Old cemetery (Neubrandenburg)

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The former cemetery chapel, also known "as Buttel chapel" built in 1864
Grave obelisk of the Siehl family, last grave monument on the site of the former old cemetery

The old cemetery in Neubrandenburg was a Protestant cemetery in today's Katharinenviertel.

history

As early as the 18th century there were efforts in Neubrandenburg to create a new burial place outside the old town for reasons of capacity and hygiene. As an example, Land Syndic Johann Gottlieb Pistorius (1708–1780), whose tomb has been preserved to this day, demonstratively buried himself outside the city on a promontory between two ponds in front of the Lange Wall north of today's old town. However, this did not change anything at first. For a quarter of a century, Pistorius remained alone in the corridor and the area around his grave never developed into a general burial place.

The burial ground in Neubrandenburg, known as the "Old Cemetery" , was laid out in 1804 after continued pressure from the government and long discussions among the citizens. At the same time, no new burials were allowed in the traditional cemeteries, which were located around the churches within the city wall or as "Wüster Kirchhof" in the north of the city center. The old cemetery occupied the area behind the property on Scheunenstrasse (today part of Woldegker Strasse ), Tilly-Schanzen-Strasse and Katharinenstrasse. It was used jointly by all Christian parishes. The first burial took place on October 8, 1805, the last burials took place in 1943.

When the capacity of the cemetery was no longer sufficient, the significantly larger New Cemetery was built around 1920 . From the 1960s, starting with the construction of three high-rise residential buildings, the cemetery area was closed and gradually cleared and built over. In the late 1980s, the remaining area was completely built on with large-panel new blocks. An inventory of the remaining tombs was never made.

Today only the former cemetery chapel, a Buttel building from the 19th century, and a single preserved tomb, remind of this former cemetery. Allocation directories do not exist (anymore) for this.

Graves of famous people

Between 1805 and the early 1920s, the old cemetery was the only burial place in the city of Neubrandenburg. The hereditary burials of all Neubrandenburg families were located here, including two grave chapels. All deceased from Neubrandenburg families, provided they were buried in Neubrandenburg, found their final rest here during this period. All of these grave sites no longer exist today. Photos of individual grave monuments appear very rarely.

The following were buried here:

Jewish Cemetery

Originally the cemetery of the Jewish community in Neubrandenburg, which had existed since 1864, was opposite the old cemetery on Scheunenstrasse and the corner of Feldstrasse. After the Jewish cemetery was closed in 1940 as a result of the termination of the lease, a few dead were reburied in the old cemetery. In 1966 another relocation took place in the south-western area of ​​the cemetery. The graves were, however, not well cared for and quickly overgrown. In the mid-1970s, the dead bones were reburied and the tombstones were first stored by the Neubrandenburg stonemason Dassow, and later by the city. In 2008, 18 of these tombstones were integrated into a memorial at the site of the former synagogue in Poststrasse, and two more are in the municipal museum.

literature

  • Burkhard Prehn: The old cemetery on Katharinenstrasse. For the 200th anniversary of the inauguration of the first cemetery in front of the city (October 4, 1805). In: Neubrandenburger Mosaik, Vol. 29 (2005), pp. 43–51.
  • The old cemetery and the "Katharinenviertel". In: Joachim Milster; Horst Beyermann: Neubrandenburg - Us Hüsung. Verlag Steffen, Friedland (Meckl.) 2004. ISBN 3-937669-11-6 . Pp. 35-43.

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Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 27 ″  N , 13 ° 16 ′ 24 ″  E