Karlsruhe main cemetery
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:
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- Engelbert Arnold (1856–1911), engineer
- Klaus Arnold (1928–2009), painter and university professor
- Hermann Baisch (1846–1894), painter
- Hermann Baumeister (1867–1944), painter
- Reinhard Baumeister (1833–1917), engineer
- Traugott Bender (1927–1979), politician
- Hermann Billing (1867–1946), architect
- Adolf Boettge (1848–1913), music director and conductor of the 1st Baden Leib Grenadier Regiment No. 109
- Karl Braun (1902–1937), motorcycle racing driver
- Hans Bunte (1848–1925), chemist
- Karl Delisle (1827–1909), lawyer and politician
- Eduard Devrient (1801–1877), actor, singer and theater director
- Ludwig Dill (1848–1940), painter
- Karl Drais (1785-1851), the inventor of the impeller (draisine)
- Arthur Drews (1865–1935), philosopher and writer
- Josef Durm (1837–1919), architect, construction clerk and university professor
- Leopold Durm (1878–1918), painter, doctor and son of Josef Durm
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E-J
- Carl Egler (1896–1982), sculptor
- Ludwig Egler (1894–1965), composer and writer
- Willi Egler (1887–1953), painter
- Friedrich Engesser (1848–1931), engineer
- Carl Engler (1842–1925), chemist
- Wilhelm Engler (1880–1958), lawyer
- Rudolf Fettweis (1882–1956), board member of Badenwerk AG
- Kunigunde Fischer (1882–1967), politician
- Hermann Föry (1879–1930), sculptor
- Robert Gerwig (1820–1885), railway engineer
- Franz Grashof (1826–1893), mechanical engineer and university professor
- Franz Gurk (1898–1984), lawyer and politician
- Josef Heinrich (1879–1955), politician and Lord Mayor of Karlsruhe in 1945
- Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling (1740–1817), ophthalmologist, economist and writer
- Wilhelm Hempfing (1886–1948), painter
- Julius Jolly (1823–1891), Baden politician, minister of state and head of government
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- Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda (1801–1866), composer
- Herbert Kitzel (1928–1978), artist
- Wilhelm Klose (1830–1914), painter and patron
- Günther Klotz (1911–1972) Mayor of Karlsruhe from 1952 to 1970
- Heinrich Köhler (1878–1949), politician
- Vinzenz Lachner (1811–1893), composer and conductor
- Hanne Landgraf (1914–2005), politician
- Heinrich Lang (1824–1893), architect
- Wilhelm Florentin Lauter (1821–1892), Lord Mayor of Karlsruhe from 1870 to 1892
- Otto Lehmann (1855–1922), physicist
- Carl Friedrich Lessing (1808–1880), painter and director of the Grand Ducal Picture Gallery in Karlsruhe
- Wilhelm Lorenz (1842–1926), manufacturer and designer
- Wilhelm Lübke (1826–1893), art historian
- Jakob Malsch (1809–1896), Lord Mayor of Karlsruhe from 1848 to 1870
- Karl Mathy (1807–1868), journalist and politician
- Heinrich Meidinger (1831–1905), physicist
- Willi Müller-Hufschmid (1890–1966), painter
- Theodor Nöldeke (1836–1930), orientalist
- Wilhelm Nokk (1832–1903), lawyer and politician
- Friedrich Ostendorf (1871–1915) architect, architectural theorist and university professor
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R – T
- Ferdinand Redtenbacher (1809–1863), engineer and scientist
- Theodor Rehbock (1864–1950), engineer
- Adam Remmele (1877–1951), politician
- Toni Rothmund (1877–1956), poet and journalist
- Carl Wilhelm Ernst Schäfer (1844–1908), architect and university professor
- Josef Schmitt (1874–1939), President of Baden
- Karl Schnetzler (1846–1906), Lord Mayor of Karlsruhe from 1892 to 1906
- Gustav Schönleber (1851–1917), painter
- Robert Schwebler (1926–2012), economist
- Harald Siebenmorgen (1949–2020), director of the Badisches Landesmuseum
- Karl Siegrist (1862–1944), Mayor of Karlsruhe from 1906 to 1919
- Carl Steinhäuser (1813–1879), sculptor
- Emil Sutor (1888–1974), sculptor and sculptor
- Ulli Thiel (1943–2014), teacher and peace activist
- Hans Thoma (1839–1924), painter and graphic artist
- Gabriele Thome (1951–2003), professor of philology
- Wilhelm Trübner (1851–1917), painter and professor at the Karlsruhe Art Academy
- Ludwig Turban the Younger (1857–1930), Chief Executive Officer in Baden
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U-Z
- Hermann Veit (1897–1973), lawyer and politician
- Hermann Volz (1847–1941), sculptor
- Arthur von Brauer (1845–1926), politician and lawyer
- Berthold von Freydorf (1820–1878), General
- Karl Wilhelm Eugen von Freydorf (1781–1854), officer and minister of war
- Rudolf von Freydorf (1819–1882), politician
- Edgar von Gierke (1877–1945), pathologist
- Egon von Neindorff (1923-2004), riding master
- Joseph Victor von Scheffel (1826–1886), poet
- Friedrich von Weech (1837–1905), privy councilor and archivist
- Karl Weltzien (1813–1870), chemist
- Karl Wolf (1912–1975), athlete
- Ernst Würtenberger (1868–1934), painter
- Wolfgang Zeidler (1924–1987), judge and president at the Federal Constitutional Court
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
Grave of Brunhilde Baur
Memorial to those who fell in World War I.
Memorial for the victims of the National Socialist " euthanasia "
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
Web links
- Homepage of the main cemetery in Karlsruhe on the website of the funeral home
- The information center of the main cemetery in Karlsruhe
- Picture collection in the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe
Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 2.9 ″ N , 8 ° 26 ′ 7.5 ″ E