Cottbus cemeteries

The history of today's Cottbus cemeteries goes back to the early days.

History of the Cottbus cemeteries

The first burial places that have been handed down to us were cemeteries at the upper church , the monastery church , the castle church and the Christ church , none of which remains today. Prominent and wealthy citizens as well as nobles of the area were buried in the churches. Numerous preserved grave monuments testify to this, including the grave slab of the city founder in the monastery church with a crab, the city's heraldic animal still valid today. There are several cemeteries in Cottbus , but not all of them are managed . Their number has increased by leaps and bounds, especially due to the incorporation of surrounding towns.

The Cottbus cemeteries

Südfriedhof

Celebration hall of the south cemetery

The south cemetery is located on Dresdner Strasse, corner of Hermann-Löns-Strasse. In 1900 the city council decided to open a new and larger cemetery in the south of the city. However, the inauguration did not take place until 1904. On the night of June 25th to 26th, 1904, the remains of several respected families from their hereditary burials were transferred to the new cemetery in front of the Spremberger Tor. The exhumed found their final resting place in collective graves that are still recognizable today. The first funerals took place in the same month. The consecration sermon was given on November 20, 1904. The 2.27 hectare cemetery was assigned to the southern part of the city between Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße (today Karl-Liebknecht-Straße ) and Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz (today Brandenburger Platz). After the Second World War , the cemetery was redesigned by the garden architects Joachim Scherzer and August Wiggon and took on the character of a forest park that merges into the "Madlower Gorges". In 2009, the celebration hall, built in 1904 in a neo-Gothic style, was extensively refurbished , creating barrier-free access. During the renovation, wall paintings with floral elements were restored. The original hangings and tiles have been made visible in the choir room. The main entrance consists of a brick gate built in Nordic brick Gothic, through which one reaches the main avenue. Cottbus personalities found their final resting place along this avenue (e.g. Carl Thiem , founder of the Carl Thiem Clinic Cottbus ). 500 meters south of the celebration hall is the bell tower built in 1945, which commemorates the victims of the bombing of February 15, 1945. Not far from there is the war cemetery for the military and civilian victims of the First and Second World Wars, on which a stone also commemorates the Polish victims. The “New Jewish Cemetery” is also nearby. In the Friedhain , an aesthetically restored piece of forest right behind the bell tower, near-natural forest burials are carried out. On September 24, 2011, a communal urn grave for star children was created so that their relatives also have a place to mourn and reflect.

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New Jewish cemetery

The new Jewish cemetery is located on the site of the Südfriedhof. After the old Jewish cemetery was fully occupied in 1916, a new Jewish burial site was needed. The new Jewish cemetery was laid out in 1917/18 as today's part of the city's main cemetery (Südfriedhof). The 5141 m² area was acquired in exchange for a 6300 m² property. By way of an exception, Judicial Councilor Abraham Hammerschmidt was allowed to have his wife Berta Hammerschmidt buried on the site in November 1916 and to erect a memorial to her in the 100 m² fenced-in forest. Not only Jews from Cottbus were buried in the cemetery, but also from the communities of Calau , Drebkau , Spremberg , Senftenberg and Großräschen . Around 1929 the cemetery hall was built from red-brown brick masonry. It is used today as a warehouse. However, the Jewish community is striving for a restoration in accordance with the monument and use as a mourning hall. When the main cemetery was expanded, the Jewish part was enclosed on all sides by the south cemetery in the 1930s. The last burial during the Nazi era took place in December 1940, then the Jewish community was almost wiped out through deportation and extermination . Only twelve people of Jewish faith survived the reign of terror of the National Socialists . Occasional funerals took place until 1968. The cemetery became increasingly neglected until the end of the 1980s.

In the mid-1990s, the site of the new Jewish cemetery was returned to the Jewish Claims Conference . On July 15, 1998, the Jewish community in Cottbus was re-established and since then burials have taken place again in the cemetery. In July 2008 the cemetery was desecrated by strangers. There are around 60 tombstones , most of which have a Star of David .

