Mühlburg cemetery

The Mühlburg cemetery is a cemetery complex in the western Karlsruhe district of Mühlburg , which covers an area of ​​2.26 hectares.

history

The cemetery in Mühlburg was opened in 1857 and was located in the immediate vicinity of the former Seldeneck brewery . In the cemetery there is a sculpture by the sculptor Carl Egler, which is supposed to commemorate the victims of the Second World War . The grave of the ancestors of the writer Marie Luise Kaschnitz is also located in the cemetery .

Graves of known people

The graves of the following famous personalities and their families are located in the cemetery in Mühlburg:

• Seldeneck family grave , noble family from Baden
• Arthur Pfeifer (1878–1962), architect
• Lina Radke (1903–1983), track and field athlete

See also

• List of burial places of famous people

Web links

• Homepage of the database of cultural monuments Karlsruhe on the website of the city of Karlsruhe

Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 54.1 ″  N , 8 ° 21 ′ 22.1 ″  E