Fangelsbach cemetery

Cemetery plan

The Fangelsbachfriedhof in Stuttgart-Süd is one of the most important historical cemeteries in Stuttgart .

history

The Fangelsbachfriedhof was created in 1823 outside the city limits, in the Immenhof area, a former settlement from the Middle Ages. Today it is closely bordered by Filderstraße, Cottastraße and Heusteigstraße, and back then it was located in the countryside between fields and meadows.

It was created because the Leonhardskirchhof, around the Leonhardskirche , had been closed and the military cemetery was already full.

Its name can be traced back to the Fangelsbach, which was mentioned in 1286 as "Famelspach". The name of the field and finally the name of the cemetery were derived from this brook.

The first expansion of the cemetery was necessary in 1840, in 1865/67 the cemetery was expanded again until it got its current size in 1869.

From 1906 to 1908 the Markuskirche was built by Heinrich Dolmetsch in Art Nouveau style.

Monuments

War memorial

War memorial, 1889

On December 2, 1874, the fourth anniversary of the Battle of Champigny-Villiers , a war memorial was inaugurated at the Fangelsbach cemetery "as a common grave for 124 German officers, NCOs and soldiers who found their resting place here during the wars of 1870 and 71 ".

The artists involved in the construction of the monument and their contributions are listed in the table below. "The würfelförmge monument with four corner pedestals with bronze candelabra , intervening on a pedestal a sarcophagus , was crowned with the figure of the" Fatherland "in antique garb. With both hands she held out laurel wreaths to the fallen in the graves. The names of the 124 soldiers who were buried in the Fangelsbach cemetery and the 14 soldiers who were buried in the Hoppenlauf cemetery were recorded on 10 ore tablets on the substructure of the monument. "

The memorial was badly damaged by an aerial bomb in July 1944. Three of the ten memorial plaques were completely lost. In place of the destroyed monument, the current memorial was erected in 1963 .

**Participating artists**
Surname	Contribution
Adolf Gnauth	Overall design, supervision of execution
Ernst Rau	Model of the figure of the "fatherland" (also known as Germania )
Friedrich Specht	Shield and lion head
Wilhelm Pelargus	Bronze casting
Ernst Macholdt	Stone carvings

memorial

Today's memorial stands in the same place where the destroyed war memorial stood. It is dedicated to the fallen of 1870/1871 and also to the war dead of the two world wars 1914–1918 and 1939–1945. The monument made of reddish Black Forest granite was designed by the sculptor Hubert Albert Zimmermann and inaugurated on December 4, 1963.

You enter a paved path over four steps on a slightly elevated plateau that leads to the memorial. The rectangular memorial stone is attached to a stele above a rectangular base plate. The face of the stone is covered with stylized bronze silhouettes of fallen and grieving human figures. The two side surfaces and the rear surface of the memorial stone bear inscriptions.

Left inscription: "Here rest 148 dead / Germans and French / from the war of 1870-1871".
Inscription on the back: "Erected in 1963 on the site / of the monument destroyed in the Second World War / from 1870-1871".
Right inscription: "In memory of the dead / the war 1870-1871 / and the two world wars / 1914-1918 1939-1945".

On both sides of the path there are three lying stones on the left and four on the right, on which the seven preserved bronze plaques of the war memorial are attached. One of the plaques also shows the names of the two Taube brothers, Count Erich and Axel von Taube , who both died on the same day at the Battle of Champigny-Villiers . The unfortunate event received a lot of attention at the time and aroused general sympathy.

Graves

→ Column legend and sorting

Legend

#	Number of the department in which the grave is located. The location of the departments is shown in the cemetery plan (see above).
P	Grave of a P rominenten.
K	Grave with K unstwerk or a grave that is remarkable for other reasons.
*	Year of birth.
†	Year of death.

Sorting

Sort a column: click the symbol in the column header. Grave / Artist column: Sorted by family name.
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Initial sorting: according to the family name in the grave column.

