Bremgarten cemetery

Paths on the Bremgarten cemetery

Crematorium on the area of the Bremgarten cemetery

The Bremgartenfriedhof is a cemetery at Murtenstrasse 51 in Bern , Switzerland and with an area of 15 hectares, it is the second largest cemetery in the city after the Schosshaldenfriedhof .

history

The Bremgarten cemetery was officially opened near the Inselspital on December 29, 1864 as a replacement for the Monbijou cemetery, and the first burial took place on January 1, 1865. At that time the cemetery was far from the city, in an open field. The first morgue was built in 1885 and the crematorium in 1908. In 1931 an urn hall was added, which was later expanded. In 1954 today's entrance area, a new abdication hall and the administration building were built. An Islamic burial ground has existed since November 1999 . The cemetery is now also a park and is maintained by Stadtgrün Bern .

Special features of the cemetery are the soldiers' graves for Belgian, French and Polish internees and the anatomy grave of the Institute for Anatomy of the University of Bern . With the expiry of numerous concessions for family graves and the increased number of cremations with burials without a tombstone, the cemetery is increasingly turning into a park.

Celebrities buried

Michail Alexandrowitsch Bakunin (1814–1876), revolutionary
Walther von Bonstetten (1867–1949), co-founder of the Swiss scout movement
Clemens August Busch (1834–1895), German diplomat
Édouard Carlin (1817–1870), politician and federal judge
Eduard Freimüller (1898–1966), Mayor of Bern
Charles Albert Gobat (1843–1914), Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Robert Grimm (1881–1958), politician
Hugh Caulfield Hamilton (1905-1934), racing car driver
Eduard Herzog (1841–1924), first Christian Catholic bishop in Switzerland
Carl Hilty (1833–1909), Swiss constitutional lawyer
Eugen Huber (1849–1923), creator of the Swiss Civil Code
Hermann Jent (1850–1915), publisher
Anny Klawa-Morf (1894–1993), Swiss socialist women's rights activist
Emil Theodor Kocher (1841–1917), surgeon and Nobel Prize winner
Martin Lauterburg (1891–1960), graphic artist, draftsman, painter
Carlo E. Lischetti (1946–2005), Swiss painter, sculptor and action artist
Leon Lichtenstein (1878–1933), German-Polish mathematician
Carl Lutz (1895–1975), Consul General
Mani Matter (1936–1972), songwriter
Eduard Müller (1848–1919), Federal Councilor
Otto Nebel (1892–1973), German painter, poet and actor
Rosa Neuenschwander (1883–1962), pioneer in the field of career counseling and vocational training in Switzerland
Josepha Kraigher-Porges (1857–1937), writer, pacifist, suffragette and philanthropist.
Hermann Rupf (1880–1962), art collector
Klaus Schädelin (1918–1987), pastor, councilor and writer
Edmund Schulthess (1868–1944), Federal Councilor and lawyer
Anatolij Steiger (1907–1944), Russian writer
Otto Steiger (1890–1958), Mayor of Bern
Reynold Tschäppät (1917–1979), Mayor of Bern
Karl Tellenbach (1877–1931), city original
Friedrich Traugott Wahlen (1899–1985), Federal Councilor, Professor of Agriculture ( Plan Wahlen )
Georg Wander (1841–1897), entrepreneur ( Wander AG )

Abolished graves

Adolf Deucher (1831–1912), Federal Councilor
Élie Ducommun (1833–1906), Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Philipp Etter (1891–1977), Federal Councilor
Johann Rudolf Schneider (1804–1880), doctor and political initiator of the Jura waters correction
Karl Schenk (1823–1895), Federal Councilor
Jakob Stämpfli (1820–1879), Federal Councilor
Agathe Zeis (1840–1887), founder of Lehrmeierei Heinrichsthal , developed the German Camembert

literature

Jakob Anton Frick: The Bremgarten Cemetery 1865–1965: A historical review of the funeral system in the city of Bern. Cemetery administration, Bern 1965.
Christoph Schärer: The Bremgarten Cemetery - A Walk with Stories , published by Stadtgrün Bern, 2015.

Web links

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

The Bremgarten cemetery in the middle, history on the bern.ch website
Bremgartenfriedhof, practical information on the bern.ch website

Individual evidence

^ Bremgarten cemetery. ( Memento from June 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Berchtold Weber: Historisch-topographisches Lexikon der Stadt Bern. 1976, accessed January 16, 2016.

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[1] Bremgarten cemetery. ( Memento from June 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Berchtold Weber: Historisch-topographisches Lexikon der Stadt Bern. 1976, accessed January 16, 2016.