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North Cemetery

Celebration hall in the north cemetery

The north cemetery is located on Schmellwitzer Strasse, corner of Nordring. The Cottbus North Cemetery was inaugurated on November 20, 1870 and expanded as early as 1892 where the Schmellwitz district border was once located . It was planned to make it the main cemetery in Cottbus, but the southern cemetery was expanded to become the central cemetery. The park-like facility is divided into four main fields by the main and cross paths. The tree-lined middle path leads through the main gate to the celebration hall. The first hall was an open one and was rebuilt in 1872. In the same year the cemetery was expanded for the first time. In 1929 the cemetery was expanded again by including the hereditary burial of the Korn-Brunschwig family and the new Brunschwig cemetery. Today's celebration hall was built in 1929 in the New Objectivity style and extensively renovated in 2008. The cemetery is the final resting place of important Cottbus personalities from the economic, intellectual and cultural life. Monuments remember Walter Drangosch, librarian, archivist and city historian, honorary citizen of Cottbus; Heinrich Liersch, gardener and local draftsman, Gotthold Schwela ; Christian Schwela , Sorbian teacher and journalist; Auguste Löber , b. Feige, founder of the Auguste Foundation ; Ludwig Spannuth-Bodenstedt , director; Hugo Ruff, co-founder of the Association for Local History; Prof. Behn, high school teacher and co-founder of the gymnastics club in 1861; Otto Klein, librettist of the Goetze opera Der goldene Pierrot and Elisabeth Wolf, painter and first Cottbus honorary citizen after 1945. Unfortunately, in 1960 many gravestones were torn down. The gravestones of the city archivists Robert Kalwa and Fritz Schmidt, the Kommerzienrat Albert Liersch, the personal physician of Prince Pückler , the medical council LW Liersch and the musician Theodore Pillicard, whose stone was donated by French officers in 1871, are missing. In front of the chapel, but outside the cemetery, there is a Soviet memorial, which commemorates the fallen soldiers of 1945. According to the city administration, the bones were reburied in the honor cemetery at the south cemetery.

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Schmellwitz cemetery

The Schmellwitz cemetery is located in the Schmellwitz cemetery settlement on Forststraße. Before that, there was a small cemetery near the old village school. The development of today's facility, in a northerly direction in a pine forest, did not begin until the end of the First World War (1914–1918). An avenue of lime trees leads from the portal to a small, typically rural party hall. A special feature is the eye-catching arrangement of the gable . A small ornamental gable of the same shape is in front of the Gothic main gable. Both gables are crowned with crosses. In the cemetery there is a war cemetery in honor of the Schmellwitzers who fell in World War II.

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Ströbitzer cemetery

The Ströbitzer Friedhof is located on the L49 approx. 600 meters outside the city limits in the direction of Kolkwitz . A special feature of the cemetery is a communal grave for the communities of Groß Lieskow , Klein Lieskow and Tranitz, which fell victim to open- cast lignite mining . There is also a war cemetery for the victims of the Second World War in the cemetery.

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Soviet military cemetery

The Soviet military cemetery is located on Dresdener Strasse next to the Südfriedhof in the direction of Madlow. There is a memorial for German war dead and a memorial for fallen Soviet soldiers.

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Cemeteries of the incorporated localities

The cemeteries of the incorporated localities all have a village character. They are usually very small, but important for the grieving members of the city districts, so that they have the place of remembrance within easy reach.

Branitz cemetery

The Branitz cemetery is located on Kiekebuscher Straße. A war cemetery designed as a grave with a simple memorial stone commemorates the fallen Soviet soldiers.

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Dissenchen cemetery

The Dissenchener Friedhof is located approx. 500 meters outside the district in the direction of Schlichow. It is laid out as a forest cemetery and overgrown with a large population of old pine trees. Diagonally behind the celebration hall is a war cemetery, consisting of a roofed roundabout and four symmetrically arranged triangular fields with wooden crosses.

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Döbbrick cemetery

The Döbbricker Friedhof is located on Döbbricker Dorfstraße. An old document proves that the municipality of Döbbrick has bought a place for a new cemetery within the village. This cemetery is located on Döbbricker Dorfstrasse. The new area in the Döbbricker Dorfstraße was designed into a cemetery area through the work of all community residents. It was inaugurated on June 22, 1910 on the occasion of a funeral (Hans Kaschka). On March 26, 1911, the Cottbus company Pabel began building the church in Döbbrick, which was then consecrated on December 18, 1911. The building was built in neo-rococo style.

