Cemetery at the Heidenmauer
The Friedhof an der Heidenmauer (also Friedhof am Römertor ) was a cemetery of the city of Wiesbaden from 1573 until its closure in 1832 .
location
The cemetery at the Heidenmauer was south of the Roman Heidenmauer , east of Coulinstrasse and stretched west to the Schulberg. The western cemetery wall was also the city wall. The access from Langgasse was still called Kirchhofgasse until 1902 (today Am Römertor ). From there, to reach the cemetery, there was a breakthrough through the pagan wall ( pagan gate ).
history
After the dead of the city of Wiesbaden were buried in the graveyard of the Mauritius church and in the church itself until the 16th century , it was decided to build a new cemetery on the north-western outskirts of the city south of the heath wall due to the increasing population and also for hygienic reasons. The first burial took place in 1573. Initially, only the poor were buried here, but rich Wiesbaden citizens could still be buried in or at the Mauritius Church for a fee. However, Prince Georg August von Nassau had the churchyard closed in 1690 and the cemetery at the Heidenmauer became the main burial place of the Wiesbaden residents. Also in 1690 a poor and hospital cemetery was built at the Hospital am Kochbrunnen . The rapidly growing population made it necessary to expand the Heidenmauerfriedhof in 1753, 1820 and 1821 up the Schulberg, which also involved relocating the city wall. Nevertheless, due to the lack of space, the cemetery had to be finally closed on September 6, 1832. Since then, the dead have been buried exclusively in the newly created Totenhof on Platter Chaussee . In 1886 the area was converted into a park that was opened to the general public. For the construction of Coulinstrasse at the beginning of 1901, some of the graves had to give way; they were reburied in the cemetery on Platter Chaussee. After the Second World War, the area between Coulinstraße and Schulberg was converted into a green area with a playground, the gravestones were removed, except for the pillar grave of Ferdinand Freiherr von Wintzingerode , or are lost. Few evidence of the old cemetery is kept in the Wiesbaden Museum today .
Personalities
- Baron Carl Friedrich August Philipp von Dalwigk-Lichtenfels (1761–1823), German lawyer and President of the Higher Appeal Court
- Wilhelm von Wolzüge (1762–1809), diplomat. Childhood friend and brother-in-law of Friedrich von Schiller
- Ferdinand Freiherr von Wintzingerode (1770–1818), German nobleman and officer
- Christian Zais (1770–1820), German architect, building inspector and Wiesbaden city planner. The grave was later transferred to the Platter Strasse cemetery.
- Karoline Luise Friederike von Wied-Runkel , b. Princess of Nassau-Weilburg (1770–1828)
- Friedrich August Lehr (1771–1831), privy councilor and personal physician to Duke Wilhelm I of Nassau .
- Ludwig Schellenberg (1772–1834), bookseller, printer and publisher
- Justus von Gruner (1777–1820), Prussian Privy Councilor of State
literature
- Josef Quetsch: Wiesbaden. City and landscape in the past and present , Nero-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1957
- Hans-Georg Buschmann: The north cemetery of Wiesbaden and its predecessors. History, funeral customs and rites, tombs . Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1991. ISBN 3-631-42297-0
- Albert Herrmann: Graves of famous people and people who became known in public life in the Wiesbaden cemeteries , Verlag Schellenberg, Wiesbaden 1928
Web links
- The diplomat Wilhelm von Wolhaben was buried 200 years ago on the Schulberg - sarcophagus lost ( memento from March 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) www.wiesbaden.de
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '3.5 " N , 8 ° 14' 17.4" E