Old Cemetery (Wiesbaden)
The old cemetery is a former cemetery in Wiesbaden that has been converted into an amusement park.
history
After the old cemetery on the Heidenmauer had to close due to a lack of space, the cemetery on Platter Straße, not far from the Riederberg restoration that was built in 1831, was inaugurated in 1832. Among other things, it served as the resting place for the House of Nassau and, with numerous monuments, was considered one of the most beautiful cemeteries in Germany. In 1877, it was decided to lay out the north cemetery about one kilometer to the north-west, where the burials took place from then on. Until 1955, burials were only carried out in the existing family tombs .
Todays use
In 1973 the facility was rededicated as a leisure and recreation park, which was opened in 1977. Playgrounds and barbecue areas were built in the center of today's site . In 2010, the facilities were comprehensively renewed for 500,000 euros and a skate park and a climbing area were built.
Graves
Over 27,000 people have been buried in the cemetery. A total of 128 grave monuments could be preserved, some of which had to be implemented through the redesign. There are still a number of old tombstones as well as mausoleums and the like on the site. a. for Pauline von Nassau .
Personalities
The following well-known people, among others, were buried in the Old Cemetery:
- Georg Baring (1773–1848), officer
- Emil August von Dungern (1802–1862), politician
- Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818–1897), chemist, privy councilor and founder and director of the chemical laboratory in Wiesbaden (today: SGS Institut Fresenius )
- Johann Jacob Höppli (1822–1876), sculptor and modeller
- Philipp Hoffmann (1806–1889), architect and city builder
- Friedrich Lang (1822–1866), Nassau lawyer and politician
- Wilhelm Lanz (1829–1882), former mayor of Wiesbaden
- Alexander Pagenstecher (1828–1879), ophthalmologist and founder of the ophthalmic institute
- Double grave of the writer couple Adolf Stahr (1805–1876) and Fanny Lewald (1811–1889)
- Karl Rossel (1815–1872), secretary of the Association for Nassau Antiquities and Historical Research
- Karl Schnaase (1798–1875), lawyer and art historian
- Christian Zais (1770–1820), architect and Wiesbaden city planner. The grave was transferred here from the cemetery on the Heidenmauer
literature
- Josef Quetsch: Wiesbaden. City and landscape in the past and present. Nero-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1957
- Hans-Georg Buschmann: The north cemetery of Wiesbaden and its predecessors. History, funeral customs and rites, tombs. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-631-42297-0
- Albert Herrmann: Graves of famous people and people who have become known in public life in the Wiesbaden cemeteries. Schellenberg Publishing House, Wiesbaden 1928
Web links
- Old cemetery on wiesbaden.de
- Recreational area Alter Friedhof on wiesbaden.de
- Old cemetery gets a new face , report and pictures of the renovation ( page no longer available )
- http://www.friedhoefe-wiesbaden.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ C. Spielmann / F. Krake, The Development of the Soft Image of the City of Wiesbaden since the End of the 18th Century, Atlas with accompanying text, Frankfurt a. M. 1987, p. 10
- ↑ Old cemetery on wiesbaden.de
- ↑ a b Alter Friedhof leisure area on wiesbaden.de
- ↑ Old cemetery: Off to the climbing landscape ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: Frankfurter Rundschau , October 18, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2011
- ↑ Mario Bohrmann, Das Höppli-Haus, Zierrat für Wiesbaden, lilienjournal, Wiesbadener Stadtansichten, p. 15
- ↑ See photos at Commons
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '22.4 " N , 8 ° 13' 52.8" E