It is not known exactly where the first cemetery was in Döbbrick.

It was soon too much for the Maibergers to take their dead about 6 km to the Döbbrick cemetery. Therefore, they privately acquired the cemetery that belonged to Sielow. In the "Cemetery and funeral regulations for the community of interested parties Maiberg" from 1933 you can read in excerpts:

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Gallinchen cemetery

The town of Gallinchen lies to the west on the B 97. Up to the present day, most recently at the end of the 1980s, Bronze Age graves were found during construction work that could no longer be assigned. The village of Gallinchen has a historic cemetery, the existence of which hardly anyone knows anything today. It was on the edge of the Spree floodplain, burials were probably there until the end of the 19th century, and in a few exceptions even a few years later. A decision about the official closure of this cemetery is not known. The old map from the reparation period (see above right) is the only evidence of this cemetery, nothing in the village itself reminds of it. For a better overview, this cemetery is also marked with a green dot. In this cemetery, Georg Daniel von Sonnentag 1734 was buried in a crypt befitting his status. His sister Helene Maximiliane von Sonnentag was also laid to rest in the family's grave vault in 1798. It was not until the 1970s that the remains of the nobles' tombs were leveled. Today the area is used privately for a car park. At the beginning of the 20th century, the decision was made to build a new cemetery north of Gallinchen, on the B 97. This cemetery was also created and enlarged in terms of area during the GDR era. The celebration hall suffered great damage from grenade impacts during World War II and was restored after 2000, as was the entire cemetery after it was taken over by the city of Cottbus.

The location of today's Gallinchen cemetery was also marked in blue, as it did not yet exist in 1782, so it could not be drawn on the map of the year mentioned. Today's cemetery is located directly on Gallinchener Hauptstrasse. Immediately at the entrance to the left is a memorial for the fallen soldiers of the First World War, on which the victims are remembered by name (with rank and according to the years of death 1914, 1916, 1917 and 1918). Above is the inscription:

"The victims of both world wars urge peace - they died in the world war for their fatherland"

After the war grave memorial had been maintained by the village club for years under a contract with the city of Cottbus, the city canceled the contract at the end of last year. The city of Cottbus is now responsible for maintenance and design again. The area of ​​the war cemetery is surrounded by a well-cut green hedge.

Overall, the cemetery is laid out very clearly, there are the usual row graves, as well as many family graves. The Gallinchener Friedhof is located in the Gallinchener Hauptstrasse. A war cemetery is laid out right behind the entrance.

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Great Gaglow Cemetery

The current cemetery does not belong to the parish. According to information from the parish office, the former cemetery of Groß-Gaglow was deed before the 20th century, documents no longer exist. The Protestant village church is a neo-romantic hall building from 1891. It is a red brick building with stepped buttresses, the apse has 4 cross vaults, a horseshoe gallery and wooden furnishings. A gilded wooden coat of arms epitaph for Wolff Friedrich von der Heyde († 1742) is also preserved here, the oval portrait of the deceased is decorated in an acanthus frame and surrounded by rich trophy decorations.

On today's cemetery in Groß-Gaglow, diagonally across from the church in Groß-Gaglow, there are 2 memorial stones.

