List of cemeteries in Dresden
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Briesnitz Inner Cemetery | Briesnitz | At the Kirchberg | 17,800 | around 1273 | Evangelical Lutheran | Church cemetery of the Briesnitz church
Bomb victims |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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
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
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Lt. Stadtlexikon , p. 41. This refers exclusively to cemeteries that were not built around a church.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ The size information is based on the information from Marion Stein: Friedhöfe in Dresden . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 2000.
- ^ 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.