List of burial places of famous people

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This is a list of burial sites and burial sites where personalities rest.

Note: Other people buried in the cemeteries mentioned are listed in the respective articles.

Egypt

Argentina

Australia

Belgium

Brazil

Chile

China

Denmark

Germany

Baden-Württemberg

Bavaria

Lower Franconia

Middle Franconia

Lower Bavaria

Upper Franconia

Upper Palatinate

  • regensburg
    • Ambassadors' cemetery at the Trinity Church , Gesandersstrasse in the old town.
      • Burials during the Thirty Years' War up to 1663: The cemetery was the burial place in 1633/1634 for four Protestant (Swedish) officers known by name and others unknown by name, who perished in the fighting for Regensburg . Their graves are not preserved. In July 1635, General Hans Ulrich von Schaffgotsch was buried here after his beheading; his grave was destroyed in 1674. From 1641 four Protestant envoys to the Diet of 1641 - Ludwig von Janowitz , envoy for Württemberg - and in 1653 - Johann Fromhold , envoy for Brandenburg - and an exile were buried. Their graves are preserved with grave slabs and inscriptions.
      • Burials of envoys and family members at the time of the Perpetual Diet : From 1663 to 1803 45 Protestant envoys and a similar number of family members were buried. In addition, members of the two exile families Gall and v. Stubenberg buried. All burials up to 1787 are documented in a burial register. Nine additional burials after 1787 to 1806 are known by name. For 17 deceased ambassador, two wives of ambassadors and for a Exulantenfamilie were epitaphs of the Renaissance and the Baroque built. All epitaphs and also many grave slabs have long Latin inscriptions that can be reconstructed from old copies
      • The following families of envoys and exiles are represented by epitaphs : von Marenholz (Brandenburg, Halberstadt), couple from Limbach (Braunschweig-Hannover), couple from Fabrice (Saxony-Weimar), Augustin Strauch (Electoral Saxony), couple from Schrader (Braunschweig-Lüneburg) , Son Ernst Eberhard and mother Maria Anna von Metternich (Magdeburg, Prussia), Knorr von Rosenroth (Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel), Björnstierna (Sweden), von Treskow, von Schott (Electoral Saxony), von Reck (Braunschweig-Hannover, Sachsen-Lauenburg) , von Hagen (Saxe-Gotha and Coburg), father and son Gallieris (both ambassadors of the United Netherlands), two married couples from Stubenberg (exiles; father and mother; son and 1st wife), wife of Thomas b. von Bonn (Bohn) (Sachsen-Altenburg), married couple Joachim Ludwig Freiherr Streun von Schwarzenau (Hessen-Darmstadt, Prussia), Wülcknitz (Hessen-Kassel), von Kniestedt (Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel), von Pollmann (Prussia), wife of the envoy von Geismar, b. from Wangenheim.
  • Regensburg Cathedral - Johann Michael Sailer
  • Schwandorf - Honorary grave Konrad Max Kunz
  • Pastures in the Upper Palatinate - Franz Pfleger

Upper Bavaria

Swabia

Berlin

Mitte district

Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district

Pankow district

District Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf

Spandau district

Steglitz-Zehlendorf district

Tempelhof-Schöneberg district

Neukölln district

Treptow-Köpenick district

Marzahn-Hellersdorf district

Lichtenberg district

Reinickendorf district

Brandenburg

Bremen

Hamburg

Hesse

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Lower Saxony

North Rhine-Westphalia

Rhineland-Palatinate

Saarland

Saxony

Saxony-Anhalt

Schleswig-Holstein

Thuringia

Finland

France

Paris

Surroundings of Paris

Other places in France

Vauvenargues Castle - Pablo Picasso , grave site on private property not freely accessible

Georgia

Greece

India

  • Hyderabad
    • Christian Cemetery, Narayanguda, divided into Catholic and Protestant cemetery
  • Mumbai
    • Sewri Christian Cemetery

Iraq

Ireland

Iceland

Israel

Italy

Canada

Croatia

Cuba

Netherlands

New Zealand

Norway

Austria

Burgenland

Carinthia

Lower Austria

Upper Austria

Salzburg

Styria

Tyrol

Vorarlberg

Vienna

Oceania

Atuona , Hiva Oa , Cimetière Calvaire - Jacques Brel , Paul Gauguin

Poland

Portugal

Lisbon

Madeira

Russia

Moscow

St. Petersburg

Sweden

Switzerland

Basel

Bern

Geneva

Zurich

Other Swiss places

Serbia

Slovakia

Spain

Tanzania

Ngorongoro - graves of Bernhard Grzimek and Michael Grzimek

Czech Republic

Tunisia

Turkey

Ukraine

United States of America

Connecticut

Georgia

Indiana

California

Maine

Massachusetts

Nevada

New Hampshire

new York

North Carolina

Rhode Island

Pennsylvania

  • Bucks County, Feasterville
  • Allegheny, Bethel Park
    • County Saint John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery - Andy Warhol

