Michaelisfriedhof (Braunschweig)

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Map from 1914

The Michaelisfriedhof in Braunschweig was an Evangelical Lutheran cemetery on Hugo-Luther-Straße in the western ring area . The cemetery was laid out in 1775 and existed until the 20th century. Today the facility is built over with public facilities.

history

The St. Michaelis Cemetery laid out the Michaelisfriedhof in 1775 on the north side of Hugo-Luther-Straße (formerly Wolfskamp , later Weststraße ). Since the Michaeliskirche was considered to be the poor church in Braunschweig, poor people, but also people rejected by society, such as criminals, prostitutes and suicides, were buried in the cemetery. The Michaelisfriedhof was created when the medieval churches in the old town of Braunschweig began to move their cemeteries from the city center in front of the city gates in the 17th and 18th centuries.

With the inauguration of the Braunschweig Central Cemetery (today's main cemetery ) on October 1, 1887, the old decentralized cemeteries were no longer needed and gradually closed. After the right to rest in the Michaelisfriedhof expired in the 20th century, it was not preserved as a green area like other cemeteries, but built on. The Michaelis parish established its rectory 1 here (Hugo-Luther-Straße 60A). Today there is a district center in this former rectory. It houses the "Evangelical Church in the western ring area", in which the parishes of St. Michaelis, St. Martini and the Garden City Resurrection Church work together on a church and diaconal level, the Braunschweig Mothers' Center, the multi-generation house and the Plankontor district office. The multigenerational house was opened on July 2nd, 2004 by the then Lower Saxony Minister of Social Affairs, Ursula von der Leyen .

In 1949 the Swedish aid organization Rettet die Kinder ( Rädda Barnen ) donated a children's home to the city of Braunschweig. This was built on the east side of the former cemetery and handed over on September 23, 1949 and is now called Schwedenheim and is a day care center and a children's and family center. In the commemorative publication it was said: "To heal the wounds that the great world fire has inflicted".

Almost nothing has been preserved from the original cemetery. In front of the district center at Hugo-Luther-Straße 60A, an elaborately designed tombstone was erected to commemorate the cemetery.

Known buried

  • Wilhelm Bode (1812–1883), German judge and politician
  • Johann Heinrich Stobwasser (1740–1829), German lacquerware manufacturer. His grandson G. Stobwasser had a bronze bust placed for him on his tombstone in 1882.
  • Johann Heinrich Wilmerding (1749–1828), German lawyer and politician, mayor and city director of the city of Braunschweig

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Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 6.5 ″  N , 10 ° 30 ′ 31.8 ″  E