Cimitero Acattolico (Capri)
The Cimitero Acattolico is a non- Roman Catholic cemetery on Capri with 217 graves of people from 21 nations (as of 1994) and various non-Catholic denominations ( Anglicans , Lutherans , Orthodox , Jews ), but also free thinkers . These are either people who have lived permanently on Capri or travelers who died there. Recently, Catholic Italians have also been buried, who consciously wanted this “interdenominational” and “international” place as their final resting place. The majority of the burials concerned British and Germans, followed by Americans and Russians.
Topographically, the cemetery consists of two grave fields measuring around 700 and 600 m², which are connected by a small staircase. The non-Catholic cemetery is adjacent to the Catholic cemetery Capris and has two crossings to it.
history
The cemetery was suggested in 1875 by the Englishman George Hayward and opened in 1878 after many of the numerous foreigners were not allowed to be buried in the Catholic cemetery. As early as 1936, it was necessary to add a second, slightly lower field (towards the Marina Grande). The cemetery was initially under the self-administration of the foreign colony living on Capri (in which mainly British and Germans took part); after the Second World War it came into the possession of the Centro Caprense “I. Cerio ” , which bequeathed him to the municipality in 1991, which has been responsible for him ever since.
List of graves
In the table, the upper field is designated as 1, the lower field as 2, so that “2-40” stands for grave 40 on the lower field. In the upper area there are also graves outside the numbered area, which are referred to here as "East" (near the entrance) and "West" (behind the numbered fields).
dig | Surname | Year of birth | Year of death | Age | Remarks |
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1-west | Lucio Amelio | 1931 | 1994 | 63 | Art dealer and gallery owner |
1-west | Günter Ammon | 1918 | 1995 | 76 | psychoanalyst |
1-east | Gracie Fields | 1898 | 1979 | 81 | singer and actress |
1-west | Helmut Weiss | 1907 | 1969 | 61 | Actor and director |
1-88 | Paul Geleff | 1842 | 1928 | 86 | Danish social democrat |
2-25 | Harold Edward Trower | 1856 | 1934 | 78 | Author: The book of Capri (1906) |
2-28 | Charles Caryl Coleman | 1840 | 1928 | 88 | painter |
2-40 | Jacques d'Adelswärd-heels | 1880 | 1923 | 43 | Eccentric, died from cocaine abuse |
2-55 | Pontus Leander | 1872 | 1935 | 62 | Orientalist |
2-62 | Norman Douglas | 1868 | 1952 | 83 | writer |
2-77 | Jakob Johann von Uexküll | 1864 | 1944 | 79 | Zoologist and philosopher |
literature
- Stefanie Sonnentag: walks through Capri and Naples of writers and artists . Arche Verlag 2003, pp. 77-78, ISBN 978-3-7160-2316-7
- Dieter Richter : Il giardino della memoria. Il Cimitero acattolico di Capri. Capri (La Conchiglia) 1996; updated new edition 2015, ISBN 978-88-6091-066-0 (Italian)
- Dieter Richter : The island of Capri. A portrait. Wagenbach, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-8031-2795-2 , p. 87-112 .
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Dieter Richter: Il Giardino della memoria edition 2015, p. 69
- ↑ D. Richter: Il giardino della memoria , Capri 1996, p. 81 ff.
- ^ D. Richter: Il giardino della memoria , p. 88
- ↑ D. Richter, pp. 68 ff.
Coordinates: 40 ° 33 ′ 5.4 ″ N , 14 ° 14 ′ 7.4 ″ E