Karlsruhe main cemetery

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The chapel
The entrance as a triumphal arch
The Campo Santo with the inside of the triumphal arch
Karlsruhe Main Cemetery Small Chapel
Jewish chapel in the general cemetery
Muslim burial ground in the main cemetery
Sculpture on a burial ground
Memorial to aerial warfare victims in World War II
Sculpture in the Bürklin mausoleum created by Johannes Hoffart

The Karlsruhe main cemetery is one of the oldest German municipal park cemeteries . In 1871 the first plans began to build a new burial ground outside the city center. The cemetery was laid out in 1874 by Josef Durm in the Rintheim district, east of the actual city, after the inner-city old cemetery in the east of Karlsruhe had become too small. The main cemetery has grown from its original size of 15.3 hectares in 1873 to over 34 hectares. The graves of more than 32,000 deceased are currently in the cemetery.

terrain

Curved plane alleen instead of rigid axles were part of the new design of the park cemetery. While the representative monuments stood on the main paths, the simpler tombs were hidden behind hedges. The former crematorium , today a chapel for burials on a small scale, is elevated.

Since 2003 in a be my last garden area called natural burial offered.

There is a Muslim burial ground in the cemetery. An Orthodox and a Liberal Jewish cemetery with the graves of Otto Nachmann and his son, the former chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany , Werner Nachmann, are separated .

Jewish cemeteries

In 1873, shortly after the planning for the new main cemetery began, the Orthodox cemetery of the Israelite Religious Society in Karlsruhe was inaugurated. At that time, the remains of twenty deceased people from the former old Jewish cemetery were transferred to the new cemetery.

In 1897, next to the Orthodox cemetery, a general Jewish cemetery was inaugurated by the Jewish liberal community of Karlsruhe. Two years earlier, in 1895, a morgue and sermon hall, which is used by both parishes, was completed.

After 1945, only a few funerals took place in the old Orthodox cemetery. The general cemetery, however, continues to be used for burials. In contrast to the general Jewish cemetery, the Orthodox cemetery is not open to the public.

My last garden

A special section of this cemetery is the grave field My Last Garden . The design deliberately deviates from the usual horticulture in other cemeteries. This area is reminiscent of modern landscape parks and recreational areas. It also includes an artificial waterfall, ponds and sculptures. Certain plants and trees have also been carefully planted, such as bamboo , which gives the area a Far Eastern look .

Islamic burial ground

Since 1984 there has been a Muslim burial area on grave field 40. Special funeral rites for Muslims can be carried out in consultation with the umbrella organization for Islamic associations in Karlsruhe and the surrounding area . Special rooms are available in the cemetery for the ritual washing of the dead as well as for the funeral prayer. The individual grave areas for the deceased are laid out in such a way that the right side of the body faces towards Mecca during the burial .

building

The entrance portal, which is reached from Haid-und-Neu-Straße after passing an avenue and several outbuildings, is designed in the style of a Roman triumphal arch . Behind the portal is a courtyard based on the pattern of the Campi Santi , which is closed off by the Renaissance-style crypt hall as well as the mortuary and the burial chapel. The ensemble is considered the first example of the neo-renaissance building in Baden and was restored at the beginning of the 21st century.

In 1903 the crematorium was built according to plans by August Stürzenacker . It is clad with reddish sandstone. With its neo-Romanesque design, it is the first crematorium to look like Christian sacred buildings ; Until then, oriental architectural styles had been chosen for the type of burial, which the churches rejected. The building has been used as a small mourning hall since 2002 . A new and more modern crematorium was put into operation in 1998.

The former resting place of the Bürklin family is also located in the cemetery. Today's Bürklin mausoleum was handed over to the city of Karlsruhe in 1963, which has been using it as a columbarium since 1985 .

Info center at the main cemetery

At the entrance to the cemetery area is the information center of the Association for the Care of Cemetery and Funeral Culture Karlsruhe. The information center was opened in April 2002 and is located in the former waiting hall of the former Karlsruhe local railway that led to Hagsfeld . The building was designed by the Karlsruhe architect Friedrich Beichel and was built between 1905 and 1906 in Art Nouveau style. The association sees itself as a contact point for people who have ideas, questions and concerns about the topics of cemetery, burial and death. The association also offers cemetery tours, exhibitions and lectures.

Personalities

Over the years, a number of well-known people, some of whom were known far beyond the borders of Karlsruhe and the region, found their final resting place in the main cemetery in Karlsruhe. The most famous among them is probably the inventor of the forerunner of the bicycle, Karl Freiherr von Drais . Other famous people who were buried here included: a. the poet and author Joseph Victor von Scheffel , the painter Hans Thoma and the composer and court conductor Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda .

List of well-known personalities who found their final resting place in the Karlsruhe main cemetery:

Honor graves

The graves of honor of the two lawyers working in Karlsruhe, Ludwig Marum (1882–1934) and Reinhold Frank (1896–1945), are also located on the grounds of the main cemetery . Both men were victims of the Nazi regime in the Third Reich as opponents and were each honored with their own memorial stone.

See also

photos

Commons : Hauptfriedhof Karlsruhe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Karl Zahn: graves, tombs, places of mourning. The Karlsruhe main cemetery. Karlsruhe 2001, ISBN 3-88190-282-1
  • Gerd Otto-Rieke: Graves in Karlsruhe - people who moved us. Discovering history in cemeteries Volume 4. Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-938778-19-7

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Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 2.9 ″  N , 8 ° 26 ′ 7.5 ″  E