Cathedral and St. Magnifriedhof

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The Magnifriedhof
Lessing's tomb
Eschenburg's tomb
Ottmer's tomb

The Magnifriedhof in Braunschweig is an important historical cemetery. It consists of two cemeteries, the cathedral and St. Magni cemetery, which are located on the same site. The cemeteries are no longer named differently, but are called Magnifriedhof by the Braunschweig residents.

history

The Magnifriedhof on Gerstäckerstraße served three communities in Braunschweig: Magni, St. Leonhard and the cathedral parish with the cemetery of the Gray Court, where the court officials and their families were buried. In 1755 the church yards began to be relocated to the city gates. The cathedral cemetery and St. Magnifriedhof were created in the 18th century as burial places for the residents of the Gray Court, the St. Blaise monastery and the St. Magni parish. It is noteworthy that Lessing's grave site was considered lost in Braunschweig at the beginning of the 19th century. This grave was found again in 1833 by the historian Carl Schiller , the first director of the Braunschweig Municipal Museum . With the opening of theIn Braunschweig's main cemetery , the St. Magni cemetery was closed for burials in 1887. At the end of the 1950s, the graves of the Campe, Vieweg and Westermann publishers were transferred to the Magnifriedhof. Today (2008)
burials are only possible in the cathedral cemetery. The cemetery is owned by the St. Blasius Cathedral Church Foundation and the St. Magni Parish.
The chapel, which is located on the northeastern edge of the cathedral cemetery, serves as a Greek Orthodox church.

Tombs

On the Magnifriedhof there are tombs of different styles, such as classicism and late romanticism .
The natural stones used are varied. The Lessing tomb, for example, consists of Saubsdorf marble from the former German province of Silesia . A number of gravestones, such as that of Eschenburg, were cut from local sandstone from Lutter am Barenberge , which can still be found very often on buildings in Braunschweig. The light yellow local Elm limestone , on the other hand, is relatively rare in the Magni cemetery. From granite for example, the tomb of Selenka; Voigtländer's grave slab is made of marble . There are also two unusual tombs: one in the form of a very pointed pyramid (near Lessing's grave) and one with an iron cube on a natural stone.

Important citizens of the history of Germany and Braunschweig as well as other Braunschweig citizens rest in both cemeteries.

Graves in the Magnifriedhof

  • Gerstacker's tomb

  • Howaldt's epitaph

  • Krahe's tomb

  • Voigtlander's tomb

Graves in the cathedral cemetery

The cathedral cemetery
Chapel in the cathedral cemetery. In front of that grave and bust of Wilhelm Erdmann Florian von Thielaus .

literature

  • Günter Jahn: Where Lessing is buried ... Lessing Academy, Wolfenbüttel 2005, ISBN 3-9809685-3-7 .
  • Karl-Heinz Löffelsend, Günter Jahn: The Magnifriedhof - Where Lessing is buried. Parish of St. Magni, Braunschweig 2019.
  • Karl Traupe: personalities who will not be forgotten . In: Braunschweig Calendar 1989 . Meyer, Braunschweig 1988, ISSN  0343-0316 .
  • Karl Traupe: A cemetery commemorates the departure in 1848 . Self-published, Braunschweig 1988.

Web links

Commons : Dom- und Magnifriedhof  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 '27.9 "  N , 10 ° 32' 15.1"  E