Bogenhausen cemetery

The Bogenhausener cemetery , officially Cemetery Bogenhausen or cemetery of St. George called, is a cemetery in the late Baroque Church of St. George in the right Isar located -Hochufer Munich district of Bogenhausen .

The small cemetery has developed into the preferred burial place of prominent artists since the middle of the 20th century and is therefore a reflection of Munich and German cultural and intellectual history. The 208 grave sites available are subject to special requirements for grave acquisition.

Gravestone of Rainer Werner Fassbinder in Bogenhausen

Grave of Johann von Lamont in Bogenhausen

Grave of Joachim Fernau in Bogenhausen

history

The cemetery was probably laid out as early as the 9th century and served as a resting place for the long-established Bogenhausen families. In 1892 Bogenhausen was incorporated into Munich, but the former village cemetery was not taken over by the city of Munich until 1902. In 1952 it was completely redesigned, in 1959 the urban part, cemetery 3 and the adjoining wall graves, were redesigned in a more relaxed manner.

terrain

The cemetery is located on the Bogenhauser Kirchplatz directly at St. George's Church and is surrounded by an ivy-covered cemetery wall and divided into three grave fields.

The old, southern part with the adjoining wall graves belongs to the parish church foundation Heilig Blut, almost the entire northern part together with wall graves and urn niches belongs to the state capital Munich.

The rest period for corpses and ashes from the age of 11 is 15 years.

A number of prominent and elected Munich residents, artists, scientists, politicians, civil servants and entrepreneurs have received a memorial at the cemetery. Nevertheless, modest graves with wrought iron, painted crosses and small tombstones dominate the picture, very different from the other, large cemeteries with their mausoleums, marble sculptures or stone angels.

Grave acquisition

Requirements for acquiring a right to use a grave are:

1. a free grave site shown in the distribution plans,
2. the presence of a current death and
3. a place of residence of the deceased for at least 30 years at the time of the day of death in the city district quarters: 13.35, 13.71, 13.72, 13.73, 13.74 south of the Isarring and 13.75
4. or - at the discretion of the city of Munich - the deceased is a well-known personality who has made a special contribution to the state capital of Munich.

Personalities

Along with other personalities, they found their final resting place in the Bogenhauser Friedhof:

• Actor Rolf Boysen (1920–2014)
• Writer Joseph Breitbach (1903–1980)
• Actor, director Gerd Brüdern (1920–1968)
• Director Helmut Dietl (1944-2015)
• Fashion entrepreneur Max Dietl
• Actor Friedrich Domin (1902–1961)
• Dramatist Tankred Dorst (1925-2017)
• Film producer Bernd Eichinger (1949–2011)
• Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982)
• Theater musician Max Christian Feiler (1904–1973)
• Writer Joachim Fernau (1909–1988)
• Actor Helmut Fischer (1926–1997)
• Writer Oskar Maria Graf (1894–1967)
• Actor Robert Graf (1923–1966)
• Press chief NSDAP Ernst Hanfstaengl (1887–1975)
• Publicist Wilhelm Hausenstein (1882–1957)
• Actress Margot Hielscher (1919-2017)
• Actress Gisela Hoeter (1922-2010)
• Architect and cartoonist Ernst Hürlimann (1921–2001)
• Writer Erich Kästner (1899–1974)
• Actress Liesl Karlstadt (Elisabeth Wellano) (1892–1960)
• Actor Alexander Kerst (1924-2010)
• Conductor Hans Knappertsbusch (1888–1965)
• Writer Annette Kolb (1870–1967)
• Actor Werner Kreindl (1927–1992)
• Astronomer and director of the Bogenhausen observatory Johann von Lamont (1805–1879)
• Director Hans Lietzau (1913–1991)
• Architect Hansjakob Lill (1913–1967)
• Actor Siegfried Lowitz (1914–1999)
• Music producer Monti Lüftner (1931–2009)
• Writer Peter de Mendelssohn (1908–1982)
• Set designer Emil Preetorius (1883–1973)
• Journalist Hermann Proebst (1904–1970)
• Anatom Benno Romeis (1888–1971)
• Sculptor Karl Romeis (1895–1960)
• Portrait painter Karl Friedrich Roth (1890–1960)
• Entrepreneur Josef Schörghuber (1920–1995)
• Fashion designer Heinz Schulze-Varell
• Director and actor Hans Schweikart (1895–1975)
• Actor Walter Sedlmayr (1926–1990)
• Astronomer Hugo von Seeliger (1849–1924)
• Mayor and brickworks owner Josef Selmayr Jr. (1851–1909)
• Court astronomer Johann Georg von Soldner (1776–1833)
• Politician Hans-Jochen Vogel (1926-2020)
• Actor Peter Vogel (1937–1978)
• Actor Rudolf Vogel (1900–1967)
• Actor Gustl Waldau (Gustav Theodore Clemens Robert Freiherr von Rummel) (1871–1958)
• Actor Carl Wery (1897–1975)
• Astronomer Alexander Wilkens (1881–1968)
• Sculptor Hans Wimmer (1907–1992)
• Actress Maria Wimmer (1911–1996)
• Patent attorney and pacifist Freda Wuesthoff (1896–1956)

literature

• Dagmar Bäuml-Stosiek, Katharina Steiner The Bogenhausen cemetery - the cemetery for Munich and global citizens . MünchenVerlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-937090-42-9
• Lioba Betten - Thomas Multhaup: Die Münchner Friedhöfe - Guide to Places of Remembrance , MünchenVerlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-7630-4056-8 , pp. 90–93

Web links

Commons : Bogenhausener Friedhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bogenhausen cemetery
• Muenchen.de: Catholic branch church St. Georg Munich-Bogenhausen
• Bogenhausen cemetery plan
• Archdiocese of Munich: The cemetery of St. Georg in Munich-Bogenhausen (PDF file; 358 kB)

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '52.3 "  N , 11 ° 36' 5.5"  E