Grave cross of Johann Carl Gottlieb Seifert

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The grave cross for Johann Carl Gottlieb Seifert in Elsterwerda (2018).
The grave cross for Johann Carl Gottlieb Seifert in Elsterwerda (2017).
The Katharinenkirche in Elsterwerda (2012). Seifert's grave cross can be seen immediately behind the cemetery wall.

The cross on the grave of Johann Carl Gottlieb Seifert is under monument protection posed grave cross , located in the old churchyard of St. Catherine's Church in the town of Elsterwerda in southern Brandenburg Elbe-Elster is located. Here it is to be found south of the church in the immediate vicinity of the cemetery wall and one of the few preserved tombs of the cemetery, which has not been used since the 19th century.

Description and history

Johann Carl Gottlieb Seifert (April 30, 1769; † April 4, 1837) was court gardener at the castle in Elsterwerda from 1806 , where he replaced Johann Matthäus Terscheck (1745–1809), who was considered a specialist in fruit and vegetable gardening . When Seifert died in 1837, he had held the position of court gardener in Elsterwerda for 31 years. Seifert obviously succeeded in growing pineapple plants in the gardener's house of the castle , so that a representation of them can also be found at the foot of his tomb.

The cast iron grave cross is dated to around 1837/38. It is recorded in the local monument register under registration number 09136047. The 1.57 meter high and 1.05 meter wide cross was probably made in the Lauchhammer art and bell foundry .

The work of art was renovated in 2009 in the Lauchhammer art foundry and re-inaugurated on the Open Monument Day of the same year.

Inscription on the grave cross (front)
MR
JOHN Carl Gottlieb SEIFERT
31 YEAR TREU DESERVED Hofgärtner
TO ELSTERWERDA;
GEB. APRIL 30, 1769, GEST. APRIL 4, 1837.

Inscription on the grave cross (back)
ABOUT THE STARS LIVING RETRIBUTION

Web links

Commons : Grave Cross of Johann Carl Gottlieb Seifert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b Database of the Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on October 3, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bldam-brandenburg.de
  2. ↑ Mustafa Haikal : The secret of the camellia , Ed .: Schlösser und Gärten Dresden, Sandstein Verlag, Dresden, 2008, ISBN 978-3-940319-26-5
  3. ↑ a b c Veit Rösler: "The tropical pineapple in the church garden" in Lausitzer Rundschau , July 4, 2013
  4. ^ Klaus Schmidt: The gardener's house in Elsterwerda . In: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Heimatkunde eV Bad Liebenwerda (Ed.): Local calendar for the old district of Bad Liebenwerda 2012/2013 , the Mückenberger Ländchen, outskirts on Schraden and Uebigau-Falkenberg . No. 60 . Gräser Verlag Großenhain, Bad Liebenwerda 2012, p. 176-187 .
  5. ↑ Ines Klut: "Devotion and Guided Tours" in Lausitzer Rundschau , September 12, 2009

Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '23.7 "  N , 13 ° 31' 27.3"  E