Bergfriedhof (Tübingen)

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Forest chapel of the Tübingen mountain cemetery
Community urn grave "River of Time"
Community urn grave "Butterfly" for stillbirths and small children
War grave memorial site by Ugge Bärtle : "In honor of the dead - as a warning to us"
Memorial stone for Theodor Eimer
Gravestone of Ernst Bloch
From the air looking north

The Bergfriedhof on the Tübingen Galgenberg was officially opened in 1950 and has since been one of fourteen cemeteries, the main cemetery in the city. Previously had during the Second World War, for lack of space on the located in Käsenbachtal Stadtfriedhof first burials on the gallows near the Kallee be made height.

history

In 1945 the approximately 24 hectare site was made ready and planning and installation began immediately. The first funeral took place just 14 days later. 410 soldiers who fell in World War II and 14 Tübingen aerial warfare deaths were laid to rest in an existing oak grove. In the spring of 1948 this cemetery was redesigned under the direction of garden architect Hans Koch.

The forest chapel near the war cemetery was the first building to be inaugurated on July 16, 1950, with the active participation of the Tübingen population. After the opening of the large mourning hall with 250 seats on the Sunday of the Dead in 1969, the forest chapel was increasingly forgotten. In December 2006, on the initiative of the cemetery administration, the Tübingen municipal council decided to renovate and reopen the listed forest chapel in order to meet the request for smaller rooms with up to 40 seats. The listed chapel was reopened in October 2007.

The mountain cemetery also has modern facilities. There are, for example, communal graves such as the Garden of Time , the River of Time and a department for stillbirths, Butterfly , whose planning concept suggests a new understanding of the place “cemetery”. Muslims have so far been buried within the existing grave fields and the children's community grave site, as their location enables the corpse to be bedded towards Mecca in accordance with Islamic regulations.

Buried people

The mountain cemetery is not as prominent as the city ​​cemetery , but due to its proximity to the University of Tübingen it has some prominent buried people:

  • Ugge Bärtle (1907-1990); Sculptor.
  • Willi Karl Birn (1907-2000); District President of South Württemberg-Hohenzollern. Bearer of the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit .
  • Emma Brunner-Traut (1911-2008); Egyptologist.
  • Ernst Bloch (1885–1977); Marxist philosopher.
  • Karola Bloch b. Piotrowska (1905-1994); Architect, publicist, communist and activist in the women's and anti-nuclear movement.
  • Eberhard Braun (1941-2006); Philosopher, Marxist theorist and professor of philosophy at the University of Tübingen.
  • Helmut Calgéer (1922-2010); Musician.
  • Alfred Czarnetzki (1937-2013); Anthropologist and discoverer of four fossil finds of the genus Homo .
  • Manfred Eggstein (1927-1993); Internist.
  • Theodor Eimer (1843–1898); Zoologist. The so-called Eimer's organs of moles were named after him.
  • Gerhard Flaadt (1937-2001); Secondary school teacher as well as conductor and choir director of the Liederkranz 1837 Schwenningen e. V.
  • Theodor Eschenburg (1904-1999); Political scientist, constitutional lawyer and first professor of political science in Germany.
  • Konrad Gaiser (1929–1988); Plato interpreter and full professor of classical philology in Tübingen.
  • Helmuth von Glasenapp (1891–1963); Indologist and religious scholar.
  • Egon Gramer (1936-2014); Author, Germanist and educator.
  • Hermann Grees (1925-2009); Professor of Geography at the University of Tübingen.
  • Hartmut Gründler (1930–1977); Tübingen teacher who burned himself to death in protest against “false information” in nuclear policy.
  • Wolf-Dietrich Hardung (1927-2009); Dean of the church district Bad Cannstatt and co-founder of the peace organization “ Live without armament ”.
  • Martin Hengel (1926-2009); Protestant theologian.
  • Willi Hennig (1913-1976); Biologist.
  • Fred von Hoerschelmann (1901–1976) was a German writer and radio play author. At the request of Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, his grave was to be relocated to the Tübingen city cemetery, but the request was rejected.
  • Otto Kehr (1914-2009); Founder of the Protestant telephone pastoral care in Stuttgart and general director of the Evangelical Society.
  • Ernst Kretschmer (1888–1964); Psychiatrist. He researched the human constitution and set up a theory of types.
  • Friedrich Lang (1913-2004); Pastor and theologian and from 1956–1970 Ephorus of the Tübingen monastery.
  • Rüdiger Lutz (1953-2006); Architect, publicist, futurologist and futurologist.
  • Dieter Pohmer (1925-2013); Economist and university professor at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen.
  • Herbert Rösler (1924-2006); Artist and the founder of the Christian working and living community Group 91 (G91) in Tübingen.
  • Hans Rothfels (1891-1976); German-American historian.
  • Emilie Sauer (1874-1959); Landlady of the Tante Emilie restaurant named after her , for which the university and the city organized a torchlight procession with 3000 participants on the evening of July 25, 1951.
  • Wolfgang Schadewaldt (1900–1974); Literary scholar, classical philologist, translator and professor of classical philology.
  • Otto Heinrich Schindewolf (1896–1971); Paleontologist, professor and rector at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
  • Ursula Schröder (1916-2009); Tübingen peace activist
  • Heinrich Friedrich Siedentopf (1906–1963); astronomer
  • Martin Thust (1892-1969); from 1947 to 1960 pastor in Holzgerlingen.
  • Johannes Winkler (1874-1958); Mission doctor with an ethnological interest in the Toba-Batak culture in Sumatra.

