List of cemeteries in Dresden

The churchyard at the first Frauenkirche To our dear women on an engraving by Moritz Bodenehr (1714)

Carl Wilhelm Arldt : The old Johanniskirchhof before its secularization (1858)

The list of cemeteries in Dresden shows the 58 cemeteries of the Saxon state capital Dresden , some of which are of cultural and historical importance. The majority of the cemeteries belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church. In addition to two Roman Catholic cemeteries, there are also two Jewish cemeteries in Dresden , including the oldest Jewish cemetery in Saxony from 1751, as well as four municipal and one free state cemetery.

The oldest cemetery in Dresden was the churchyard of the first Frauenkirche To our dear women , which, like the church, probably already existed in the 11th century, but was too small in the 16th century and leveled when the Frauenkirche was rebuilt from 1722 to 1727. A few fragments of the Frauenkirchhof are now in the Dresden City Museum . In the course of the plague epidemics from the 16th century onwards, new cemeteries were built outside the city walls. As early as 1571, in front of the Pirnaischer Tor, the first Johannisfriedhof was consecrated as the churchyard of the burial church of St. Johannis , where numerous victims of the plague were buried between 1633 and 1680 before the cemetery was closed in 1858. In addition to the Johanniskirchhof and the cemetery of the Bartholomäus Hospital , which was demolished in 1839 , the burial grounds Eliasfriedhof , which are still preserved today - next to the Old Catholic Cemetery, the oldest preserved cemetery in the city - and Trinity cemetery were considered to be so-called plague or epidemic cemeteries, which at that time were located outside the city walls .

Catholic and Jewish cemeteries were still banned in Dresden in the 18th century. After August the Strong converted to the Catholic faith in 1697, the influx of Catholic artists, scholars and civil servants increased so much that in 1720 the first Catholic cemetery in Dresden was laid outside the city walls, which is still preserved today as the Old Catholic Cemetery . As a result of long negotiations, the first Jewish cemetery in Saxony was consecrated in 1751 with the Old Jewish Cemetery in Dresden. In the course of the incorporation of surrounding villages into Dresden, the number of cemeteries in the city has grown continuously since the 19th century, so that currently 58 cemeteries belong to the city of Dresden.

A jury that included Margot Käßmann , among others , presented the “Bestattungen.de Award 2011” on November 8, 2011 and named the Johannisfriedhof as “Germany's most beautiful cemetery”.

Legend

• Image: Shows prominent graves of well-known personalities or overview images if such graves are missing. In the case of church cemeteries, the church itself was mostly used as a striking building for illustration.
• Name: Give the name of the cemetery.
• District: Names the district in Dresden in which the respective cemetery is located.
• Street: gives the address of the cemetery in Dresden.
• Size in m²: states the size of the cemetery in square meters .
• Establishment: states the year or approximate period in which the cemetery was established.
• Sponsorship: Name the denominational or public sponsorship.
• Other: Provides brief information on the graves of prominent personalities, information on war cemeteries or general information on the location or current use.

