Main cemetery (Eisenach)
The main cemetery , also known as the central cemetery, is the municipal cemetery in the core city of Eisenach in Thuringia . The cemetery with an area of 118,119 m² is located in the north of the city on the southern slope of the Wartenberg . The cemetery chapel and large parts of the historical graves are under monument protection .
investment
The cemetery was laid out axially symmetrically as a forest cemetery. The paths were laid out geometrically according to rational principles.
Part of the cemetery is used as a Jewish cemetery. Five graves commemorate victims of war and tyranny, including 321 victims of the air raids on Eisenach .
history
As a replacement for the old cemetery , which was laid out in the south of Eisenach's old town in the 16th century and whose capacity was exhausted as the city grew in the 19th century, the new Eisenach main cemetery was inaugurated on June 19, 1868.
Otto Sckell redesigned it in 1896 according to horticultural and artistic aspects. The historical tombs and the chapel with the hereditary burial of the Eichel-Streiber family were placed under monument protection in 1993 .
Jewish Cemetery
With the opening of the new cemetery in 1867, the city's Jewish community was allowed to create a Jewish cemetery section on the site of the new city cemetery. The first burial was on March 31, 1868; by 1916 five rows of graves were built. The Jewish community had been trying to establish a Jewish cemetery in the city since 1854 and buried its deceased in the Jewish cemetery in nearby Herleshausen until 1867 .
During the First World War, a new Jewish part of the cemetery was laid out. This was documented from 1916 to 1940 and again from 1945, it comprises ten rows of graves with over eighty gravestones and monuments.
Personalities
Honorary graves have been dedicated to well-known personalities who worked in Eisenach, including:
- Arthur Bock , sculptor
- Hanns Bock , painter
- Gerhard Hasse , doctor and local politician
- Fritz Janson , Eisenach local politician and mayor
- Philipp Kühner , publisher
- Günther Laufer , blacksmith and university professor
- Moritz Mitzenheim , Thuringian regional bishop
- Fritz Reuter , poet
- Wilhelm Rinkens , composer
- Paul Friedrich Schröder , journalist and writer
- The von Eichel-Streiber family, entrepreneurial family and patrons of the city
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Jewish cemetery Eisenach near Alemannia Judaica , accessed on June 23, 2015
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 5.6 ″ N , 10 ° 19 ′ 0.1 ″ E