Great Cemetery (Wroclaw)
The Great Cemetery (also Elisabethfriedhof ) was a Protestant cemetery in Wroclaw where many important Silesian personalities were buried and which was destroyed in the 1950s and is now completely liquidated.
history
The Great Cemetery was established in the Nikolai-Vorstadt in Breslau in 1777 and was located between Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse (ul.Legnicka), Berliner Strasse (ul.Braniborska), Dessauer Strasse (ul.Dobra) and Mariannenstrasse (ul . Trzemeska). Important personalities were buried here and the tombs often had a representative character and cultural and historical value.
The cemetery with the tombstones and the chapel was completely removed in 1957, today the area is no longer recognizable. The site was declared building land and built with apartment blocks and shops.
Known buried
In addition to several mayors of the 19th century, a. a. to bury:
- Traugott Wilhelm Gustav Benedict (1785–1862) German ophthalmologist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Berner (1780–1827), German musician and composer
- Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni (1756–1827), German physicist and astronomer
- Louis Eichborn (1812–1882), banker and entrepreneur
- August Hahn (1792–1863), German theologian
- Heinrich von Korn (1829–1907), banker, publisher and patron of the city
- Carl Gotthard Langhans (1732–1808), German architect and builder
- Gottfried Linke (1792–1867), German railway manufacturer
- Ernst Resch (1807–1864), German painter
literature
- Marek Burak, Halina Okólska: Cmentarze dawnego Wrocławia . Via Nova, 2007. (German: Cemeteries of old Wroclaw . 2008, ISBN 978-3-89960-312-5 )
- Walter Effenberger, Johannes Erbe: Planting and maintaining the cemeteries. 5. Leaflet of the Silesian Federation for Homeland Security. Wroclaw 1926.
- W. Czajka: Cmentarz Wielki we Wrocławiu - miejsce pochówku EFF Chladniego . Mat. V Konf. Meteorytowej, Wrocław 2008.
- Wrocław z wyboru - o Cmentarzu Wielkim.
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 43 ″ N , 17 ° 0 ′ 48 ″ E