New cemetery (Potsdam)
The municipal new cemetery in Potsdam was opened in 1867 according to plans by Peter Joseph Lenné and expanded several times, most recently in 1954. Today it covers an area of 25,789 m². Its main entrance is at Heinrich-Mann-Allee 25, opposite the old cemetery .
meaning
In front of the entrance is the only old surviving war memorial from the former garrison town of Potsdam. Originally intended for Berlin, it was unveiled here in October 1929. It is dedicated to the medical corps and bears the inscription on the obverse: THE ARMY SANITARY CORPS OF THE WORLD WAR 15001. MARINE. PROTECTIVE FORCES . On the back: TREUE UM TREUE 1914–1918 . Two soldiers look after a dying comrade on a truncated pyramid-shaped base. The monument is 6.12 m high and is based on a model by Hans Hubert Dietzsch , which was completed by Joseph Gobes from Berlin after his early death .
The cemetery was badly hit on the night of bombing on April 14, 1945 . After 1945 the policy of the new rulers to fight the spirit of Potsdam led to the fact that the predominantly Prussian-conservative old Potsdam population steadily relocated to the west. The graves of their relatives fell into disrepair, the SED saw no need for action.
Today the cemetery gives a mixed picture. On the one hand, one encounters neglected hereditary burials, on the other hand, some remarkable graves have been lovingly and painstakingly restored. What is striking is the lack of the Nikes , angels and “mourning women” that were so popular in the German Empire. If they were made of bronze, they probably fell victim to some non-ferrous metal collections during the GDR era.
Monuments in the cemetery
- War grave memorial and memorial stones for the victims of the bomb attack of April 14, 1945
- War grave memorial and memorial stones for the victims of the First and Second World Wars
- War grave memorial for victims of the Soviet Union and friendly countries
Graves of famous people
- Otto Becker (October 1, 1870 - October 16, 1954), organist and bell player of the Garrison Church (Potsdam)
- Eduard Claudius (1911–1976), writer
- Gustav Adolph Fintelmann (1846–1918), court garden director and director of the Royal Gardening College at the Wildlife Park near Potsdam
- Hans Geiger (1882–1945), physicist, Geiger-Müller counter tube (the family had a second tombstone set up in the Grunewald cemetery in West Berlin )
- Bernard von Gélieu (1828–1907), infantry general
- Gustav Graben-Hoffmann , called Graben-Hoffmann (1820–1900), singing teacher, composer and singer
- Egon von Kameke (1881–1955), painter
- Bernhard Kellermann (1879–1951), writer
- Friedrich Wilhelm Koch (1815–1889), sculptor, plasterer and manufacturer, "the glorified Friedrich Wilhelm IV. " ( Willi Wohlberedt )
- Hans Kölle (1880–1950), city garden and cemetery director
- Madelaine Baroness von Korff (December 25, 1862 - December 30, 1941), lady-in-waiting to the empresses
- Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher (1796–1868), court preacher in Potsdam
- Leopold Freiherr von Ledebur (1799–1877), historian and aristocrat researcher
- Otto Liebknecht (1876–1949), chemist, brother of Karl , 58 patents, inventor of the detergent Persil .
- Mechthilde Magnus (April 4, 1830 - March 19, 1909), first matron of the St. Josefs Hospital and Orphanage . Obituary: God only knows what sacrifices the dear deceased made from the foundation, what workload she took on her shoulders every day, inspired by deep love for God and neighbor, and how bravely she overcame all difficulties, setting no limits to her noble zeal. Already here on earth God rewarded her restless work with rich blessings: Her godly death was a triumphal procession to heaven, in order to rest there from all efforts and to receive the reward that is promised to the merciful.
- Gustav Meyer (1816–1877) City Garden Director of Berlin
- Maximilian Pflücke (1889–1965), chemist
- Georg Potente (1876–1945), garden director in Sanssouci, committed suicide when the Red Army marched in
- Günter Rüger (1926–2015) actor and director
- Louis Schneider (1805–1878), actor, theater poet, publicist and reader
- Franz Urbig (January 23, 1864 - September 28, 1944), banker, Villa Urbig
- Carl Velten (January 28, 1849 - October 27, 1925), imperial yacht captain, for many years head of the Kongsnæs sailor station in Potsdam
- Wolfgang Böhme (meteorologist) (born March 11, 1926 in Dresden; † February 24, 2012 in Berlin), long-time director of the GDR's Meteorological Service
Presumably cleared graves
- Heinrich Basedow the Elder , painter
- Paul Heiland , collector and art writer
- Hermann Hidding , sculptor
- Hans Ludendorff , astronomer, director of the astrophysical observatory
- Memorial stone for Dr. Karl Jühlke (1856–1886), colonial pioneer in German East Africa , murdered in Kismaju , Somalia
- Rudolf Presber , writer, 60 books
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Old and New Cemetery - page of the state capital Potsdam ; 2016
- ↑ Hans Geiger ( Memento of the original from May 10, 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. on GBBB-Berlin.com
- ↑ Due to the new use of the family cemetery, the tombstone is no longer visible after it was used for the grave of his great-great-grandson Joachim von Gélieu
- ↑ Source ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2013 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.
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '3.8 " N , 13 ° 4' 16.4" E