Tennessee

Vermont

Virginia

Wisconsin

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

England

London

other London burial grounds

Other places in England

Scotland

Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi
  • Hanoi
    • Ho Chi Minh mausoleum
    • Mai Dich National Cemetery - established after the end of the French occupation in 1954. Statesmen, writers, poets and other people who have ties to the current Vietnamese government are buried there.
  • Ho Chi Minh City
    • Mạc Đỉnh Chi Cemetery - Located in the center of Saigon, was the most prestigious French colonial cemetery in South Vietnam . Ngô Đình Diệm and his brother Ngô Đình Nhu are buried here. In the early 1980s, the cemetery was dismantled by the communist government as a reminder of the “corrupt” former regime of South Vietnam and France. The bodies were exhumed and cremated in a crematorium. A theme park was built on the site to erase all traces of the past. The founder of the Vietnamese martial art Vovinam Viet Vo Dao, Nguyễn Lộc , is also buried here.

See also

literature

Germany

  • Ebba D. Drolshagen : The Melancholy Garden. The Frankfurt main cemetery and its grave monuments in the 19th century. Fricke, Frankfurt 1987, ISBN 3-88184-095-8 .
  • Norbert Fischer : The little heart that lies here has lost its life - historic cemeteries in Germany. Verlag am Galgenberg, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-87058-112-3 .
  • Joachim Hoffmann : Berlin-Friedrichsfelde. A German national cemetery. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00959-2 .
  • Max Joseph Hufnagel: Famous dead in the southern cemetery in Munich. 500 witnesses to Munich's cultural, intellectual and political life in the 19th century. 4, revised. Edition Zeke Verlag, Munich 1983.
  • Alexander Langheiter, Wolfgang Lauter : The old south cemetery in Munich. MünchenVerlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-937090-34-4 . Illustrated book and tour of ninety graves.
  • Karl-Heinz Otto (Ed.): Fontanes Bornstedt. History of a cemetery in Brandenburg. Edition Märkische Travel Pictures, Potsdam 2002, ISBN 3-934232-04-3 .
  • Bernhard Müller-Cleve: From Central-Kirchhof 1887 to Central Cemetery 1987. A chronicle of one hundred years of cemetery history in Münster. Central Cemetery Commission, Münster 1987.
  • Helmut Hornbogen: The Tübingen city cemetery. Paths through the garden of memory. Schwäbisches Tagblatt, Tübingen 1995, ISBN 3-928011-16-2 .
  • Hanspeter Jordan: Graves of professors from the mining academy in Freiberg cemeteries. Association of friends and sponsors of the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg e. V. 2006, ISBN 978-3-86012-285-3 .
  • Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin tombs. Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-7759-0476-X .
  • Gerd Otto-Rieke: Graves in Munich - people who moved us. Volume 1: Discovering history in cemeteries. Alabasta, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-938778-08-1 .
  • Gerd Otto-Rieke: Graves in Bavaria (without Munich) - people who moved us. Volume 2: Discovering history in cemeteries. Alabasta, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-938778-09-8 .
  • Gerd Otto-Rieke: Graves in Hamburg - people who moved us . Volume 3: Discovering history in cemeteries. Alabasta, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-938778-10-4 .
  • Gerd Otto-Rieke: Graves in Karlsruhe - people who moved us . Volume 4: Discovering history in cemeteries. Alabasta, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-938778-19-7 .
  • Erich Scheibmayr , Last Home. Friedhöfe in Munich, self-published, Munich 1984.
  • Erich Scheibmayr, who? When? Where? Three parts. Self-published, Munich 1989, 1997, 2002.
  • Erich Scheibmayr, graves in Upper Bavaria-outside of Munich. Self-published, Munich 1995.
  • Helmut Schoenfeld: The Ohlsdorf cemetery. Graves, history, memorials. Christians, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-7672-1341-9 .
  • Willi Wohlberedt : Directory of graves in Greater Berlin and Potsdam with the surrounding area . 4 volumes. Berlin 1932/1952.

Austria

  • Christopher Dietz: The famous graves of Vienna. Falco, Klimt, Kraus, Moser, Mozart, Qualtinger, Schiele, Schubert, Strauss. Perlen-Reihe , Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85223-452-2 .
  • Clemens M. Gruber: Famous graves in Vienna. Böhlau, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-205-77007-2 .
  • Graves of celebrities Protestant cemetery Vienna-Matzleinsdorf. Evangelical Press Association, Vienna, ISBN 3-85073-277-0 .
  • Michael Wolf, Klaus Edel: Graves of celebrities Evangelical Cemetery Vienna-Simmering. Self-published, undated

France

  • Judi Culbertson, Tom Randall: Permanent Parisians. An Illustrated Guide to the Cemeteries of Paris. Robson, London 1991, ISBN 0-86051-734-9 .
  • Hans-Eberhard Lex: Parisian cemeteries, beautiful to die for. Rasch and Röhrig, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-89136-103-3 .

