Main cemetery Ludwigshafen am Rhein
The main cemetery in Ludwigshafen am Rhein is the largest cemetery in the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein and the burial place of important personalities in the city.
history
After the independent community of Ludwigshafen was founded in 1853, its citizens initially had to continue to be buried in the then still independent mother communities of Mundenheim (Catholics) and Friesenheim (Protestants). It was not until July 1855 that the municipal administration bought an area south of Frankenthaler Straße from Friesenheim farmers and set up its own cemetery there, which was inaugurated on November 23, 1856. In 1864 the first expansion of the site to the south takes place.
In the years 1883 to 1885, a classicistic morgue was built in the entrance area on Frankenthaler Strasse, which was destroyed in the Second World War.
The cemetery was only given the name main cemetery in 1899 as a result of the incorporation of the communities of Friesenheim and Mundenheim. In the years that followed, the cemetery was expanded several times to almost 25 hectares today. In the course of a fundamental redesign between 1952 and 1955, the main entrance was relocated from Frankenthaler Straße to Bliesstraße, where the cemetery administration, the consecration chapel with morgue and the crematorium are now also located.
War graves
After the Franco-Prussian War , a field of honor for the eighteen dead from the city was inaugurated in 1873. In the main cemetery of Ludwigshafen there are 1599 graves of those who died in the First and Second World Wars and of 362 Russians, Poles, French and Yugoslavs who died in captivity .
Special departments
The Jewish community set up a separate department next to the main cemetery. In the meantime, Ludwigshafen's main cemetery has also been given a cemetery for burials for Muslim citizens.
A separate grave field was also dedicated to the victims of the BASF disaster of 1921 .
Graves of famous people
- Valentin Bauer (1885–1974), social democratic politician, mayor of the city of Ludwigshafen
- Franz Josef Ehrhart (1853–1908), social democratic politician, member of the Bavarian state parliament and the Reichstag
- Carl Grünzweig (1848–1913), industrialist and mayor of the city of Ludwigshafen
- Gustav Hatzfeld (1851–1930), police advisor, chief of the Ludwigshafen police
- Joseph Hoffmann (1810–1881), master builder and mayor of the city of Ludwigshafen
- Hans Klüber (1902–1981), Lord Mayor of Ludwigshafen
- Friedrich Krafft (1857–1936), Lord Mayor and Honorary Citizen of Ludwigshafen
- Georg Kutterer (1828–1896), Mayor of Ludwigshafen
- Heinrich Wilhelm Lichtenberger, first mayor of the city of Ludwigshafen after it was founded
- Franz Ludowici , industrialist
- Friedrich Lux (1854–?), Industrialist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner (1894–1971), lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag
- Julius Waldkirch (1840–1911), printer owner, publisher
- Wilhelm Waldkirch (1870–1942), publisher
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Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 51.4 " N , 8 ° 25 ′ 12.7" E