Noerdlingen cemetery

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Evangelical cemetery
Family grave of the important Frickhinger family from Nördlingen
Imposing avenues of lime trees line the paths in and to the cemetery
St. Emmeran's cemetery church

The Nördlinger Friedhof is located on the Nördlinger Emmeramsberg (formerly also called Totenberg ) and includes the cemetery of the Evangelical Congregation.

Evangelical cemetery

history

The cemetery was created in the early Middle Ages as the churchyard of the parish church of St. Emmeram. During the siege of Nördlingen by Duke Georg the Rich of Bavaria-Landshut in 1485, the cemetery hill was used for military purposes and fortified. In 1550 the city council had the church yards of St. Emmeram and the nearby churches of St. Johannis and St. Leonhard expanded.

St. Emmeram cemetery church

The first documented mention of Nördlingen in 898 speaks of two churches, which were probably the predecessor churches of St. George and today's cemetery church, which was consecrated to St. Emmeram . The parish church of St. Emmeram was largely destroyed in a storm on June 26, 1517. Reconstruction began just two months later.

The imperial councilor Sixt Oelhafen from Nördlingen donated a winged altar for St. Emmeram around 1518. During the siege of Nördlingen during the Thirty Years War , the strategically located St. Emmeram Church was set on fire by the Nördlingen people themselves.

It was not until 1874 to 1875 that the cemetery church was rebuilt in neo-Gothic style by Georg Eberlein and Max Gaab.

Prominent graves

The graves of some prominent citizens of Nördlingen can be found in the cemetery:

  • Karl Gottlob Beck (1733–1802), printer and founder of a publishing dynasty
  • Carl Heinrich Beck (1767–1834), publisher, after whom the CH Beck publishing house is named today
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Doppelmayr (1766–1846), politician and draftsman
  • Johann Michael Voltz (1784–1858), painter and caricaturist, father of Friedrich Voltz
  • Gottfried Ritter von Böhm (1845–1926), Bavarian ambassador to Switzerland and writer
  • Friedrich Völklein (1880–1960), poet
  • Karl Schlierf (1902–1990), painter
  • Family grave of the Frickhingers

literature

  • Bernhard Hampp: Stone traces of great Nördlingers . In: Rieser Nachrichten No. 162, July 17, 2003, p. 27.
  • Dietmar-Henning Voges: The imperial city of Nördlingen. 12 chapters from their history. Munich: Beck, 1988, ISBN 3-406-32863-6

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Zwölfer:  Frickhinger. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 435 ( digitized version ).

Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 47.2 "  N , 10 ° 28 ′ 52.2"  E