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
See also
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
- 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.
Coordinates: 46 ° 56 ′ 58 " N , 7 ° 25 ′ 13" E ; CH1903: five hundred and ninety-eight thousand six hundred and three / 199818