List of cemeteries in Dresden

image	Surname	district	Street	Size in m²	founding	Sponsorship	Others
	Old Annenfriedhof	Südvorstadt	Chemnitzer Strasse 32	39,000	1848	Evangelical Lutheran	Grave of Minna Wagner , Johann Karl Ulrich Bähr , Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld . Grave fields for 790, mostly civilian, bomb victims
	New Annenfriedhof	Löbtau	Kesselsdorfer Strasse 29/30	143,300	1875	Evangelical Lutheran	Grave of Hermann Reichelt and Paul Büttner , memorial stone of Abraham Gottlob Werner Over 900 bomb victims
	Briesnitz Inner Cemetery	Briesnitz	At the Kirchberg	17,800	around 1273	Evangelical Lutheran	Church cemetery of the Briesnitz church Bomb victims
	Briesnitz Outer Cemetery	Briesnitz	Merbitzer Strasse 21	13,700	1886	Evangelical Lutheran	Grave of the muse of the bridge - artist Lina Franziska Fehrmann (not preserved)
	Bühlau cemetery	Bühlau	Cunewalder Strasse	13,500	1898	Evangelical Lutheran	Church cemetery, grave of Hermann Rühle , Oskar Fritz Beier and Heinz Melkus
	Coschützer cemetery	Coschütz	Bernhardstrasse / Karlsruher Strasse	11,900	1898	Evangelical Lutheran	Grave of the sculptor Ewald Escher , memorial for the victims of the First World War
	Cossebauder Bergfriedhof	Cossebaude	Friedhofsweg	20,000	1919	Evangelical Lutheran	Hillside location, natural terraced design
	Cotta cemetery	Gorbitz	Gorbitzer Strasse 4-6	36,000	1897	Evangelical Lutheran	Grave of Elfride Trötschel , Memorial cross for the dead of the Second World War, including the 100 bomb victims resting here
	Dölzschen cemetery	Dolzschen	Friedhofsweg	7,700	1923	communal	Grave of Victor Klemperer , Karl Trinks , Wolfgang Lange ; The cemetery has been a listed building since 2000
	Elias Cemetery	Old Town ( Old Town I , Pirnaische Vorstadt )	Ziegelstrasse	12,800	1680	Evangelical Lutheran	shut down; Grave of Wilhelm Gotthelf Lohrmann , Johann Gottlieb Naumann , Justus Friedrich Güntz
	Eschdorf cemetery	Eschdorf	Am Kirchberg 3	3,280	around 1348	Evangelical Lutheran	Church cemetery; Grave of the father of Gottlieb Traugott Bienert , historical graves on the church wall
	Soviet garrison cemetery in Dresden	Albertstadt	Kannenhenkelweg	25,800	1945	Free State of Saxony	shut down, under monument protection, cemetery of fallen Soviet soldiers
	Gitterseer Friedhof	Grid lake	Friedhofstrasse	9,000	1895	Evangelical Lutheran	Church cemetery of the Paul Gerhardt Church
	Obergorbitz cemetery	Gorbitz	Rädestrasse 31	9,800	1905	Evangelical Lutheran	Memorial for fallen soldiers of World War II
	Heath cemetery	Trachau	Moritzburger Landstrasse 299	533,000	1934	communal	Graves of OF Weidling , Wilhelm Richter Mass graves for bomb victims and "ash graves" for thousands of dead who were burned in the old market
	Hellerau-Rähnitzer cemetery	Rähnitz	Ludwig-Kossuth-Strasse 20	6,950	1899	Evangelical Lutheran	Church cemetery; Memorial to the victims of the First World War, grave of John Ulrich Schroeder
	Hosterwitz - Maria am Wasser churchyard	Host joke	Kirchgasse 6	around 1,500	1500	Evangelical Lutheran	Church cemetery; Shut down 1870–1930; Graves of Wanda Bibrowicz , Max Wislicenus and Amadeus Webersinke
	Hosterwitzer cemetery	Host joke	Dresdner Strasse 20	7,360	1870	Evangelical Lutheran	Graves of the glass artists Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka and the plant breeder Otto Schindler 44 aerial warfare deaths in individual and collective graves
	Johannisfriedhof	Tolkewitz	Wehlener Strasse 13	246,000	1881	Evangelical Lutheran	Grave of Walther Schieck , Heinrich Ernemann , Charlotte Basté , Georg Treu 4,250 dead from World War II, including over 3,700 bomb victims and 328 executed
	Old Jewish Cemetery	Outer new town	Pulsnitzer Strasse 12	3,500	1751	Jewish	closed, oldest Jewish cemetery in Saxony
	New Jewish cemetery	Johannstadt	Fiedlerstrasse 3	11,900	1867	Jewish	Grave of Georg Arnhold , Rudolf Axen , Heinrich Conradi , Bruno Gimpel , Helmut Eschwege , Julius Wahle
	Kaditz - churchyard	Kaditz	Altkaditz	5,440	around 1500	Evangelical Lutheran	Church cemetery, memorial for those who fell from both world wars, family grave of Christian Gottlieb Ziller and Moritz Ziller