#	P	K	dig	*	†	Artist / object
12		K	Richard Collyer Andree, British Royal Colonel.	1785	1865	J. Schweizer, square sandstone stele with trophy attachment, 1866.
09	P		Carl Beisbarth , architect.	1809	1878
09	P		Carl Beisbarth , architect.	1809	1878
03		K	Heinrich Bolley, President of the High Tribunal, MP.	1770	1847
08		K	Christian Bossert, royal master craftsman.	1835	1918	NN, shell limestone stele with ivy tendrils, 1899.
08		K	Friedrich Bossert, architect.	1871	1953	NN, wrought iron, stylized, openwork relief of a plant with two inscription cartouches, 1946.
14th	P	K	Viktor Cappeller , sculptor.	1831	1904	Viktor Cappeller, 1883.
06	P		Gustav Adolf Closs , artist and heraldist.	1864	1938
05	P		Christian Adam Then , pastor.	1758	1837
12		K	Heinrich Ernst.	1931	2000	NN, stylized bronze tree with a spherical crown of leaves.
12	P		Immanuel Fichte , philosopher.	1796	1879
12	P		Eberhard Fraas , geologist and paleontologist.	1862	1915
12	P		Oscar Fraas , Director of the Royal Cabinet of Natural Products.	1824	1897
12	P	K	Christoph Friedrich Gerok , prelate.	1786	1865	NN, sandstone stele with cross.
10		K	Christian Graff, steel engraver.	1843	1889	NN, square sandstone stele with ball / pyramid point made of marble.
08		K	Adolf Gross, manufacturer.	1850	1930	NN, crenellated stele with cross.
10	P	K	Karl Grunert , court actor.	1810	1869	NN, fragment of a column with mask and laurel wreath.
06	P		Georg Hambrecht, surgeon, burial place from 1832.	1780	1823
11	P	K	August Hedinger , doctor and anthropologist.	1841	1910	NN, medallion with portrait relief.
08		K	Anton Kamenzin.	1890	1979
15th	P		Sixt Karl Kapff , dean and pastor.	1805	1879
10	P		Albert Knapp , pastor of the parish of St. Leonhard , poet and founder of the first animal welfare association in Germany.	1798	1864	NN, marble cross with lyre.
10		K	Joseph Knapp, pastor at the collegiate church.	1839	1893	NN, marble cross.
05	P		Maria Koppenhöfer , actress.	1901	1948
01	P		Anton Kreidler , industrialist.	1863	1942
12	P	K	Wilhelm Kurtz, master bell founder.	1879	1974	Heinrich Kurtz (1877–1959) or Hans Kurtz (1917–2003), bell with coat of arms relief and angels on the handles, craftsman's mark with signature HK.
?	P		Armin Lang , television producer and voice actor.	1928	1996
10		K	Paul Lauser, foreman.	1820	1870	NN, acroterion-crowned stele with a relief of a female angel figure.
03	P		Ernst Macholdt, sculptor.	1814	1879	NN, sandstone stele with artist's coat of arms (lost) under a laurel wreath.
02		K	Albertine Müller born Erhard.	1816	1838	L. Schaller.
08	P	K	Johann Georg Friedrich Müller, printer, founder of the Neue Tagblatt in 1843.	1803	1857	NN, double desk with cross (lost) and two loungers, lounger by Johann Georg Friedrich Müller as an open book (left).
08	P	K	Adolf Müller-Palm , journalist, writer and newspaper publisher.	1840	1904	NN, double desk with cross (lost) and two loungers, lounger by Adolf Müller-Palm as an open book (right).
01	P	K	Johann Jacob Nill, foreman and councilor.	1819	1877	NN, white marble obelisk with metal portrait relief and builder's coat of arms.
10		K	Friedrich Oexle.	1914	1992	Auguste Rodin , reduced bronze replica of the sculpture “The Thinker”, height about 40 cm.
		K	Carl Offterdinger , painter and illustrator.	1829	1889
05	P		Eduard Paulus the Younger , archaeologist.	1837	1907
07	P		August Friedrich von Pauly , classical philologist.	1796	1845
07	P		Christian Ludwig Pelargus , court pewter from Württemberg.	1783	1843
12	P	K	Wilhelm Pelargus , art caster.	1820	1901
10		K	Wilhelm Pfitzer, commercial gardener.	1821	1905	Boulder with inscription plaque and rose petal garland made of bronze, 1893.
10	P		Johann Baptist Pischek , opera singer.	1814	1873	NN, portrait relief.
12	P		Charlotte Reihlen , deaconess.	1805	1868
03	P		Luise Schall born Rau, fiancee of Eduard Mörike .	1806	1891
06		K	Johann Lorenz Schiedmayer , piano manufacturer.	1786	1860	NN, square sandstone block with corner pilaster, support plate with bronze lyra in a laurel wreath, 1832.
04	P		Carl von Schiller , head forester, son of the poet Friedrich Schiller .	1793	1857
04	P		Friedrich von Schiller, major, son of Carl von Schiller.	1826	1877
10	P		Adolph Gottlieb Ferdinand Schoder , politician.	1817	1852	NN, bed plate with openwork bronze relief with lettering and oak leaf wreath.
12		K	Jakob Schwarz, foreman.	1823	1887	NN, gable-crowned sandstone stele with acroteries and foreman coat of arms in a laurel wreath.
12		K	Theodor Seitz.	1861	1942	NN, boulder with inscription panels.
10	P	K	Gustav Siegle , factory owner and industrialist.	1840	1905	H. Schwabe, bronzes and relief, casting: Christoph Lenz , 1879.
10	P	K	Gustav Siegle , factory owner and industrialist.	1840	1905	H. Schwabe, bronzes and relief, casting: Christoph Lenz , 1879.
10	P	K	Gustav Siegle , factory owner and industrialist.	1840	1905	H. Schwabe, bronzes and relief, casting: Christoph Lenz , 1879.
10		K	Theodor Strauss-Rueff, businessman.	1838	1901	NN, kneeling man, looking to the sky.
12		K	Maximilian Sucro, businessman.	1858	1923	Emil Kiemlen , Mourner, Seated Angel, 1912.
08	P		Nikolaus von Thouret , builder.	1767	1845
02		K	Friedrich Ehregott Tiedemann, painter.	1865	1893	J. Sautermeister, granite boulder with metal portrait relief, 1894.
07	P		Gustav Friedrich Werner called Affenwerner, cafetier and zoo owner.	1809	1870
07	P		Eva Zippel , sculptor.	1925	2013	Jörg Failmezger , Schriftstein.