Great Britain

  • Catharine Arnold: Necropolis. London and its Dead. Simon & Schuster, London 2006, ISBN 0-7432-6833-4 .
  • Highgate Cemetery. Victorian valhalla . Introd. by Felix Barker. Photogr. by John Gay. Salem House, Salem, NH 1984. ISBN 0-88162-022-X
  • Judi Culbertson, Tom Randall: Permanent Londoners. An Illustrated Guide to the Cemeteries of London. Robson, London 1991, ISBN 0-86051-735-7 .
  • Michael Kerrigan: Who Lies Where - a guide to famous graves. Fourth Estate, London 1995, ISBN 1-85702-258-0 .
  • Hugh Meller: London Cemeteries. An Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer. Gregg, Godstone, Surrey, London 1985, ISBN 0-576-05010-5 .
  • Lynn F. Pearson: Discovering Famous Graves. Princes Risborough, 1998, ISBN 0-7478-0371-4 .
  • Alan Major: Who's Buried Where in Kent. The Last Resting Places of the Famous, Infamous, Notable, Curious and Eccentric. Meresborough, Gillingham 1990, ISBN 0-948193-48-4 .

Turkey

  • Hans-Peter Laqueur: Ottoman cemeteries and tombstones in Istanbul. (= Istanbuler Mitteilungen, Supplement 38), Wasmuth, Tübingen 1993, ISBN 3-8030-1737-8 .

Europe

  • Joachim Aubert: Handbook of the gravesites of famous Germans, Austrians and Swiss. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-422-00344-4 .
  • James Stevens Curl: A Celebration of Death. An introduction to some of the buildings, monuments, and settings of funerary architecture in the Western European tradition. Constable, London 1980, ISBN 0-09-463000-3 .
  • Mauro Felicori & Annalisa Zanotti (Eds.): Cemeteries of Europe. A Historical Heritage to Appreciate and Restore. Bologna 2004.
  • Matthias Gretzschel: Historic cemeteries in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Callwey, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7667-1233-0 .
  • Catherine Merridale : Night of Stone. Death and Memory in Russia. Granta, London 2000, ISBN 1-86207-374-0 ; Viking, New York City, USA 2001, ISBN 0-670-89474-5 .

United States of America

  • Mary Maynard: Dead and Buried in New England. Respectful Visits to the Tombstones and Monuments of 306 Noteworthy Yankees. Yankee Books, op . 1993, ISBN 0-89909-363-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ baden-baden.de: Cemeteries
  2. ^ Further relationships between the Württemberg people under House of Württemberg
  3. ↑ Burial directory of the Regensburg cemetery (pdf, 381 kB), accessed on January 12, 2020
  4. ↑ Klaus-Peter Rueß: Burials and grave monuments on the Kirch-Hoff zur Heyligen Dreyfaltigkeit at the Dreieinigkeitskirche in Regensburg . Regensburg State Library 2015
  5. ↑ Albrecht Klose, Klaus-Peter Rueß: The grave inscriptions on the sentry cemetery in Regensburg, Regensburger Studien Vol. 22. City Archives, Regensburg 2015. ISBN 978-3-943222-13-5 .
  6. ↑ The husband or father Ernst von Metternich was buried after his conversion to Catholicism with an epitaph in the Catholic Church of St. Emmeran .
  7. ↑ Neo-Gothic epitaph built later by the son.
  8. ^ Prussia, died before the credentials were presented as the Prussian envoy
  9. ↑ Walle. Cemeteries in Bremen. Bremen: Stadtgrün Bremen 1996.
  10. ↑ Gottesacker Herrnhut ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bruedergemeine-herrnhut.de
  11. ^ Rest in pieces: Old graves dug up for new bodies - Times of India . In: The Times of India . ( indiatimes.com [accessed October 23, 2018]).
  12. ↑ Cmentarz żydowski Łódzi, homepage
  13. ↑ Robert Oboussier was a well-known composer of vocal and instrumental works, he also worked as vice director of the society for copyright in musical works Suisa. He was born in Antwerp in 1900 and fled Germany to Switzerland before the Nazis.
  14. ^ Haidar Pasha Cemetery Information Sheet, Commonwealth War Graves Commission. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 7, 2011 ; Retrieved April 4, 2013 .
  15. ↑ Volksbund