Bornstedt cemetery
The Bornstedter Friedhof is located directly opposite the Bornstedt Crown Estate in the immediate vicinity of the Potsdam Orangery . Not only the residents of Bornstedt are buried on it, but also numerous personalities. Theodor Fontane already reported: What dies in Sanssouci - is also buried in Bornstedt .
history
The churchyard of Bornstedt, which was incorporated into Potsdam in 1935, has been popular with the bourgeoisie and the nobility since the 18th century as their final resting place. The cemetery as such was laid out in 1599. Over the centuries it has been steadily expanded. Until the establishment of a separate pastor's office in 1860, the clergy of the Potsdam city parish church, from 1721 Saint Nikolai and from 1848 that of the Friedenskirche , looked after the village and the cemetery. The Elector Friedrich Wilhelm had already bought the Bornstedt estate in 1664. At that time it was under the authority of Potsdam. In the period from 1734 to 1826 it was independent. Its main task was to take care of the Great Military Orphanage in Potsdam. In 1864 it was made available to Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm as Kronfideikommissgut . A redesign of the churchyard from 1867 followed. Theodor Fontane visited the cemetery in 1869 and found the traditional use of fruit and grass by the sexton. This use was only ended ten years later. The current state goes back to the re-occupation from 1897 and a redesign in 1911 and 1912. Part 1 of the cemetery, which is under monument protection, is no longer occupied. It is divided into five parts and the Sello cemetery . There is also a mourning hall in Part II of the cemetery. It was built by Reinhold Persius around 1900. Thanks to a fund from the World Cultural Organization of Unesco, the mourning hall was renovated in 2010 to make it suitable for historical monuments. A new extension was also built after the one built in the 1970s on poor subsoil began to slide.
The inadequate opportunities in Potsdam to set up representative hereditary burials prompted the nobility and bourgeoisie to set up burial vaults in the surrounding villages, especially in Bornstedt. These vaults and burial chapels, as well as the burials in the church itself, were lost due to the demolition of the village church and the new buildings in 1805 and 1856. An extension to the church in 1881/82 made the eastern part of the cemetery smaller.
Large parts of northern Potsdam, as well as the palaces and gardens of Sanssouci , were built on the Bornstedt district. Since the second half of the 18th century, the Bornstedter Friedhof developed into the preferred burial place for court gardeners, court officials and dignitaries from the time of the monarchy. By 1905, five parts of the cemetery were built, which are still clearly separated from one another today. A special area is the cemetery of the court gardener family Sello . It was bought by Ludwig Hermann Sello in 1844 and was intended for the burial of family members and friends.
Tombs
Part of the Bornstedter Kirchhof is the cemetery of the family foundation Hofgärtner Hermann Sello . This family cemetery unites, as Theodor Fontane describes in his hikes through the Mark Brandenburg , “court gardeners in battalions” from the gardener families Sello and Nietner . The graves of the famous landscape gardener Peter Joseph Lenné and the architects Friedrich Ludwig Persius and Reinhold Persius as well as Ferdinand von Arnim can also be found on this private part of the Bornstedt cemetery ( hereditary burial site ) . Over 500 well-known personalities rest in the five parts of the Bornstedt cemetery.
The Bornstedter Church
The church is located directly on Ribbeckstrasse and has a free-standing, 34 meter high campanile . The colonnade in front was built in 1842/43 in the Italian architectural style based on designs by Friedrich Ludwig Persius. However, the “First Bornstedter Church” existed before 1795. In 1805 the "Second Bornstedter Church" was built. Friedrich August Stüler was commissioned with the further design and implementation in 1854/55. In 1881/82 the Bornstedter Church was given the shape it still has today after the renovations by Reinhold Persius . In the church there are extraordinary items of equipment such as a. the grave slab of Jacob Paul von Gundling .
On Eichenallee, the northern boundary of the cemetery, there is a small heroes' grove for those killed in the First World War . Hans Kölle designed the simple grove in 1935/36 on behalf of Hans Friedrichs , the then Lord Mayor of Potsdam. In the memorial complex there is a bronze sculpture to the right of the entrance, which was created in 1937 by Walter E. Lemcke .
photos
The Bornstedter Church view from the ruins mountain
Portico and bell tower of the Bornstedt Church
Bornstedter Church
literature
- Julius Haeckel: History of the Potsdam cemeteries . Communication from the Association for the History of Potsdam, 1937
- Karlheinz Deisenroth: Märkische burial place in courtly splendor. The Bornstedt cemetery in Potsdam . 2nd Edition. trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2003
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Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 31.4 " N , 13 ° 1 ′ 43.7" E