Garrison / Catherine cemetery

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Grave of Heinrich Caspari

The Katharinenfriedhof and the Garrisonfriedhof (also Garrisonfriedhof ) in the northern ring area in Braunschweig are two adjacent historical cemeteries that were laid out at the beginning of the 18th century. Today the remaining parts serve as a public green area , which is why the name Mensapark became common. The area is 0.67 hectares. The complex, which is protected as an architectural monument, still has a small number of gravestones and is the final resting place of well-known personalities. The former cemetery of the Evangelical Lutheran Katharinengemeinde and the garrison cemetery are surrounded by a fence and are located on Pockelsstrasse between Rebenring and Katharinenstrasse, surrounded by buildings from the Technical University. Originally there were three cemeteries here, the north-eastern one belonged to the Andreas community and was taken over by the Katharinenfriedhof in 1862. At the same time, the Katharinengemeinde handed over its cemetery on Hamburger Strasse to the Andreasfriedhof.

history

The members of the Katharinenkirche, the parish church of the Hagens , were originally buried directly at the Katharinenkirche. In place of this cemetery, the square "An der Katharinenkirche" was created. When the medieval churches of Braunschweig began to move their cemeteries from the city center in front of the city gates in the 17th and 18th centuries, the Katharinenkirche also laid cemeteries in front of the gates of the Hagens. Initially for the poor and non-citizens. The St. Jodoci Foundation's cemetery was located at the Wendentor, and another on the Lindenberg west of the Giersberg. When Braunschweig's fortifications were expanded and widened from 1692 to 1741 , these cemeteries had to give way. A new cemetery for the poor and non-citizens was then laid out on what is now Katharinenstrasse and used for the first time in 1706. This was ultimately used for all burials of the Katharinengemeinde.

In 1721, a cemetery was laid out for St. Andrew's Church next to the Katharinenfriedhof. In 1753 the garrison cemetery was laid out next to them. Before that there was a garrison cemetery on Wolfenbütteler Strasse. However, this was already built in the 19th century. Since the cemetery on Katharinenstrasse was no longer sufficient, the Katharinenkirche established a second cemetery on Hamburger Strasse in 1802 .

On January 30, 1868, an exchange of the cemeteries was approved by the Ministry. The cemetery of the Katharinenkirche on Hamburger Straße became part of the Andreasfriedhof, the cemetery of the Andreaskirche on Rebenring was assigned to the Katharinenfriedhof. As a result, both the Katharinengemeinde and the Andreasgemeinde each created contiguous cemeteries.

With the inauguration of the Braunschweig Central Cemetery (today's main cemetery) on October 1, 1887, the old decentralized cemeteries were no longer needed and gradually closed. There were also fewer and fewer burials in the Katharinenfriedhof and the complex was de-dedicated. After the right to rest in the Katharinenfriedhof expired in the 20th century, many graves were leveled. In October 1937, the grave of the poet Wolfgang Robert Griepenkerl was saved from leveling. The garrison cemetery was used until the middle of the 20th century. 107 war graves in the garrison cemetery have a permanent right of rest under the Graves Act.

After the Second World War, the cafeteria for the Technical University of Braunschweig was built in the western part of the Katharinenfriedhof . The remaining parts of the Katharinenfriedhof and the garrison cemetery were converted into a park. This open facility, which was only partially fenced in, was criss-crossed with several paths and was only recognizable as a former cemetery through the individual gravestones.

A memorial to the deceased French prisoners of the war of 1870–1871, which had previously been erected on the site, was moved to the main cemetery and re-inaugurated on October 22, 1980 as a memorial for Franco-German understanding. There it stands in the middle of the soldiers' graves from the First World War.

In 2011 the garrison / Katharinenfriedhof was renovated. The city of Braunschweig, the Richard Borek Foundation and the State of Lower Saxony and the Technical University contributed to the financing of the renovation . During the renovation, the original character of the facility should be restored as far as possible and it should be designed into an attractive green area. The paths were reduced and renewed, new benches were set up and the iron fence was completed. Maintenance measures were carried out on the trees and new bushes were planted. The grave fields were highlighted and damaged gravestones were secured or replaced.

Tombs and burials

  • EL Brautlecht born Brendecke († 1853)
  • Heinrich Caspari (1805–1880), German politician, lawyer, Lord Mayor of Braunschweig from 1848 to 1879
  • Johann Heinrich Degener († 1824)
  • Christoph Friedrich Fickel († 1728), bookseller, buried on November 7, 1728
  • Carl Friedrich Franquet (1783–1851), manufacturer, and Sophie Franquet († 1855)
  • Wolfgang Robert Griepenkerl (1810–1868), German poet
  • GA Horn († 1793)
  • Ernestine Jeck b. Cappe (1791-1820)
  • Oetzmann family
  • Graf von Schlitz († 1853), probably Moritz Graf von Schlitz (1779-1853)
  • Eustachius von Wulfen
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae (1726–1777), German writer, translator, editor and composer

Rest in the garrison cemetery:

  • Captain of Jordan († 1785)

literature

Web links

Commons : Katharinenfriedhof / Garrisonfriedhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 29.7 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 39.9 ″  E