Bessunger cemetery

Darmstadt tomb for Arnold Mendelsohn

The Bessunger Friedhof is a cemetery in Darmstadt-Bessungen .

history

When the Bessung cemetery became too narrow around the church, the Bessung citizens were only able to consecrate the new cemetery on Seekatzstrasse after lengthy negotiations in May 1839. You had to respond to the request of Grand Duke Ludwig II and move the cemetery away from the desired location directly on Klappacher Strasse to the east of the orangery garden. The cemetery was laid out as a regular rectangle in the same way as the old cemetery .

A new mourning hall replaced an open morgue in the southeast corner in June 1966.

The spatially very cramped cemetery was last expanded in 1970 on the south-western side. With that he moved into the immediate vicinity of the orangery garden.

Numerous significant tombs testify to the importance of the Bessunger citizens.

A sandstone sculpture , "Child with Jug", by Robert Cauer the Younger , is on the grave of Darmstadt's honorary citizen and composer Arnold Mendelssohn (grave: Wall 33).

Graves of famous personalities

• Helmut Böhme
• Heinrich Delp
• Karl August Feder
• Jonathan Heimes
• Arnold Mendelssohn
• Karl Noack
• Alfred pupil
• Philipp Waldhelm
• Georg Wiesenthal
• Gabriele Wohmann

literature

• Article cemeteries. In: Historischer Verein für Hessen (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Darmstadt. Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-8062-1930-2 , pp. 274-277.
• Karin Diegelmann, Barbara Obermüller: Places of calm and strength. Important women in Darmstadt's cemeteries. Darmstadt 2003.
• Stadtlexikon Darmstadt , Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 2006, p. 276
• Monument topography, Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Hesse, City of Darmstadt , 1994, p. 452, ISBN 3-528-06249-5

Web links

• Cemeteries: Darmstadt

Coordinates: 49 ° 51 ′ 27 "  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 23.4"  E