Cemetery (Sangerhausen)
The Sangerhausen cemetery is a burial site in the municipal sponsorship of the city of Sangerhausen . It is located west of the historic old town and borders directly on the Gonna in the south . The Friesenstadion is adjacent to the north. The cemetery covers an area of around 8.4 hectares and is divided into 15 sections with around 6,000 grave sites.
history
Today's cemetery replaced several older burial sites, including the community cemetery in front of the Göpentor, which was laid out in the middle of the 16th century, and the cemetery of St. Mary's Church, which was expanded in 1852 by an area further north near the Neuendorfer sheep farm. When the space there was no longer sufficient and the city expansion in the direction of the train station was in the way, the administration decided to build the current cemetery on the "Neue Weide". It opened on May 20, 1885. In 1887 the celebration hall and the gravedigger's house were completed. In 1893 the cemetery was expanded to the west.
The celebration hall is now a listed building. Monuments commemorate those who died in the fire in the Sangerhäuser Malzfabrik (1911) and those who died in the March riots in 1921.
Gravesites
- Moritz Knobloch (1851–1923), politician, mayor of Sangerhausen
- Ewald Gnau (1853–1943), botanist, co-founder of the Europa-Rosarium
- Reinhold Krieg (1857–1940), lawyer and local researcher, honorary citizen of the city of Sangerhausen
- Gustav Adolf Spengler (1869–1961), local history researcher and collector, namesake of the Spengler Museum
- Alban Heß (1891–1970), bookseller and opponent of National Socialism
- Wilhelm Schmied (1910–1984), painter and graphic artist
- Einar Schleef (1944–2001), director, writer, set designer, painter, photographer, graphic artist and actor
The Association for the History of Sangerhausen and the Surrounding Area sponsored the gravesites of Reinhold Krieg and Gustav Adolf Spengler in 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brochure of the city of Sangerhausen
- ↑ More care for graves of honor. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , July 25, 2017 (accessed January 14, 2018)