Andreasfriedhof (Braunschweig)

Grave of Ludwig Otto Bleibtreu , founder of the chicory factory Ludwig Otto Bleibtreu , in March 2015.

The Andreasfriedhof in the northern ring area in Braunschweig is a historical cemetery that was laid out in 1802. Today the facility is largely unused. The former cemetery of the Evangelical Lutheran Andreasgemeinde is bordered with a fence and is located higher than the rest of the area on Hamburger Straße and borders on Wendenring and Hasenwinkel. In order to compensate for the difference in height, a wall was built around the facility. Originally there were two cemeteries here, the southern one belonged to the Katharinengemeinde and was taken over by the Andreasgemeinde in 1862, which in turn handed over its second cemetery on the Rebenring, which was adjacent to the Katharinenfriedhof , to the Katharinengemeinde.

history

The members of the Andreaskirche, the parish church of the Neustadt , were originally buried directly at the Andreaskirche. In place of this cemetery, the place "An der Andreaskirche" was created. When the medieval churches of Braunschweig began to move their cemeteries from the city center in front of the city gates in the 17th and 18th centuries, the St. Andrew's Church also laid a new cemetery in front of the Neustadttor. When Braunschweig's fortifications were expanded and widened from 1692 to 1741 , the cemetery at Neustadttor had to give way. The cemetery was closed in 1705. Since the Andreasgemeinde could not find a suitable new area in front of the Neustadttor, they created a cemetery on Rebenstrasse (today Rebenring) in front of the Wendentor, which actually belonged to the Hagens area and the Katharinenkirche located there. The cemetery on Rebenstrasse was used from 1721. Next door was the Katharinenfriedhof, which was laid out in 1706. After 1753 the cemetery was expanded twice. In 1753 the garrison cemetery was added.

Two tombstones for several people named "Gauss".

Since the cemetery on Rebenstrasse was no longer sufficient, the Andreasfriedhof on Hamburger Strasse was created in 1841. The Andreasgemeinde acquired the property in 1837. The Katharinenkirche had a second cemetery there since 1802.

On January 30, 1868, an exchange of the cemeteries was approved by the Ministry. The Andreasfriedhof was expanded to include the former cemetery grounds of the Katharinenkirche and the cemetery of the Andreaskirche on Rebenstrasse was assigned to the Katharinenfriedhof. As a result, both the Andreasgemeinde and the Katharinengemeinde had each created connected cemeteries.

With the inauguration of the Braunschweig Central Cemetery (today's main cemetery) on October 1, 1887, the old decentralized cemeteries were no longer needed and gradually closed. The Andreasfriedhof was also no longer occupied and was later de-dedicated. After the right to rest at the Andreasfriedhof expired in the 20th century, the facility remained unused. On September 14, 1977, the bones and tombstone of Johann Joachim Eschenburg were moved from the Andreasfriedhof to the Magnifriedhof on Ottmerstrasse.

Initially, only a day-care center (the St. Andreas Kindergarten) was built in the northern part. It opened in September 1997. Lebenshilfe Braunschweig leased a 4000 square meter plot of land on the former cemetery grounds from the Andreasgemeinde. From 2011 to 2013 a new building for a special needs kindergarten and a support center was built on this part.

Tombs and burials

Three tombstones

• Johann Karl Berkhan (November 21, 1709 - May 18, 1782), pastor of St. Andreas
• JG Bierbaum († 1844)
• Ludwig Otto Bleibtreu (1752-1820)
• Juliane Büttner († 1816)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Demmer
• Johann Joachim Eschenburg (1743–1820), literary historian and university professor
• A. Fanger (1839-1884)
• Hein. Aug. Koch and next to it the tombstone of his wife
• Heinrich Lachmann (1797–1872), pedagogue, doctor and biologist, son of Karl Lachmann
• Family soul

literature

• Jürgen Hodemacher : Braunschweig's streets - their names and their stories. Volume 2: Okergraben and city ring. Cremlingen 1996, ISBN 3-927060-12-7 .
• Jürgen Hodemacher: Braunschweig's streets - their names and their stories. Volume 3: Outside the city ring. Braunschweig 2001, ISBN 3-926701-48-X .
• Heinz-Joachim Tute, Norman-Mathias Pingel: Cemeteries. In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 76 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Topping- out ceremony for the new children's and family center on Lebenshilfe-braunschweig.de

Remarks

1. ↑ It is probably the merchant Julius Georg Bierbaum (born April 16, 1761 in Braunschweig; † July 7, 1844 there ). From 1807 to 1813 member of the imperial estates for the Oker department and brother of the businessman Heinrich Wilhelm Bierbaum .
2. ↑ possibly related to the Demmer family, see “Demmersches Haus” = Huneborstelsches Haus
3. ↑ First buried in the Andreasfriedhof, in 1977 reburied in the Magnifriedhof (see photo of the tombstone there).
4. ↑ possibly industrial family Seele

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 '32 "  N , 10 ° 31' 12.3"  E