Kessenicher Bergfriedhof

The Kessenicher Bergfriedhof in late summer 2014

The Kessenicher Bergfriedhof (also: Neuer Kessenicher Friedhof ) is located at the end of the street Am Buchenhang on the edge of the Bonn district of Kessenich . Gregor-Mendel-Strasse ends below the cemetery . Because of its location on the eastern slope of the Venusberg , it is called "Bergfriedhof".

The cemetery was opened in 1893 after the closure of the old Kessenich cemetery on Nikolausstrasse , about 400 meters away . The cemetery with its protected trees is the resting place of many Bonn personalities; especially many professors from Bonn University are buried here. Some grave sites are lavishly designed. The 17,000 square-foot facility is bordered by a fence and has a blessing chapel from 1960. The cemetery stands as a monument under monument protection .

Graves of famous people

• Friedrich von Bezold (1848–1928), historian
• Bernhard Custodis (1876–1951), pastor
• Sebastian Dani (1899–1985), City Director of Bonn
• Franz Johann Guilleaume (1848–1914), entrepreneur
• Eduard Hegel (1911–2005), church historian
• Walther Holtzmann (1891–1963), historian
• Therese Körner (1901–1994), founding member of the Bonn CDU , city councilor (1946–1964)
• Jan Loh (1931–2018), Bonn original
• Hermann Pörzgen (1905–1976), journalist
• Johannes Justus Rein (1835–1918), geographer
• Theodor Saemisch (1833–1909), ophthalmologist
• Aloys Schulte (1857–1941), historian
• Karl Sell (1845–1914), church historian
• Werner Stürmer (1925–1988), artist
• Friedrich Karl Vialon (1905–1990), lawyer and State Secretary

Trivia

• In the crime thriller “Schnappralinen” by the author Sabine Trinkaus from 2015, the murder of a corpse found in the Kessenich mountain cemetery is investigated.

See also

• List of architectural monuments in the Kessenich district of Bonn

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Neuer Friedhof Kessenich , historic green areas, website of the Federal Home and Environment in Germany
2. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), number A 455
3. ^ Bonn scholars: historical sciences, 150 years of Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn, 1818–1968, Volume 6 of Bonn scholars: Contributions to the history of science in Bonn , Röhrscheid 1968, p. 284
4. ^ Custodis, Bernhard , Stadtlexikon Bonn
5. ↑ Memory of Sebastian Dani. In: SPD parliamentary group Bonn. October 14, 2004, accessed May 18, 2018 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} In Memoriam: Walther Holtzmann , Alma mater , issues 17–24, Bouvier 1965, p. 29
7. ↑ Dieter Partzsch: You once lived in Kessenich. Bonn 1997, p. 130
8. ↑ Christoph Meurer: Farewell to the every-paint-man. In: General-Anzeiger (Bonn) . April 14, 2018. Retrieved April 25, 2018 . 
9. ^ Klaus Hammann, Edwin Theodor Saemisch , 1969
10. ↑ Dieter Partzsch: You once lived in Kessenich. Bonn 1997, p. 136
11. ↑ Reading by book author Sabine Trinkaus: Licorice in front of Schnappspraline , May 22, 2015, Bonner General-Anzeiger

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 55.1 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 4.2 ″  E