Connewitz cemetery

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The cemetery chapel from 1927

The Connewitz cemetery is the burial place of the Evangelical Lutheran Parish Leipzig - Connewitz - Lößnig . As a whole, it is a listed building .

Location and shape

The Connewitz cemetery is located in the Leipzig district of the same name on Meusdorfer Strasse at number 80. It extends as an almost rectangular area of ​​around 3.5 hectares to the southeast. The central axis is an avenue of mighty linden trees and leads to a memorial for the Connewitzers who died in the First World War . For the approximately 5000 grave sites, the cemetery is divided into 28 numbered - except for the four southern - rectangular sections, which are also followed by the network of paths. In addition to historical wall graves, there are also numerous community graves where only the names of those buried are listed.

  • Main entrance

  • cenotaph

  • Community graves

  • Inside of the chapel

  • Cemetery wall

The cemetery chapel is designed in the Art Deco style and offers space for over sixty people. On the side of the altar shows a sandstone relief with a cross and kneeling prayers. There is an electronic Ahlborn organ on the gallery . The morgue as well as the administration and a flower shop adjoin the chapel. Not far from the chapel is a wooden-clad belfry with a bronze bell.

The cemetery wall along Meusdorfer Straße is artistically designed with graffiti, while the one along Meusdorfer Straße is defaced with illegal graffiti.

history

  • Old Connewitz cemetery

  • Old chapel, until 1926

Until 1882, the old Connewitz cemetery was where the Paul Gerhardt Church, built in 1898/1899, stands today. In 1882, in preparation for the building of the church, a new cemetery was created on the path leading from Connewitz to Thonberg , today's Meusdorfer Straße. It was initially about half the size, but was given the size it is today in 1886.

In 1926/1927, today's chapel was built with the involvement of the neighboring buildings. The architect was Georg Staufert, the artistic design comes from the Leipzig sculptor Max Alfred Brumme . The chapel is the only new cemetery building in Leipzig that was built after the First World War and has been preserved to this day. A comprehensive reconstruction took place in 1991/1992.

The belfry near the chapel was built in 1954 for the 6th German Evangelical Church Congress . The graffiti design of the cemetery wall took place in 2017.

Graves

Most of the famous people of Leipzig are buried in the south cemetery that was built at the same time . Some of the Connewitzers resting in the local cemetery are known beyond the district.

  • "Schorschl" Pickelmann

  • Ingeborg Krabbe

  • Werner Buschnakowski

  • The gray sisters

  • Eugen Schulz was the host of the now defunct hotel and restaurant Friedrichshallen on Brandstrasse. His Art Deco crypt from 1925 is adorned with a bronze portrait medallion by the Leipzig sculptor Hans Zeißig.
  • The host of the Haus Connewitz restaurant, Georg Pickelmann, known as Schorschl, rests in the Pickelmann family complex .
  • The actress and cabaret artist Ingeborg Krabbe came from Connewitz and rests in the family's grave complex
  • Werner Buschnakowski lived in Marienbrunn and was organist at the Gohlis Reconciliation Church and concert harpsichordist in Leipzig for over 50 years .
  • Along the western wall, next to a central memorial cross, there are 24 graves of the Gray Sisters , who provided nursing care in St. Elisabeth Hospital in Connewitz until 1974 .

literature

  • Mammut-Verlag (ed.): Der Friedhofswegweiser. 5th edition, Leipzig n.d., pp. 78-81.

Web links

Commons : Connewitz cemetery  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of the historical conservation issues in Leipzig , ID number 09303844
  2. ↑ List of monuments
  3. ↑ Connewitz cemetery in Die in Leipzig

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 26 ″  N , 12 ° 23 ′ 11 ″  E