Brothers Cemetery

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The Brüdernfriedhof or Ulricifriedhof in the western ring area in Braunschweig is a historic cemetery that was laid out in 1769. Today it serves as a public park . There are still a small number of gravestones in the site, which is protected as a historical monument . The former cemetery of the Brothers Church of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation of St.Ulrici Brothers is bordered with a fence and is located on the north side of Broitzemer Straße.

history

The St. Ulrici cemetery was laid out on Broitzemer Straße in 1769 and was also called the Brothers Cemetery in memory of the Franciscan brothers . The Brothers Cemetery was created when the medieval churches in the old town of Braunschweig began to move their cemeteries from the city center in front of the city gates in the 18th century. In 1851 the cemetery was expanded two acres to the west. The consecration of the extended part took place on October 6, 1851. A horse chestnut avenue was laid out there and a memorial stone was erected on the occasion of the expansion. At first it stood at the end of the avenue, today it is in the middle of the avenue between a row of trees. With the inauguration of the Braunschweig Central Cemetery (today's main cemetery) on October 1, 1887, the old decentralized cemeteries were no longer needed and gradually closed. The brothers cemetery was also no longer occupied and was later de-dedicated.

On March 5, 1968, the new parish and parish house of the Martini community was opened, which was built on part of the cemetery. It was given the address Broitzemer Straße 244. In 1980, the city signed a contract of use with the Ulricigemeinde to convert the former cemetery into a public green area. Most of the gravestones have been preserved in the north-eastern part, section D of the cemetery. The Johanniterhaus, a retirement home, was built in the northern part of the former facility.

The facility was renovated from 2006 to 2007. The city of Braunschweig, the Richard Borek Foundation and the Evangelical Lutheran Church Association of Braunschweig helped finance the renovation . During the renovation, the character of the green area and the preserved parts of the cemetery should be preserved and the existing substance should be secured and repaired. The paths were renewed, new bank locations were built, the planting was added, the previously patchy lawn area was recreated and some trees were removed. A new fence was erected on the west side so that the entire complex was fenced off. A new hospice building, which opened in 2007, was built on the site of the former rectory of the Martini community. There is an elaborately designed gate at the main entrance. The inscription "Your works will follow you" was placed above the gate.

Tombs and burials

Heinrich Werner's gravestone
  • Carl Heinrich Goldhammer (1756–1770)
  • Johann Friedrich Goldhammer (1725–1802) and his sons Carl Heinrich (1756–1779) and David Christoph Peter (1753–1802) and his wife Elisabeth Jul. Müller
  • Hahne family
  • Georg Clemens Heine († 1791)
  • Carl Georg Philipp Hessenmöller (1803–1862), pastor of St. Ulrici
  • Minna Hessenmöller b. Wolff (1810-1865)
  • Henriette Roose († 1791) and Theodor Roose
  • Theo. Geo. Aug. Roose († 1803) with his wife Sophie geb. Abich
  • Heinrich Andreas Ludwig Rossmann (1800–1863), pastor of St. Ulrici
  • Theodore Rossmann b. Stümpke (1795–1878), widow of the pastor of St. Ulrici
  • Julius August Schoenhahn (1727–1809), prosector at a hospital and municipal surgeon with his wife Dorothea Elisabeth Schoenhahn born. Schmidt
  • Caroline Schmidt (1794–1866), founder of the Carl Schmidt Foundation
  • Johanne Dorothea Schmidt (1773–1834), tomb in the form of an iron cross
  • Georg Ernst Schulze (1787–1829), pastor of St. Ulrici
  • Heinrich Gottfried August Skerl (1829–1895), German Lutheran theologian, pastor of the Braunschweiger Brüdernkirche and Katharinenkirche
  • Minna Skerl Hessenmöller b. Brodkorb (1844–1876)
  • Johann Fried. de Unger († 1781)
  • Heinrich Werner (1800–1833), German composer, set Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem Heidenröslein to music . A memorial stone by the sculptor Hermann Siedentop (1864–1943) was set in his honor on May 3, 1914 .
  • a common grave for pastors of St. Ulrici and their relatives with a baroque grave slab from 1741.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ratsinfo of the City of Braunschweig (December 2005): Renovation of the former cemetery of the St. Ulrici Brothers community on Broitzemer Strasse. on ratsinfo.braunschweig.de (PDF)

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 35 ″  N , 10 ° 30 ′ 22 ″  E