Loschwitz cemetery

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Crucifixion scene by Johannes Hartmann at the chapel of the Loschwitz cemetery

The Loschwitz cemetery is next to the disused church cemetery of the Loschwitz church, the second burial site still in use today in the Loschwitz district of Dresden . Inaugurated around 1800, it has been a listed building since 1985 due to numerous valuable artist graves.

history

Around 1800 the church cemetery of the Loschwitz church had become too small for the community, so that at that time the Loschwitz cemetery was established on the Pillnitzer Landstrasse, which is still used as a cemetery today. Created as a meadow, the cemetery has been expanded several times over the years in the direction of the village center of Loschwitz and today consists of an old and a new part, which was laid out in 1918, and an urn grove completed in 1927 .

In 1893 the cemetery received a chapel, which was created by the Dresden architects Reuter & Fischer. The glass windows were designed by Wilhelm Walther , creator of the Dresden Princely Train ; a crucifixion scene above the central portal is by Johannes Hartmann from Leipzig. The bell of the chapel with the inscription "Peace" was made in 1947 by Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling from Apolda . During the Elbe floods in 2002 , the Loschwitz cemetery was under water, which also damaged the abundance of trees and plants. Repairs were carried out by volunteers. The Loschwitz cemetery was also flooded during the Elbe floods in summer 2013. This resulted in damage of around 150,000 euros.

Gravesites

Friedrich Press - Death with a bomb , sculpture on the grave of the watchmaker Paul Pleißner

The Loschwitz cemetery is the burial place of numerous regional and national important artists, who in turn created a large part of the tombstones. Many of them lived at least temporarily in the Künstlerhaus Dresden-Loschwitz , which is located directly opposite the cemetery. More than 60 grave sites in the cemetery are considered to be of particular artistic value, including the following graves:

  • Walter Arnold's grave

  • Grave of Friedrich Press

  • Grave of Sascha Schneider

  • Grave of Oskar Zwintscher

  • Grave of Werner Hartmann

Other artistically valuable graves are those of Wilhelm Lachnit and Hans Unger . The elaborate grave sculpture "Death with a bomb", which Friedrich Press designed in 1945 for the watchmaker Paul Pleißner, shows death with a bomb and a torch in hand. Since Pleißner had lost his business in the bombing of Dresden, the grave monument is now also considered a memorial for the Dresden aerial warfare victims. The following are also buried in the cemetery:

Grave of Eduard Leonhardi with Robert Henze's grave sculpture Knocking pilgrims
Martin Pietzsch's grave
Grave of Irena Rüther-Rabinowicz before the grave figure was stolen in October 2013

There are two war graves at the Loschwitz cemetery. A memorial for the dead of the First World War was inaugurated in 1923. Since 1956, three wooden crosses based on a design by Oskar Menzel have also commemorated those who died in the Second World War .

In October 2013, grave sculptures made of non-ferrous metal were stolen from several cemeteries in Dresden, including sculptures and tombs from seven graves in the Loschwitz cemetery. The graves affected include those of Vinzenz Wanitschke and Irena Rüther-Rabinowicz , whose grave was decorated with a copy of the Greek statue of the praying boy .

literature

  • Marion Stein: Cemeteries in Dresden . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 2000, p. 168.
  • Annette Dubbers (Ed.): Loschwitz . Self-published, Dresden 2003, p. 19.
  • Barbara Rühl: On the history of the Loschwitz cemetery . In: Ev.-Luth-Kirchgemeinde Dresden-Loschwitz (Hrsg.): 300 years Kirchgemeinde Dresden-Loschwitz. Festschrift . Self-published, Dresden 2004, pp. 102–106.

Web links

Commons : Loschwitzer Friedhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Architectural review . No. 3. J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1893.
  2. ↑ Barbara Rühl: On the history of the Loschwitz cemetery . In: Ev.-Luth-Kirchgemeinde Dresden-Loschwitz (Hrsg.): 300 years Kirchgemeinde Dresden-Loschwitz. Festschrift . Self-published, Dresden 2004, p. 103.
  3. ↑ Gratefully experienced: Dedicated flood aid . loschwitzer-kirche.de
  4. ↑ Annette Dubbers (Ed.): Loschwitz . Self-published, Dresden 2003, p. 19.
  5. ^ Eberhard Münzner: Loschwitzer Friedhof - graves under monument protection, leaflet of the ev.-luth. Dresden-Loschwitz parish, 2008
  6. ↑ Alexander Schneider: Thieves steal a dozen bronze sculptures in two cemeteries . sächsische.de, October 10, 2013.

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 46 ″  N , 13 ° 49 ′ 19 ″  E