Inner Matthew cemetery

Main entrance to the Inner Matthew Cemetery

The Inner Matthew Cemetery is one of two Matthew Cemeteries in the city of Dresden . It is located in Friedrichstadt in the immediate vicinity of the Matthäuskirche and is one of the town's small cemeteries .

history

Matthew Cemetery and Church in March 2013

Bell tower on the cemetery grounds

The suburb (Friedrichstadt), then called Neustadt-Ostra, was demarcated from the Annenkirche parish in 1724 and became an independent parish. In the following year at the latest, today's Inner Matthew Cemetery was laid out for the members of the parish; the oldest books of the dead date from 1725, making it almost as old as the Old Catholic Cemetery , which was consecrated in the immediate vicinity in 1724. In contrast to the Old Catholic Cemetery, only a few and much simpler graves from the 18th century have been preserved on the Inner Matthäusfriedhof, which is due to the social structure of Friedrichstadt.

The Inner Matthew Cemetery, designed as a simple rectangle, was rebuilt shortly after it was built: From 1728, Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann built the Matthew Church on the northern part of the property. The Palais Brühl-Marcolini, built from 1727 (since 1849 Dresden-Friedrichstadt Hospital ), was directly connected to the cemetery grounds in the east . As a result of the expansion of Friedrichstadt and the operation of the hospital, the 1.14 hectare cemetery in the heart of the district proved to be too small in the course of the 19th century and was finally overcrowded in 1875. The Outer Matthew Cemetery was therefore laid out in 1851, which was expanded twice by 1880 and has been closed since 1983.

During the bombing of Dresden in February 1945, the St. Matthew's Church on the site of the cemetery was hit and burned down. Until the church was rededicated in 1978, services were held in the simple, single-storey celebration hall of the cemetery on the west side. A bell tower built in this context has been preserved in the present.

In addition to its function as a burial site, the area is also important for the district due to the rich tree population and is also known as the “green lung of Friedrichstadt”. The Evangelical Lutheran Annen-Matthäuskirchgemeinde is responsible for the Inner Matthew Cemetery.

Gravesites

Various gravestones from the 18th and 19th centuries that are listed as historical monuments have been preserved in the cemetery. On the west wall of the cemetery remains of simple buttress arches have been preserved. In addition to wall graves and simple burial, there are also urn graves on the Inner Matthäusfriedhof.

Around 1900, Cornelius Gurlitt highlighted, among other things, the tomb of Karl August Manitius (1801-1854), which was built as a family grave in 1808 and was a "classicist work in the style of Pettrich ". It is attributed to Friedrich Andreas Ullrich and the group of figures is named as a reunion in the afterlife . Friedrich Press created the grave cross for the tomb of the merchant Fritz Reinhold Kiefer (1882–1932). It was removed from the cemetery by Kiefer's heirs.

Buried personalities

Grave of Johann Andreas Schubert

• Johann Ludwig Bramsch (1811–1877), entrepreneur and factory owner
• Karl Wilhelm Clauss (1829–1894), founder of the technical educational institutions, inventor of the "heat free"
• Carl Ludwig Großmann (1876–1945), director of the Dresden City Collections
• Georg Moritz Heyde (1810–1886), stenographer
• Werner Hornuff (1924–2013), chamber virtuoso
• Karl August Manitius (1801–1854), poet and philosopher
• Johann Theodor Schmiedel (1831–1906), politician
• Peter Schreier (1935–2019), singer
• Johann Andreas Schubert (1808–1870), engineer, designer of the first German steam locomotive "Saxonia"
• Richard Seyffarth (1906–1985), porcelain restorer
• Wilhelm Walther (1826–1913), creator of the Princely Train

The grave of the painter Carl Gottlieb Peschel has not been preserved . The Pöppelmann crypt, in which, among others, Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann was buried, is located in the Matthäuskirche.

literature

• Inner Matthew cemetery . In: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony (Ed.): Monuments in Saxony. City of Dresden - Friedrichsstadt . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1994, pp. 94–99.
• Inner Matthew cemetery . In: The cemetery guide . Mammut, Leipzig 2011, pp. 134-136.

Web links

Commons : Innerer Matthäusfriedhof  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Inner Matthäusfriedhof on dresdner-stadtteile.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony . 22nd issue: City of Dresden, part 1. Meinhold, Dresden 1901, p. 266.
2. ↑ Outer Matthew Cemetery . In: The cemetery guide . Mammut, Leipzig 2011, p. 133.
3. ↑ Matthew's inner cemetery . In: The cemetery guide . Mammut, Leipzig 2011, p. 136.
4. ↑ Matthew's inner cemetery . In: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony (Ed.): Monuments in Saxony. City of Dresden - Friedrichsstadt . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1994, p. 94.
5. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony . 22nd issue: City of Dresden, part 1. Meinhold, Dresden 1901, p. 272.
6. ^ Hans Geller: Franz and Ferdinand Pettrich. Two Saxon sculptors from the classicism period . Jess, Dresden 1955, pp. 79-80.
7. ↑ Ingrid Roßki: Friedrichstadters carried Pöppelmann's corpse to the crypt . In: Sächsische Zeitung , July 8, 1999, p. 12.
8. ^ Illustration of the grave cross in: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony (Ed.): Monuments in Saxony. City of Dresden - Friedrichsstadt . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1994, p. 99.
9. ↑ Christel Hebig: About snuff boxes to religious art . In: Sächsische Zeitung , March 28, 1998, p. 16.

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 36 "  N , 13 ° 42 ′ 57.5"  E