Castle cemetery (Bad Godesberg)

View over the castle cemetery (2011)

The Burgfriedhof is a municipal cemetery in Bad Godesberg , a district of Bonn . It stands as a monument under monument protection . Part of the cemetery is the Bad Godesberg Jewish cemetery .

location

The castle cemetery is located on the western slope of the castle hill of Godesburg ( 120.8  m above sea  level ) and extends along the streets Am Burgfriedhof and Auf dem Godesberg .

history

The castle cemetery was laid out in 1804/05 on the site of the former outer bailey of the Godesburg below the Michaelskapelle in the vicinity of a Jewish cemetery that had existed since the early 18th century. In 1895 the community of Godesberg acquired the castle hill. The cemetery was expanded several times in terraces down the slope, the last time in 1910. In 1924, the town's new central cemetery was built in the Plittersdorf district to relieve it .

description

In the cemetery there are many richly designed graves of the upper middle class from the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, including five mausoleums, most of the Bonn cemeteries. One of the most important tombs is a grave sculpture ( Sermon on the Mount ) created by the sculptor Benno Elkan for the pastor Karl Evertsbusch from 1909. The cemetery chapel today is a 1904/05 for the Philadelphia- born doctor George Guier (1824–1903) based on plans by Government architect August Senz (1862–1912) under execution by the Bonn architect Wilhelm Weinreis (1872–1906) built a mausoleum in oriental shapes, which the city of Bad Godesberg acquired in 1952.

The cemetery also includes a war cemetery for 72 fallen soldiers from the First World War .

Buried personalities

Herbert Wehner's grave, Burgfriedhof, Bonn-Bad Godesberg

• Gerhard Siebel (1784–1831), businessman, local politician, diplomat and publicist from Elberfeld
• Carl August von Groote (1831–1897), Mayor of Godesberg - honor grave of the city of Bonn
• Carl Maria Finkelnburg (1832–1896), doctor and hygienist
• Julius Axenfeld (1834–1896), missionary and pastor in Godesberg - honor grave of the city of Bonn
• Reinhold Fellenberg (1848–1912), military musician, stick trumpeter, composer and carnivalist
• Anton Dengler (1852–1914), Mayor of Godesberg - honorary grave of the city of Bonn
• Alfred Wiedemann (1856–1936), Egyptologist
• Ännchen Schumacher (1860–1935), local landlady - honorary grave of the city of Bonn
• Theodor Wilhelm Düren (1866–1928), local building contractor
• Toni Wolter (1875–1929), landscape and industrial painter from the Düsseldorf School
• Josef Zander (1878–1951), Mayor of Bad Godesberg - honor grave of the city of Bonn
• Karl Schwarz (1886–1959), local architect
• Paul Kemp (1896–1953), actor and character comedian
• Heinrich Hopmann (1897–1968), Mayor of Bad Godesberg
• Wolfgang Finkelnburg (1905–1967), experimental physicist
• Hubertus Prince zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (1906–1984), journalist, writer and politician (FDP, DP, CDU)
• Walter Henkels (1906–1987), journalist and book author
• Herbert Wehner (1906–1990), politician (KPD, SPD) - since 2010 honorary grave of the city of Bonn
• Paul Magar (1909–2000), painter
• Siegfried Zoglmann (1913-2007), politician (FDP, CSU)
• Erich Mende (1916–1998), lawyer and politician (FDP, CDU)
• Ernst-Dieter Lueg (1930–2000), journalist
• Günter Zehm (1933–2019), German philosopher and publicist
• Ludolf Herrmann (1936–1986), journalist and editor-in-chief
• Rudolf Schieffer (1947–2018), German historian

Web links

Commons : Burgfriedhof Bad Godesberg  - Collection of images

• Burgfriedhof , www.godesberger-markt.de (partly taken from the Association for Homeland Care and Local History Bad Godesberg (ed.); Martin Ammermüller : Walk across the Burgfriedhof , Godesberger Heimatblätter 2010)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), number A 639
2. ↑ Open Monument Day, September 8, 2013. Event program North Rhine-Westphalia , German Foundation for Monument Protection, p. 10.
3. ↑ Mathias Nofze: Burgfriedhof is the most beautiful for me ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), General-Anzeiger , August 2, 2010
4. ^ ^{A b} Hans-Peter Schwanke: Mausoleum architecture on the Godesberg castle cemetery . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Local History Bad Godesberg , ISSN  0436-1024 , Association for Home Care and Local History Bad Godesberg eV, Issue 22/1984, pp. 148–157.
5. ↑ Mousoleum Guier , www.godesberger-markt.de (taken from the Association for Homeland Care and Local History Bad Godesberg (ed.); Martin Ammermüller: Walk across the castle cemetery , Godesberger Heimatblätter 2010)
6. ↑ Werner Keyl: About the mausoleum Guier in the Godesberg castle cemetery and its architects . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN  0436-1024 , Issue 31 (1993), Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg , pp. 104–116.
7. ↑ Martin Gussone, Martina Müller-Wiener: Das Mausoleum Dr. George Guier in Bad Godesberg and Orientalism . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN  0436-1024 , Issue 48 (2010), Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg , Bad Godesberg 2011, pp. 78–95.
8. ↑ Bad Godesberg war grave memorial site, Burgfriedhof , Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge
9. ^ ^{A b c d e} Association for Home Care and Local History Bad Godesberg eV (Ed.): Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Local History Bad Godesberg , ISSN  0436-1024 , Issue 22/1984, Bad Godesberg 1985, p. 171.
10. ↑ Honorary grave for Herbert Wehner . Herbert-Wehner-Bildungswerk. September 8, 2010. Archived from the original on October 27, 2010. Retrieved January 30, 2014.

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 7.4 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 54 ″  E