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Kahren cemetery

The Kahren cemetery with the war cemetery is located on Frauendorfer Weg, approx. 600 meters outside the city limits. The first original document that mentions the small town of Kahren is in the Berlin-Dahlem State Archives. The church was mentioned in documents as early as 1300, sermons in Sorbian were given from around 1549/50. In 1573 extensive maintenance measures had to be carried out, but the old weather vane with its initials B. v. P., N. v. L. (Balthasar von Pannwitz, Nickel von Löben 1573), as well as an old wooden head depicting John the Baptist. An old grave monument made of sandstone is attached to the inner wall of the church opposite the pulpit. It commemorates the pastor Johann Richter (* 1584, † 1647), who worked as pastor in Kahren from 1613. In the 19th century the church was given a three-sided gallery. There is a cemetery around the church, which is enclosed by a wall. The church is now a listed building, there are tombstones of the members of the von Pannwitz family who were buried in the crypts (at that time landowners and lords of Kahren). In 1927 one wall of the church collapsed during a flood disaster. There were still some (about 6) coffins here, with a children's coffin close behind. Some bones, a skull with 2 teeth and one with still recognizable red hair could also be recovered, although unfortunately there is no more detailed information about the people buried there. 30 known and 62 unknown German soldiers and 3 unknown Soviet soldiers are buried in the cemetery in Kahren, all of whom fell in Kahren between April 18 and April 20, 1945. In 1959 a new mourning hall was built and inaugurated in June of the same year. On October 3, 1990, on the occasion of the reunification, a “standard beech” was planted. There are Bronze Age grave fields, whose graves are equipped with vessels in beautiful, functional shapes (old pottery). In 1659 skulls and ancient Roman coins were found, but there are no more detailed records.

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New Kiekebusch cemetery

The old Kiekebusch cemetery is on Spreestrasse. It was built on the edge of the village, was enclosed by houses due to the steady influx of population and the resulting expansion of the community and could no longer be expanded. Therefore it was closed and a new cemetery opened on Neue Friedhofstrasse. Today it is an open green square with a memorial stone for the victims of the First and Second World Wars and some still preserved grave sites.

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Madlow Cemetery

The old Madlower cemetery was located directly at the Martinskirche. Funerals were held around the church until the 1950s. There were 2 war graves here, which were tended by the church, but which did not disappear in a traceable manner between 1960 and 1970. At the moment only the grave of Pastor Helmut Richter remains, for which the following data can be found in the Cottbus City Archives: Pastor Helmut Richter, * March 20, 1892 in Boossen; † February 23, 1953 in Madlow.

Pastor Richter was married to Mrs. Elsa, his daughter Ilse was born on July 4th, 1928. In the residents' registers for 1935 and 1937 it is still listed at Alte Poststraße 7 in Madlow. Otherwise there is well-tended lawn and an evergreen fence.

Today's Madlower Friedhof is located on Madlower Hauptstrasse. Old writings from the Brandenburg State Archives in Potsdam show that the cemetery for Madlow was rebuilt in 1875/76, although initially there was no celebration hall. This was only built by the Pabel company much later, around 1900.

In 2012 the celebration hall was completely renovated and reopened in 2003.

Here, too, there is a war cemetery with around 40 wooden crosses for the victims of the Second World War. Each one has their name, date of birth, and date of death, and many also have their rank. A law guarantees the indefinite lay-time of war victims, who therefore still rest under the manicured lawn today. According to a decision of the city, the Madlower Friedhof should be closed in 2012 and the deceased of the place should be buried in the south cemetery of the city of Cottbus. It is only thanks to the initiative of the villager Mrs. Behrendt from Madlow that the decision was suspended for an indefinite period. She organized collections of signatures, citizens' meetings and protest actions in which the citizens expressed their displeasure. They found support from the Madlow Volunteer Fire Brigade. There is a contract for the use of long-term grave stalls for use until 2041. The districts of Striesow and Schmellwitz, whose cemeteries threatened the same fate, followed this example. Many graves of important Madlower citizens are no longer there, for example the final resting place of Pastor Batsch, a long-standing and well-deserved pastor from Madlow. The tomb of the royal commercial judge Paul Willnow (born August 13, 1855 - May 25, 1913) has also been leveled. The family grave of the former Karnbach family from Madlow can only be recognized by the existing iron fence, in the Cottbus city archive only the entry of a Marie Karnbach (born September 4, 1876 in Madlow, married since November 16, 1890 in Madlow and died on November 10, 1876) is still recognizable March 1962 in Cottbus) to the known family. On the other hand, gravestones lying loosely in the grass remind of deceased citizens of Madlow, such as Mrs. Marie Scherun, nee. Scheppan (1894–1986) and a few others. Due to the expiry of the lay-time, these graves are no longer available, only the memorial stones still remind of the former Madlower citizens. On the other hand, a fenced family grave of approx. 30 m² reminds of the former mill owner of the small Priormühle Vogel. There is still the foundation of a former monument and the tombstone with the inscription:

Mill owner Vogel b. April 6, 1827 d. July 1, 1892

The tomb of the long-time former cantor and main teacher Paul Nugel (* July 2, 1856, † October 1, 1916) is also well preserved and embedded in green bushes.

