Old Town Cemetery (Erlangen)
The Altstädter Friedhof is a cemetery in the Middle Franconian city of Erlangen . It is owned by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Old Town .
location
The old town cemetery is located east of the Regnitz on the gentle low terrace known as Martinsbühl ( 277 m above sea level ) . It is only a few hundred meters northwest of Erlangen's old town. Nevertheless, it is framed by busy traffic routes : the federal motorway 73 - the so-called Frankenschnellweg, which runs on the route of the former Ludwig-Danube-Main Canal - in the west, the motorway feeder Martinsbühler Strasse in the north and the four-track railway line Nuremberg-Bamberg in the east.
history
The Old Town Cemetery was first mentioned in 1288. Until the 17th century it was in the immediate vicinity of the old town church on today's Martin-Luther-Platz , before this church cemetery was abandoned. After the reconstruction as a result of the fire in the old town in 1706, the church was partially built over. To the north it reached roughly to the property Martin-Luther-Platz 10, east roughly to the middle and south roughly to the end of the Altstädter Kirchenplatz.
Burials in what is now the old town cemetery at Martinsbühl have only been documented since the beginning of the 18th century , with one exception during the Thirty Years' War . The cemetery had to be expanded as early as 1729. The partially preserved wall was erected. This contains a basket arch gate made of sandstone blocks , which bears the year "1732". It is framed by round columns and lateral volutes and crowned by a stately sandstone cross. In 1888 an embankment wall was built facing Martinsbühler Strasse . In 1903 another wall made of coarse box ashlar masonry was placed in front of it, which still fulfills its function today. In addition, the old town cemetery was expanded again in the 19th century, and most recently in 1966.
description
The 22,000 square meter old town cemetery stretches gently rising from south to north along the lower terrace of Martinsbühl. The north-south extension is around 300 meters, in an east-west direction it is 60 to 80 meters. Access is only through three gates on the east side (Münchener Straße). There are around 2600 graves in the cemetery , the oldest dating back to before 1800.
At the highest point of the cemetery is the Church of St. Martin - a Gothic structure that was first mentioned in 1435. Today's appearance with a massive roof turret with a Welscher hood , arched windows and arched portals crowned by triangular gables and round windows essentially goes back to a Baroque transformation in the years 1745/46.
Southeast of the cemetery church is the funeral hall built in 1853 , a single-storey hipped roof building made of sandstone with arched window and door openings. The flat canopy designed by Emil Zerler, which rests on two pilasters on the wall and four free-standing square columns , was added in 1930.
Further south, about in the middle of today's cemetery, is the former cemetery keeper's house , which, like the cemetery church and the funeral hall, is a listed building. According to the list of monuments of the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, the "picturesquely grouped building with a gable roof , mansard roof and half-hipped roof" was built in 1912 in the local style.
St. Martin Church (Martinsbühler Kirche)
Funeral hall (built 1853)
Cemetery keeper's house (built 1912)
literature
- Christoph Friedrich, Bertold Freiherr von Haller, Andreas Jakob (Hrsg.): Erlanger Stadtlexikon . W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2002, ISBN 3-921590-89-2 ( complete edition online ).
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Coordinates: 49 ° 36 ′ 9.1 ″ N , 10 ° 59 ′ 56.5 ″ E