	Kaditz - 2nd cemetery	Kaditz	Serkowitzer Strasse	8,180	1862	Evangelical Lutheran	Tomb for 117 French prisoners of war from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871
	Kaditz - 3rd cemetery	Kaditz	Spitzhausstrasse	17,290	1878	Evangelical Lutheran	Individual graves and collective graves for 59 victims of the bombing of Dresden in February 1945, memorial for the victims of the wars of 1866 and 1870/71 and of the Second World War
	Old Catholic cemetery	Friedrichstadt	Friedrichstrasse 54	11,000	1721	Roman Catholic	Graves of Carl Maria von Weber , Friedrich Schlegel , Balthasar Permoser , Gerhard von Kügelgen 22 civilian victims of air raids in individual graves
	New Catholic cemetery	Friedrichstadt	Bremer Strasse 20	33,000	1874	Roman Catholic	Grave of Ludwig Richter , Nikolaus Graf von Seebach , memorials for 87 victims of the bombing of Dresden and those executed in the courtyard of the prison on Münchner Platz during the Nazi era
	Klotzsche - churchyard	Klotzsche	Altklotzsche 63a	1,500	1321	Evangelical Lutheran	Cemetery of the old Klotzsche church
	Klotzsche old cemetery	Hellerau	At the Hellerrand 2a	19,930	1886	Evangelical Lutheran	Grave of Karl Gjellerup , Sophus Ruge , Woldemar Kandler , Karl Schmidt-Hellerau
	New Klotzsche cemetery	Klotzsche	At the cemetery 6	15,000	1932	Evangelical Lutheran	Grave of the children's book illustrator Gertrud Caspari Graves for 50 air war victims (some overbeds) and 33 soldiers
	Langebruecker cemetery	Langebrück	Kirchstrasse 44	10,300	around 1288	Evangelical Lutheran	Church cemetery, graves of Jean Louis Nicodé and Hugo Hickmann , some graves from the Baroque period
	Leuben - churchyard	Leuben	Altleuben	520	around 1362	Evangelical Lutheran	Church cemetery, closed since the end of the 19th century
	Leuben cemetery	Leuben	Pirnaer Landstrasse 113	24,400	1675	Evangelical Lutheran	Grave of Caroline Neuber , Christian Gärtner's grave has not survived 29 aerial warfare deaths in individual and collective graves and 14 deaths from hospital trains
	Leubnitz-Neuostra cemetery	Leubnitz	Altleubnitz	23,000	around 1288	Evangelical Lutheran	Church cemetery, numerous historical gravestones, graves of Johann Georg Palitzsch , Friedrich Adolf Willers , Ulli Melkus , Bernhard Kretzschmar Collective grave with 37 air war victims
	Lockwitz cemetery	Lockwitz	Maxener Strasse	11,000	1757	Evangelical Lutheran	Memorial for the victims of both world wars. Individual and collective graves for 23 aerial warfare deaths
	Loschwitz - churchyard	Loschwitz	Pillnitzer Landstrasse 9	around 400	1708	Evangelical Lutheran	Church cemetery, closed since 1907, under monument protection since 1978, memorial stone for Gerhard von Kügelgen , grave of Eduard Maria Oettinger and James Ogilvy 34 air war victims in collective and individual graves
	Loschwitz cemetery	Loschwitz	Pillnitzer Landstrasse 80	17,700	1806	Evangelical Lutheran	“Artists cemetery”, a listed building since 1985, graves of Hermann Glöckner , Walter Arnold , Wilhelm Lachnit , Hans Theo Richter , Kurt Beyer , Sascha Schneider , Karl Kröner , Oskar Zwintscher , Richard Müller
	Mark's cemetery	Pieschen	Hubertusstrasse 1	45,000	1886	Evangelical Lutheran	War memorial for the victims of the First World War, grave of Christian Janentzky Individual and collective graves for 50 aerial warfare deaths
	Inner Matthew cemetery	Friedrichstadt	Friedrichstrasse 43	11,411	1724	Evangelical Lutheran	Grave of Wilhelm Walther and Johann Andreas Schubert 18 civilian victims of air raids in individual graves
	Outer Matthew Cemetery	Friedrichstadt	Bremer Strasse 18	20,435	1851	Evangelical Lutheran	shut down; Grave of Emerich Ambros , memorials for victims of the First and Second World War, also for the more than 700 bomb victims buried here
	Inner Neustädter Friedhof	Leipzig suburb	Friedensstrasse 2	42,000	1732	Evangelical Lutheran	Graves of Elisa von der Recke , Christoph August Tiedge , Christiane Karoline Schlegel ; numerous baroque tombs Individual and collective graves for 22 bomb victims and collective grave for 11 civilians shot by the Red Army in May 1945
