Bergfriedhof (Stuttgart)

Cemetery plan.

The Stuttgart Bergfriedhof was laid out in 1885 and is now located in the Ostheim district in the Stuttgart-Ost district . The name Bergfriedhof goes back to the original burial district, to which mainly the residents of the then Stuttgart suburb of Berg belonged.

The cemetery area covers approx. 2 hectares and is divided into sections 1–19 with approx. 3500 graves. Departments 6, 9 and 15-17 no longer exist today. On the cemetery grounds there is a service building (at the main entrance), a morgue and three memorials for those who died in the two world wars. In the vicinity of the cemetery are the Rotenbergstrasse residential colony, the Lukaskirche , the Ostheim secondary school, the Karl-Olga-Hospital and the main customs office.

history

The cemetery was rebuilt in 1885 with sections 1, 2, 4 and 5. From 1891 to 1894 it was expanded to the west by sections 7 and 8 and in 1901 to today's western border. In the east, departments 3 and 18 were added in 1897 and department 19 in 1904. Almost half of the originally planned cemetery area of ​​almost 4 hectares was given up between 1898 and 1921 for the construction of the Lukaskirche, the Ostheim secondary school and the Rotenbergstraße residential colony.

In the entrance area behind the main entrance there was a cemetery chapel from 1886 until it was destroyed in World War II . A morgue was built in the northwest corner of the cemetery between 1900 and 1901, and the service building was built between 1903 and 1904, both according to plans by Albert Pantle . A cemetery hall was built next to the morgue between 1979 and 1981.

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  Service building with main entrance

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  Main entrance

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  Morgue

Memorials

There are three memorials in the Bergfriedhof (formerly "memorials"), two immediately next to each other in section 1 and one in section 7:

• World War I memorial : “In memory of the fallen 1914-1918”, Section 1.
• Memorial of the association for physical exercises: "Our fallen members ... of the VfL 1914-1918 / World War 1939-1945", Department 1.
• Second World War memorial: “For the fallen in 1945” with mourners by Joseph Frey and five memorial stones, section 7.

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  First World War Memorial

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  VfL memorial

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  Second World War Memorial

Graves

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Legend

# Number of the department in which the grave is located. The location of the departments is shown in the cemetery plan (see above). P Grave of a P rominenten. K Grave with K unstwerk or a grave that is remarkable for other reasons. * Year of birth. † Year of death.

Sorting

Sort a column: click the symbol in the column header. Grave / Artist column: Sorted by family name. Sort by another column: Hold down the Shift key and click the symbol . Initial sorting: according to the family name in the grave column.

Illustration	#	P	K	dig	*	†	Artist / object
	08	P		Karl Behringer, master builder.	1864	1916	NN, granite rock with two bronze plaques.
	01	P	K	Ernst Burghard, businessman, together with Hermann Neuner, owner of the Berg Mineralbad (“Neuner”) in Stuttgart.	1841	1921	NN, openwork cross with metal wreath of flowers.
	03		K	Karl Dempel senior, master bottle maker.	1872	1948	AM Wolff, bronze relief of a seated mourners, 1901.
	03	P	K	Luitpold Fischer, wood sculptor, health insurance officer.	1854	1927	AM Wolff, bronze relief of a seated mourners, leaning against an urn, 1901.
	04	P	K	Siegmund Franz Karl Freiherr von Gemmingen-Hornberg, private owner.	1853	1914	NN, bronze relief with crucifix.
	11		K	Ingeborg Gruber.	1929	1985	NN, covered wooden stele of Our Lady.
	01		K	Paul Haußer, foreman, building contractor.	1848	1911	Paul Haußer, sandstone monument with bronze plaque and jewelry, 1905.
	08		K	Koch-Bach family.			NN, marble relief with Christ as the good shepherd comforting a grieving woman.
	01	P		Ludwig Leuze, owner / leaseholder of the Leuze mineral bath.	1877	1944
	18th	P	K	Alfred Lörcher , sculptor.	1875	1962	Alfred Lörcher , urn on a stone base, executed by Willi Schönfeld, 1962.
	01		K	Philipp Leopold Martin , natural scientist and conservator.	1815	1885
	01		K	Wilhelm Mauz, dye works owner, water motor manufacturer.	1861	1934	Willi Schönfeld, sculpture of a mourner, kneeling on his right foot, not preserved.
	01	P		Friedrich Neuner, court gardener and founder of the Berg Mineralbad ("Neuner") in Stuttgart.	1817	1883	Strebel (sculptor), obelisk.
	10		K	Stephan Rainer.	1963	1987	NN, bronze sculpture of a Pietà.
	01	P		Paul Rießler , Catholic theologian and orientalist.	1865	1935
	18th		K	Elsbeth Roos.	1912	2007	NN, dog sculpture.
	02		K	Paul Schäfer.			NN, sculpture of a standing mourner.
	07		K	Simon Schneider, railway foreman (Schneider-Ehrmann family).			August Schneider, bronze sculpture of a standing mourner.
	08		K	Paul Schwörer.			NN, sculpture of a standing mourner.
	04		K	Wilhelm Wagner.			NN, wooden sculpture of a Madonna with the child.
	19th		K	Gustav Widmann.	1873	1944	NN, abstract tombstone sculpture.
	07		K	Sausage family.			NN, stone relief of a bird feeding its two young.

literature

• Jürgen Brand: The forgotten graves in the park of Villa Berg. In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten number 134 from November 21, 2014, page II.
• Werner Koch; Christopher Koch: Stuttgart cemetery guide. A guide to the graves of well-known personalities. Tübingen 2012, pages 124–125.
• Mammut-Verlag (publisher and editor): Stuttgart, Der Friedhofswegweiser. Stuttgart 2011, pages 32–33 (available free of charge, including at the information desk in the town hall).
• Hermann Ziegler; Richard Lachenmaier (contributions): Former Berg cemetery, former Bergfriedhof am Raitelsberg, Bergfriedhof , Stuttgart 1987, pp. 54–91.

Web links

Commons : Bergfriedhof (Stuttgart)  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : Bergfriedhof (Stuttgart)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bergfriedhof on the website of the state capital Stuttgart .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ #Mammut 2011 .
2. ↑ The departments are numbered: 1, 1a, 2–5, 7, 8, 10–14, 18 and 19.
3. ^ #Ziegler 1987 , page 59.
4. ^ # Ziegler 1987 , pp. 54-55, 84.
5. ↑ #Ziegler 1987 , pp. 75-76.

Coordinates: 48 ° 47 ′ 19.2 "  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 23.3"  E