Old Cemetery (Ludwigsburg)
The old cemetery in Ludwigsburg has numerous tombs of important personalities.
description
The cemetery, which was mainly occupied in the 19th and early 20th centuries, is located in the corner between Schorndorfer Straße, Harteneckstraße and Meiereistraße. Burials are no longer carried out there. The grave sites preserved are those of Württemberg dignitaries and various soldiers' graves. The cemetery chapel was redesigned as a memorial for the victims of the Second World War , to the east of it there is a memorial for the victims of the First World War , the war memorial 1914/18 . Various plaques and memorial stones commemorate the participants in the war of 1870/71 , the victims of tyranny and the dead of the 260th Infantry Division .
The most important grave site is that of King Wilhelm II of Württemberg (1848–1921), who lived in an earth grave in the northwest of the complex with his first wife Marie zu Waldeck and Pyrmont (1857–1882), his second wife Charlotte zu Schaumburg-Lippe (1864 –1946) and his son Ulrich, who died young, from his first marriage is buried.
The most elaborate grave site is the mausoleum for the Imperial Count and Minister of State Johann Karl von Zeppelin (1766–1801). The relief ornament The Perfected was created by Philipp Jakob Scheffauer , the figure of grieving friendship was created by Johann Heinrich Dannecker .
Other important personalities buried in the Old Cemetery include the writer David Friedrich Strauss (1808–1874), the singer Anton Schott (1846–1913), the cavalry master and Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John Maximilian von Gaisberg-Schöckingen (1821– 1913), the politician Fidel von Baur-Breitenfeld (1805–1882), the adjutant general Heinrich von Molsberg (1832–1909), the organ builder Eberhard Walcker (1850–1926), the inventor of the phosphorus match, Jakob Friedrich Kammerer (1796–1857) , Lieutenant General Friedrich Reinhard von Roeder (1780–1867) and Infantry General Kurt von Greiff (1876–1945) as well as several Lord Mayors of Ludwigsburg.
Right next to the cemetery is the Old Jewish Cemetery , where the first burial took place in 1870.
Funeral hall 1939/45
Anton Schott's tomb
Jakob Friedrich Kammerer's grave site
Warrior memorials
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If you enter the cemetery via the entrance on Schorndorfer Straße, you come across the war memorial 1939/45 , a neo-Gothic cemetery chapel consecrated in 1868 , which was redesigned as a war memorial in 1957 . On the left the path leads to the memorial of the 260th Infantry Division , on the right you reach the war memorial 1914/18 (Ludwigsburg) after 40 meters . The war memorial 1870/71 finally follows on the northeast corner of the burial ground .
A commemorative plaque from the city of Ludwigsburg for "those of their sons who lost their lives in the fight for the fatherland in 1870" is at the back of the chapel. In the southeast corner of the cemetery there is a memorial cross with the inscription “A la Mémoire des Soldats français décédés en 1870–1871” (in memory of the French soldiers who fell in 1870–1871).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Südwest Presse Online-Dienst GmbH: Last rest of the last king. November 21, 2015, accessed November 9, 2019 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ′ 48.5 ″ N , 9 ° 12 ′ 17.6 ″ E