Scholars' Cemetery (Königsberg)
Scholars' cemetery was the popular name for a cemetery in Königsberg i. Pr. Named "Alter Neurossgärter Friedhof".
History of the cemetery
In 1646 the space of the “Todtenackers” located around the “Old Neurossgärter Church ” was no longer sufficient. Therefore, the “Old Neurossgärter Friedhof” was extended to the west near the hill on which the observatory was later built. In 1817 this area did not extend enough either, so that the city decided to create new cemeteries near the Luisenkirche and to bury only prominent figures from politics, science and art in the old Neurossgärter cemetery, which initially resulted in the name "Ehrenfriedhof" that lasted until 1945. The entire remaining area became the " Volksgarten ". In order to avoid confusion with an older “Ehrenfriedhof”, the name “Scholar Cemetery” became more and more common. In 1926, the city decided to give preference to this "cemetery with the scholarly corner" in the Volkspark.
In addition, some of the graves of famous Königsbergers, "which are located in the cemeteries that have been destroyed", were moved to the scholarly cemetery. This included the reburial of Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel and Karl Rosenkranz from the Old Steindammer Cemetery in November / December 1926.
The scholarly cemetery was the old part of the Neurossgärter Kirchhof and was 100 m northwest of the observatory hill in the area of the former fortress belt. The new burial place of the most important Königsberg professors became necessary when the so-called professorial vault at the cathedral had become too small.
Renamed the Ehrenfriedhof again in 1927 , the scholarly cemetery was destroyed at the end of the Second World War. The Kaliningrad government planned in 2013 by the Chairman of the Russian Writers' Union, Boris Bart field to erect a memorial on the former site of the scholar's cemetery. The memorial stone was unveiled on July 12, 2014 in the presence of representatives from politics and science from the city of Kaliningrad.
Graves
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784–1846), astronomer
- Robert Caspary (1818-1887), botanist
- Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel (1741–1796), statesman and social critic
- Ludwig Kersandt (1821-1892), medical officer
- Karl Lehrs (1802–1878), Graecist
- Franz Ernst Neumann (1798–1895), founder of theoretical physics, reburied
- Karl Rosenkranz (1805–1879), philosopher, Hegel student
- Friedrich Julius Richelot (1808–1875), mathematician
- Albrecht Wagner (1827–1871), surgeon, died as a general physician during the Franco-Prussian War in Dole of typhus
- Magnus von Beer (1765–1825), District Administrator of Estonia
- August Ludwig Busch (1804–1855), astronomer at the Königsberg observatory, successor to Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
- Gustav Werther (1815–1869), chemist
Image gallery
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784–1846), astronomer
Robert Caspary (1818-1887), botanist
Franz Ernst Neumann (1798–1895), physicist
Albrecht Wagner (1827–1871), surgeon
literature
- Anonymous AM: Königsberg grave monuments . Königsberg Week 1912; No. 8: “Pictures of the day” pp. 180–187. This is where the integrated images of the grave monuments above come from
- Eberhard Neumann-Redlin von Meding : The scholars at the old Neurossgärter cemetery in Königsberg . Königsberger Bürgerbrief 80 (2012), pp. 54–56.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Communications from the German Society for Research in the Eighteenth Century (Göttingen 1996)
- ^ Neumann-Redlin von Meding, E .: New memorial stone on the former scholarly cemetery. Königsberger Bürgerbrief No. 84 (2014) pp. 88–89
- ↑ The Ostpreußenblatt (1969) (PDF; 12.0 MB)
Coordinates: 54 ° 42 ′ 54.4 " N , 20 ° 29 ′ 35.5" E