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Maiberg cemetery

The Maiberger Friedhof is near number 19.

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Merzdorf cemetery

Coming from Sandow, towards the east, you cross the railway line to Frankfurt / Oder and after a while you come to a fenced area on the right-hand side, which consists of pine forest, some noble trees planted in earlier times and a lot of wild growth. Long-established residents call the area the “Old Russian Cemetery” because the former Merzdorf prisoner-of-war camp with its cemetery was located here. On a square surrounded by thorn bushes stands a concreted cross with an Italian inscription, some of which is still legible. Rows of graves have been laid out on both sides of the cross. A cracked old marble tablet lying here suggests that British soldiers were buried here. Until the end of April 1920, 563 prisoners of war were buried in this cemetery, most of them belonging to the Kingdom of England and its colonies. B. Italy, France and Russia. Around 400 prisoners of war fell victim to a typhus that broke out in Cottbus in 1914/1915. These were housed in the Merzdorf camp under the hygienic conditions possible at the time and were also buried here. After 1920 the city left the cemetery to a large extent to decay. There is a war memorial on the left side of the Merzdorf cemetery. In 1934 this war memorial was erected in memory of the victims of the two world wars. It shows a plow in the field, a spade and a setting sun. There are also 3 memorial plaques attached. The top one is still the original board and was used again during the reconstruction in 2009, the other two have been reproduced.

During the reconstruction in 2009, old documents from Merzdorf and inflation banknotes were found in a cavity - this had formed inside the monument due to moisture. Together with a current edition of the "Lausitzer Rundschau" and current coins, these documents were walled up again.

The official inauguration of the restored war memorial took place on November 15, 2009, the day of national mourning.

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Merzdorf war cemetery

The war cemetery is located in the Merzdorf industrial area, hidden behind property no. 23 on the “Am Gleis” street.

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Saspow cemetery

The Saspower cemetery with a war cemetery and fire brigade memorial is located on Saspower Hauptstraße.

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Schlichow cemetery

The Schlichow cemetery with war cemetery is located on Oskar-Trautmann-Straße.

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Sielow cemetery

The Sielow cemetery with the war cemetery is located between Gulbener Weg and the street “Zur Spreeaue”.

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Skadow Cemetery

The Skadower Friedhof is located in the street “Hinter den Gärten”, at the corner of Skadower Schulstraße.

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Willmersdorf cemetery

The Willmersdorfer Friedhof with war cemetery is located on Friedhofsweg.

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Former cemeteries and churchyards

Old Branitz village cemetery

The cemetery is located in the park in front of the Branitzer Park near the environmental center. This cemetery was only rediscovered in October 2012 while work was being carried out in the park. The trapezoidal cemetery was marked with simple wooden stakes and consists only of a number of slight bumps. However, it is a historical place, because on May 13, 1854, Countess Lucie von Pückler-Muskau was the last Branitzer to be buried in a peat asphalt crypt at her own request, although the cemetery was abandoned in 1850. In 1884 her remains were reburied in the lake pyramid in Branitzer Park. The cemetery was leveled and reforested. After that he was forgotten. Despite archaeological investigations, Lucie's former crypt remained undiscovered as it was filled with earth after it was moved to another bed. Her grave cross today stands on a boulder on the gravestone island in Branitzer Park.

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Old Jewish Cemetery

The old Jewish cemetery

The old Jewish cemetery is in the street of the youth next to the building of the Lausitzer Rundschau . First of all, the dead of the Jewish community were buried in the Friedland cemetery. In 1814 the government issued a ban on transporting the dead over long distances. Thus it was no longer possible to bring the deceased to Friedland. In 1817 the first Jewish cemetery, the "Old Jewish Cemetery", was laid out on Dresdner Strasse (now the Strasse der Jugend). In 1861 a piece of land adjacent to the south was bought and a celebration hall was built on it. After all graves in the cemetery were occupied in 1919, the new Jewish cemetery was set up in the city's main cemetery (south cemetery) . The cemetery was devastated in the November pogrom in 1938 and partially destroyed in the bombing raid on February 15, 1945. Around 1950 the cemetery was cleared at the request of the city gardening authority and converted into a park with a memorial stone. However, the Jewish burial traditions were ignored and valuable documents were removed. Part of the old enclosing walls was preserved.

