Hessen (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Darmstadt. Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-8062-1930-2 , pp. 274-277.
- Karin Diegelmann, Barbara Obermüller: Places of calm and strength. Important women in Darmstadt's cemeteries. Darmstadt 2003.
- Carlo Schneider: The cemeteries in Darmstadt , Darmstadt 1991.
- Sibylle Maxheimer: Walk from honorary grave to honorary grave , Darmstädter Echo , Friday, February 19, 2016, p. 11
Remarks
- ↑ According to Lagis, the family was one of the most important families in the 19th century. Georg Gottlieb Hahn founded the Grhzl. Hess. Artillery Regiment 25 (monument in the city), he is buried in the family grave of the family on the wall of the old cemetery.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Magistrate of the City of Darmstadt
Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '53.6 " N , 8 ° 40' 6.3" E