literature

Georg Himmelträger ; Hans Andreas Klaiber; Hermann Ziegler: Gravestones in the Fangelsbach cemetery, which should be placed under monument protection for historically or artistically significant reasons. Recorded: November 3, 1959 - July 12, 1963. Stuttgart 1963–1965.
Werner Koch; Christopher Koch: Stuttgart cemetery guide. A guide to the graves of well-known personalities. Tübingen 2012, pages 14-25.
Mammut-Verlag (publisher and editor): Stuttgart, Der Friedhofswegweiser. Stuttgart 2006, pages 34-36.
Mammut-Verlag (publisher and editor): Stuttgart, Der Friedhofswegweiser. Stuttgart 2011, pages 36–38 (available free of charge, including at the information desk in the town hall).
Bernd Möbs: On foot to Stuttgart's poets. Literary walks. Tübingen 2008, pages 168-173.
Stuttgart 1864 to 1889. Ceremony of the royal capital and residence city to celebrate the twenty-five year jubilee in government of His Majesty the King Karl of Württemberg, June 25, 1889 , Stuttgart 1889, pages 50–51, plate 22.
Köngen and the Fangelsbach Cemetery, Stuttgart. In: Franzträger: 100 Köngener Story (s) - Memorable things from the old Köngen: Köngener Histories, published from 1999 to 2007 in the Köngener Anzeiger. Köngen: History and Culture Association Köngen, 2007, pages 124–126.
Hermann Ziegler: Friedhöfe in Stuttgart, 5th volume: Fangelsbachfriedhof , Stuttgart 1994.