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The then Lord Mayor of Cottbus Dreifert granted Justice Council Abraham Hammerschmidt the exemption to bury his wife Berta Hammerschmidt in November 1916 south of the former municipal southern cemetery. The approximately 100 m² large forest parcel was fenced in and a shell limestone monument, which is still clearly visible today, was erected on it. In the following years - beginning in 1917/1918 - the new Jewish cemetery was built around this grave site. In addition to other important graves, there is also a memorial inscription for the members of the Hammerschmidt family murdered during the Nazi era.

Former central cemetery

Cemetery wall of the former central cemetery

The former central cemetery is located in the Straße der Jugend on the site of the former barrack town. After the old city cemetery in front of the Spremberger Tor in the area of ​​Schwan and Roßstraße was closed in 1834, the Cottbusers needed a new burial site. The old central cemetery in the area of ​​today's Straße der Jugend was inaugurated on November 22, 1835 and used for burials until 1870. In 1898 the cemetery was finally closed. In 1841 the master builder Friedrich Wilhelm Kahle was commissioned to build a morgue. It was one of his most important structures and was very reminiscent of Schinkel's designs . The cemetery chapel was converted into a memorial hall for the victims of the World War and demolished in 1963. Between 1947 and 1950 the cemetery area was used as an allotment garden. When the districts were founded in the GDR in 1952 , Cottbus as a district town quickly needed an administrative seat and so the barracks town came into being, which was largely demolished in 1990/91. The last two barracks disappeared in 1994 after a fire. The only contemporary witness today is the cemetery wall. In the course of the urban redevelopment, the development plan for the Ostrow district includes the area for residential development.

Old Kiekebusch cemetery

The old Kiekebusch cemetery is on Spreestrasse. It was built on the edge of the village, was enclosed by houses due to the steady influx of population and the resulting expansion of the community and could no longer be expanded. Therefore it was closed and a new cemetery opened on Neue Friedhofstrasse. Today it is an open green square with a memorial stone for the victims of the First and Second World Wars and some still preserved grave sites.

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Churchyard of the parish church St. Nikolai (upper church)

As was customary in the early days, the deceased were buried in church yards directly at the churches. For centuries the upper church surrounded such a cemetery. In 1729 its walls were torn down because they obstructed the parade of the guard. The tombstones were removed and the square paved. In 1794 the burial place was finally given up.

Churchyard of the castle church

The church, built by the Huguenots in 1714, was surrounded by a walled cemetery that was leveled in 1729.

Churchyard of the Franciscan Monastery Church (Wendish Church)

It is not known when the cemetery was abandoned. Parts of the cemetery wall existed in the area of ​​the current monastery square until 1729.

Cemetery in front of the Spremberger Tor

As in 1514, the plague afflicts the city again. A cemetery was laid out in front of Spremberger Tor around 1521 to bury the dead and it was managed until 1834. Today the terrain is completely built up.

East cemetery

The former Ostfriedhof was located between Hüfnerstrasse and Warschauer Strasse in the Sandow district . The Ostfriedhof was created in 1888 as Sandower Friedhof. It was not renamed Ostfriedhof until the village was incorporated in 1904. The last burial took place in 1946. The chapel was destroyed by the air raid on February 15, 1945 and demolished in 1956. The bell of the chapel found its place in the south cemetery as early as 1948. The tombs were cleared away, only an obelisk made of Swedish granite remained. Today there is a small park at this point.

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Old Sandower Cemetery

The old Sandower cemetery was on Muskauer Platz. It was not until 2008 that construction workers discovered the forgotten cemetery during excavation work. When a hospital was built in 1827, this cemetery was laid out and was managed until 1887. In 1907 it was finally closed.

Hereditary funeral in Branitzer Park

The hereditary burial site consists of a cross on a black base with inscriptions on two sides. Eight stone crosses mark the last resting places half lying.