	North Cemetery	Albertstadt	Kannenhenkelweg 1	35,000	1901	communal	former military cemetery, graves of Adolph von Carlowitz , Friedrich Olbricht , Hans Oster Collective graves for over 1,500 dead in World War II, including 475 bomb victims from February, March and April 1945 - mostly fire brigade members
	Inner Plauenscher cemetery	Plauen	Reckestrasse 6	4,000	around 1296	Evangelical Lutheran	Grave complex by Gottlieb Traugott Bienert with grave sculptures by Robert Henze , gravesite Erwin and Friedrich Bienert based on a design by Walter Gropius and graves by Fritz and Rolf Reuter
	Outer Plauenscher cemetery	Plauen	Bernhardstrasse 141	2,800	1882	Evangelical Lutheran	Graves of Enno Heidebroek , Walther Pauer , Fritz Löffler , Hans Görges , Georg Mierdel 128 aerial warfare deaths in individual and collective graves, civilians and military personnel, from 13./14. January 17th and April 17th 1945
	Schönborn cemetery	Schönborn	Seifersdorfer Strasse 5	1,560	around 1297	Evangelical Lutheran	Church cemetery of the Schönborn church
	Schönfeld - churchyard	Schönfeld	Borsbergstrasse 6	around 1,000	around 1300	Evangelical Lutheran	Closed in 1855, church cemetery, grave of Augusta Constantia von Friesen , daughter of Countess Cosel and Augustus the Strong , in the Schönfeld church
	Schönfeld cemetery	Schönfeld	Borsbergstrasse / Bühlauer Strasse	14,900	1790	Evangelical Lutheran	Cemetery tombs from the 18th century
	Stephen's Cemetery	Meusslitz ( Zschachwitz )	New street	30,000	1897	Evangelical Lutheran	Grave complex for forced laborers from the Flossenbürg concentration camp , 37 air war victims in individual and collective graves . Graves of Herbert Kegel and Irmgard Uhlig
	St. Pauli Cemetery	Leipzig suburb	Hechtstrasse 78	110,000	1864	Evangelical Lutheran	Graves of Georg Friedrich Alfred Graf von Fabrice , Franz Ludwig Gehe and Gerhart Potthoff and the parents of Erich Kästner 428 war victims in collective grave, 200 of them bomb dead. Collective grave for 166 members of the Kgl who died in the First World War in Dresden hospitals. Saxon Army
	Striesen cemetery	Striesen	Gottleubaer Strasse 2	59,500	around 1883	Evangelical Lutheran	Graves of Friedrich Pappermann , Rudolph Hölbe , Max Helas , Wilhelm Christian Crecelius , Joachim Zschocke , Nikolaus Joachim Lehmann
	Trinity Cemetery	Johannstadt	Fiedlerstrasse 1	93,000	1816	Evangelical Lutheran	Grave of Carl Gustav Carus , Ernst Rietschel , Caspar David Friedrich , Friedrich Wieck , Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient , Therese Malten 39 civilian aerial warfare deaths and 48 soldiers' graves
	Unkersdorf cemetery	Unkersdorf	At the Schreiberbach	1,300	before 1400	Evangelical Lutheran	The resting place of the villagers and pastors, was built at the same time as the Unkersdorf Church in the 14th century
	Tolkewitz urn grove	Tolkewitz	Wehlener Strasse 15	70,500	1911	communal	exclusively urn burials, crematorium, graves of Heinrich Barkhausen , Erich Ponto , Richard Mollier , Max Immelmann
	White Deer Forest Cemetery	White deer	At the Heiderand 8-10	18,000	1898	Evangelical Lutheran	Graves of Manfred von Ardenne , Antonia Dietrich , Martin Flämig , Arthur Schloßmann , Heinrich Lahmann , Max Arnhold , Karl von Appen Bomb victims
	White cemetery	Whitish	Main road	6,000	around 1235	Evangelical Lutheran	Church cemetery, grave of Hugo Senfft von Pilsach , historical gravestones Nine aerial warfare deaths
	Weixdorf Kirchhof - Lausa	Weixdorf ( Lausa )	Koenigsbrücker Landstrasse 375	around 2,000	around 1345	Evangelical Lutheran	Church cemetery, graves of Samuel David Roller and the noble families Dohna , Schönberg and Schönburg-Waldenburg
	Weixdorf cemetery	Weixdorf ( Lausa )	Hermsdorfer Allee 1	15,000	1830	Evangelical Lutheran	historical inscription "Quiescant in pace!" from 1830 at the entrance 26 aerial warfare deaths in individual and collective graves and 10 soldiers (some of the grave sites are no longer known)
	Wilschdorf - churchyard	Wilschdorf	Reineckeweg 5	around 1,200	12th Century	Evangelical Lutheran	Church cemetery, closed since 1893, memorial plaque for the victims of both world wars on the outer wall of the cemetery
	Wilschdorf cemetery	Wilschdorf	Reineckeweg 8	2,356	1893	Evangelical Lutheran	Cemetery for the villagers, peasant graves partly decorated with ears of corn

