Cemetery IV (Gotha)

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Extract from the official Gotha city map from 1905 with cemetery IV in the upper left half of the picture

The cemetery IV was one of the old cemeteries of the city of Gotha .

history

As the last and largest of the old Gotha cemeteries , Cemetery IV was created in 1855 on the Galberg in the triangle between Sonneborner Straße and Eisenacher Straße. In 1892 it was closed "for hygienic reasons" for the construction of new graves, but existing graves (e.g. family graves) were occupied until the 1910s. In August 1951, the leveling of the cemetery began, the area of ​​which was later built on with single-family houses. A few stones (among others by Hansen, Petermann, Bohnstedt and Pertsch) were secured and later placed in the new main cemetery on a common area (officially called the exhibition area of ​​exposed tombs ) southwest of the crematorium.

Graves of important personalities

Among other things, their final resting place was found here:

  • Peter Andreas Hansen (1795–1874): Gotha's most important astronomer and director of the observatory on the Seeberg
  • August Petermann (1822–1878): famous geographer and cartographer
  • Carl Friedrich August Schäfer (1796–1880): Postmaster, founder of the Schäferstift
  • Gustav von Henning (1798–1880): Government and Oberconsistorialrath, honorary citizen of the city of Gotha
  • Gustav Eberhardt (1805–1880): secret government and building officer, builder of the former Gotha Theater, the Marstall, the Catholic Church and Reinhardsbrunn Castle
  • Carl Stollberg (1819–1880): founder of the Gothaischer Tageblatt
  • Karl Friedrich Lucian Samwer (1819–1882): Privy councilor in the ducal ministry and representative of the minister Camillo von Seebach
  • Ludwig Bohnstedt (1822–1885): famous Gotha architect
  • Gotthilf Albert Sterzing (1822–1889): District court director, first chairman of the German Shooting Federation
  • Hermann Berghaus (1828–1890): important cartographer
  • Camillo Richard Frhr. von Seebach (1808–1894): Gotha Minister of State, honorary citizen of the city of Gotha
  • Wilhelm Pertsch (1832–1899): language scholar, director of the Friedenstein collections
  • Gottlob Schneider (1835–1912): Director of the Gothaer Life Insurance Bank, author of the Gothaer Memorial Book
  • Karl Heinrich Hünersdorf (1817–1897), Lord Mayor of Gotha

Others

The Gotha engineer Karl Heinrich Stier, who died on December 10, 1877, was only temporarily buried in the cemetery. Stier, who designed the technical system of the crematorium for the new main cemetery , died almost a year before the system was completed. Therefore, in his will, he had ordered to be buried in a hermetically sealed metal coffin at Cemetery IV in order to be cremated as the first body after the crematorium was put into operation. One year after his death, on December 10, 1878, Stier was the first German in modern times to be cremated in the main cemetery. He was the only person cremated in the year the crematorium was opened and is one of the few people who received both an earth and a cremation. His urn has been in the columbarium of the main cemetery ever since .

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Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 6.2 "  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 28.3"  E