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Sea pyramid in Branitzer Park

A special kind of burial place is the lake pyramid in Branitzer Park. It is the final resting place of Prince Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pückler-Muskau and his wife Lucie von Hardenberg , who were reburied in the tumulus from the old Branitz village cemetery in 1884.

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literature

• Irmgard Ackermann, Marcus Cante, Antje Mues: Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany, Monuments in Brandenburg, Volume 2.1, City of Cottbus Part 1: Old Town, Mühleninsel, Neustadt and Ostrow, inner Spremberger suburb, "City Promenade", western urban expansion, historical Brunschwig. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2001, ISBN 3-88462-176-9 .

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ The Südfriedhof celebration hall reopened after a year of construction. In: cottbus.de. April 21, 2009. Retrieved June 17, 2016 . 
3. ^ Resting place for "star children": Carl-Thiem-Klinikum initiated a dignified mourning place ( memento of March 22, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ), press release of the Carl-Thiem-Klinikum , September 19, 2011.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Cottbus (district-free city, Brandenburg): Jewish cemeteries. In: alemannia-judaica.de. Retrieved June 27, 2016 . 
5. ^ Jewish community Cottbus. In: juden.de. Retrieved June 27, 2016 . 
6. ^ Jewish places in Cottbus. Jewish Community Cottbus , accessed on June 17, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Cottbus - North Cemetery. In: friedhof-ansichten.de. Retrieved June 17, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Alt-Schmellwitz ( Memento from March 22, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ), Bürgererverein eV Schmellwitz.
9. ↑ A chronicler with a keen sense for detail , in: Der Märkische Bote , May 24, 2008 ( Memento from April 4, 2009 in the web archive archive.today ).
10. ^ Memorial plaque for Christian Schwela. In: cottbus.de. December 1, 2009, accessed June 17, 2016 . 
11. ^ Association history. Turnverein Cottbus 1861 eV, accessed on June 17, 2016 . 
12. ↑ The Markische Bote from 23./24. November 1991.
13. ↑ Lausitzer Rundschau from August 10, 1991 / city archive
14. ↑ Peggy Kompalla: Fresh breath for the Branitzer Park. In: Lausitzer Rundschau. October 23, 2012, accessed June 17, 2016 . 
15. ↑ Old Jewish cemetery. In: cottbus.de. Retrieved June 17, 2016 . 
16. ↑ Pictures from old Cottbus , in: Der Märkische Bote , October 14, 2006 ( Memento from August 13, 2007 in the web archive archive.today ).
17. ^ Urban redevelopment Cottbus - Part 1: Brownfields. In: opencaching.it. Retrieved June 17, 2016 . 
18. ↑ 1994 Dark billows of smoke over the city of Cottbus - Biggest barrack city fire in Cottbus. Cottbus volunteer fire department, Sandow local fire department, accessed on June 17, 2016 . 
19. ↑ The old barracks town in Cottbus is to become living space. In: Lausitzer Rundschau. July 4, 2011, accessed June 17, 2016 . 
20. ↑ Cottbuser buried here until 1834 / New city cemetery is inaugurated in 1835 , in: Der Märkische Bote , May 16, 2009 ( Memento from April 4, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ).
21. ^ Adelheid Floß: Skeletons found on Sandower construction site. (No longer available online.) In: Lausitzer Rundschau. May 8, 2008, archived from the original on June 17, 2016 ; Retrieved June 17, 2016 . 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.  

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Commons : Cemeteries in Cottbus  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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• Personal conversation with Mr. H. Lehmann, director of the district museum "Alte Dorfschule" Gallinchen on August 28, 2013.
• Cottbus views. May 12, 1994 and Lausitzer Rundschau. August 29, 2009.
• Cottbus home calendar. 2011.
• Hannelore Ulrich, Bozena Vogt: Döbbrick-Maiberg, a Sorbian village in Lower Lusatia and its history. Cottbus, 2008. (City Archives)
• Wolfgang Bernhardt: History of the community Kahren. Self-published, 1999.
• Personal conversation with Ms. Behrendt and Mr. W. Zach from Madlow on October 2, 2013.