See also

• List of sacred buildings in Dresden

literature

• Hansjoachim Kluge: Dresden's cemeteries and grave monuments in the time of the wars of freedom and romanticism . Baensch Foundation, Dresden 1937.
• Gertraude Stahl-Heimann: Dresden cemeteries and their special features . Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung GmbH, Heidelberg 1996.
• Dresden History Association V. (Ed.): Mourning and Remembrance - Dresdner Friedhöfe im Wandel (= Dresdner Hefte 127), Dresden, 2016 ( table of contents ).
• Saxon Military History e. V. (Ed.): The military cemetery Dresden Albertstadt (The north cemetery) . Self-published by the working group “Saxon Military History e. V. ", Dresden 1998.
• Simone Meinel (Ed.): Eliasfriedhof . Friends of Eliasfriedhof Dresden eV, Dresden 1999.
• Marion Stein: Cemeteries in Dresden . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 2000.
• Frank Thiele (Ed.): Old Jewish cemetery in Dresden Neustadt . Hille, Dresden 2000.
• HATiKVA, Project Group Alter Jüdischer Friedhof (Ed.): "... that we subdue to plead with a grave site ...". The old Jewish cemetery in Dresden . Hentrich & Hentrich, Teetz 2002.
• Frank Thiele (Hrsg.): New Jewish cemetery in the Dresden Johannstadt . Hille, Dresden 2003.
• Gudrun Schlechte: The Old Catholic Cemetery in Friedrichstadt in Dresden . Hille, Dresden 2004.
• Holger Hase and Wolfgang Scheder: Dresden war cemeteries. Places of remembrance for the victims of war and tyranny . Edited by Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge . Dresden 2010
• The Dresden cemetery guide . Mammut Verlag, Leipzig 2011.

Web links

Commons : Friedhöfe in Dresden  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A list of gravestones from the churchyard that were still preserved in 1714 names 1351 different grave sites. See Stadtlexikon Dresden . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1994, p. 139.
2. ↑ Lt. Stadtlexikon , p. 41. This refers exclusively to cemeteries that were not built around a church.
3. ↑ Germany's most beautiful cemetery is in Dresden ( memento of the original from February 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Sächsische Zeitung , November 9, 2011. 
4. ↑ The size information is based on the information from Marion Stein: Friedhöfe in Dresden . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 2000.
5. ^ Number after Marion Stein: Friedhöfe in Dresden . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 2000, p. 174; juden-in-Mittelachsen incorrectly states the size as 30,000 square meters.

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