Matthäusfriedhof (Chemnitz)
The Matthäusfriedhof in Chemnitz-Altendorf is a cemetery for the newly created parish Altendorf that was laid out during the Empire. It is located in the middle of old trees at the end of Zinzendorfstrasse, above Waldenburger Strasse. After the inauguration in 1891, the cemetery chapel was only built 20 years later in 1911 in the then modern Art Nouveau style. It has since been restored and the St. Matthew Congregation celebrated the 100th anniversary of the chapel in 2011. The cemetery is a listed "entity" - it is therefore a building ensemble that consists of many protected individual monuments and is under protection as a whole.
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The cemetery is a regular system on an approximately rectangular base. It has a right-angled system of paths with dense, largely original trees and hedges. There are several hereditary burials, mainly Altendorf industrialists, which are protected individual monuments.
On it stands a sophisticated chapel building, largely preserved in its original form, so the cemetery is an ensemble of urban history, architectural and gardening importance. Locally and artistically significant components of the cemetery are the listed graves that were built between 1892 and 1944, the grave cross made around 1900 next to the entrance, the cemetery chapel built in 1911, the war memorial built in 1921 and the fountain made around 1930.
Individual monuments
The listed "factual entirety of the Matthäus-Friedhof" - it is therefore a building ensemble that consists of various monuments - has the following individual features:
- Cemetery chapel,
- War memorial for members of the gymnastics club who fell in World War I,
- Hereditary funeral of the Langer family,
- Hereditary funeral of the Viecenz family,
- Hereditary funeral of the Wilsdorf family,
- Hereditary funeral of the Grassmann family,
- Hereditary funeral of the Meißner family,
- Hereditary funeral of the Soeldner family,
- Hereditary funeral of the Richter and Waldmann family,
- Hereditary funeral of the Richter and Emil Reimann families as well
- Groschel tomb
There are also two electroplating and a small fountain (near the cemetery chapel).
The cemetery chapel
Entrance portal with saying
Reimann tomb
Tomb judge
Richter and Waldmann tomb
Grassmann's tomb
Viecenz tomb
Garden monument
The cemetery design of the Matthäusfriedhof is a garden monument with its avenues, rows of trees, solitary trees, hedges and a birch rondelle, which was probably originally a grove of honor - also under monument protection. So it belongs to the totality of the Matthäus-Friedhof.
Greened tomb
Nature displaces human work
The trees keep growing
Graves disappear into the green
Fences are overgrown
Gradual fading
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.matthaeus.kirche-chemnitz.de/geschichte.html
- ↑ https://www.emil-reimann.de/de/emil-reimann/unternehmensgeschichte.html
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 43.3 " N , 12 ° 53 ′ 15.7" E