The bell

The 400 kg historical b-bell in the funeral hall of the mountain cemetery comes from the workshop of a well-known Rococo master and bears the inscription: "CHRISTIAN LUDWIG NEUBERT GOSS ME IN LUDWIGSBURG ANNO 1763." The foundry of Christian Ludwig Neubert is known because Friedrich Schiller himself there the suggestions for his song should have taken from the bell .

The bell is decorated with garlands of fruits and fruit pendants. Its diameter is 86 cm, its height 67 cm. Since 2008, the cemetery bell can also be rung from the forest chapel using a radio remote control.

Before the bell was brought to the mountain cemetery in 1969, it rang in the ring of the Protestant St. Peters Church in Dusslingen , which had received new bells in December 1960. The bell was repaired in 2008 in the Lachenmeyer bell welding plant in Nördlingen in order to restore the original sound by repairing the broken parts of the bell.

  • Main entrance of the Tübingen Bergfriedhof

  • The funeral hall of the Tübingen mountain cemetery

  • Community urn grave "Garden of Remembrance"

  • Urn community grave "Garden of Remembrance II"

Web links

Commons : Bergfriedhof  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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  1. ^ Tübinger Stadtfriedhof 2012. Ten years after the reopening , published by the University City of Tübingen, 2012.
  2. ↑ 60 years - Bergfriedhof - a tour of development history , press release of the university town of Tübingen, press office of the university town of Tübingen, July 9, 2010.
  3. ↑ Establishment of a Muslim burial ground and a so-called cemetery ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 20 kB), report template for treatment in the administrative committee of the university town of Tübingen, template 526a / 2007, SBT / 7045, September 10, 2007.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tuebingen.de
  4. ^ Otto Buchegger: The Bergfriedhof in Tübingen. ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. TUEPPS - Tübingen Tips. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tuepps.de
  5. ↑ Martin Blümcke: Obituary for Prof. Willi Karl Birn (1907 to 2000). Swabian Heimatbund, November 2000.
  6. ^ Wilhelm Triebold: The music school remains his legacy: On the death of Helmut Calgéer. Schwäbisches Tagblatt, April 21, 2010.
  7. ↑ Gerhard Flaadt: life and work as a conductor and choirmaster at TUEpedia.
  8. ↑ Raimund Weible: With skin and hair against the atomic monster - 30 years ago, the Tübingen nuclear power opponent Hartmut Gründler burned himself. Südwest Presse Online Services, November 17, 2007.
  9. ↑ Kathinka Kaden: Obituary for Wolf-Dietrich Hardung. ( Memento of the original from 23 August 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Open Church - Evangelical Association in Württemberg. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.offene-kirche.de
  10. ↑ A strange outbreak of the backfish-like, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 16, 2010.
  11. ↑ Former eva general manager and founder of telephone counseling, Otto Kehr, has died. ( Memento from December 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Evangelical Press Service Southwest.
  12. ↑ Manfred Hantke: The student mothers and landladies Aunt Emilie and the Mammele were real legends during their lifetime: where even drunkenness was still high. ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zeit-zeugnisse.de
  13. ↑ On the death of the diverse activist Ursula Schröder from Tübingen
  14. ↑ Rudi E. Hoffarth: Faith as a matter of the heart: Instead of professor - pastor. ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Verlag am Birnbach, Birnbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-86508-999-1 . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ev-kirche-holzgerlingen.de
  15. ↑ Dorothee Hermann: Medicine and magic spells - The missionary doctor Johannes Winkler immersed himself in the culture of the Toba-Batak in Sumatra. Schwäbisches Tagblatt, September 5, 2007.
  16. ↑ Dr. med. Petra Krömer: Healing for the Kingdom of God - Johannes Winkler (1874–1958) and the Medical Mission of the Rhenish Mission Society under the Batak on Sumatra.
  17. ↑ The bell of the mountain cemetery is being restored ( memento from November 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), University City of Tübingen, September 11, 2008.

Coordinates: 48 ° 30 '18.1 "  N , 9 ° 4' 14.5"  E