New Catholic Cemetery (Dresden)
The New Catholic Cemetery (also Outer Catholic Cemetery) is the second Catholic cemetery in Dresden . The facility at Bremer Strasse 20 in Dresden's Friedrichstadt district is a listed building in its entirety.
history
The first Catholic cemetery in Dresden, after its founding in 1724, was last expanded to its present size in 1824. Since the only Catholic cemetery in the city was again too small 50 years later, it was decided to create a new burial place for the city's Catholics. As the Old Catholic Cemetery is not far from the Inner Matthew Cemetery , the Outer Catholic Cemetery was also laid out in 1875 directly next to the Outer Matthew Cemetery, which was laid out in 1851 . All four cemeteries are in the Friedrichstadt district of Dresden.
The two-story parentation hall , the guard's apartment and the administration building were built in 1875 according to plans by the architect Carl Adolph Canzler . Another cemetery hall with a flat hipped roof was built around 1910. The interior of the parentation hall was renovated in 1977. The cemetery area was originally designed as an elongated rectangle with symmetrical grave fields. In 1915 the cemetery was expanded to the west; in the east the Outer Matthew Cemetery followed.
Gravesites
Graves of well-known personalities and funerary art
The most famous person who found their final resting place in the New Catholic Cemetery is the painter Ludwig Richter . His first tombstone, which was a tall, black cross, was replaced in 1984 by a stele on which a crucifix is placed in a small house.
The wall grave of Nikolaus Graf von Seebach is adorned with a bright cross on a base. The split cross on the grave of Pastor Wolfgang Luckhaupt was created by the artist Friedrich Press . The grave of Sioux and Sarrasani circus artist Edward Two-Two (1851–1914) shows a simple stele with grave inscription.
The Nazareth sisters of St. Francis of the monastery in Dresden-Goppeln own several communal graves in the old and in the new part of the cemetery. The communal grave of the Gray Sisters of Saint Elisabeth of the St. Joseph-Stift in Dresden is located in the northeast part of the cemetery.
The burial place of the Sisters of the Congregation of St. Charles Borromeo consists of several horizontal tombstones and is located on the dividing wall between the new and the old part of the cemetery.
Other personalities who are buried in the cemetery:
- Friedrich Eisenkolb (born January 5, 1901 - † September 29, 1967)
- Alexander Salvator Freiherr von Pereira (born April 9, 1850 - † October 6, 1917)
- Miguel de Cárdenas y Penalver (born April 10, 1814 in Havana, † November 2, 1883 in Dresden)
Memorials
There are various memorials for the victims of war and tyranny at the New Catholic Cemetery.
A bordered memorial commemorates victims of fascism from 14 nations around the world. A memorial stone commemorates 128 victims of fascism from Czechoslovakia. A third memorial commemorates the fallen of the First and Second World War, as well as victims of National Socialist violence and a total of 395 dead people buried here in the air raids on Dresden . Those who were executed by the National Socialists in the courtyard of the prison on Münchner Platz are also remembered. They include the five Polish martyrs Czesław Jóźwiak (* 1919), Edward Kaźmierski (* 1919), Jarogniew Wojciechowski (* 1922), Franciszek Kęsy (* 1920) and Eduard Klinik (* 1919). You were murdered in Dresden on August 24, 1942. In 1999 they were beatified by Pope John Paul II . Another memorial concerns the twelve members of the resistance group "Black Legion" ( Polish Home Army ) from Gostyń in Poland. June 1942.
literature
- Volker Helas : Monuments in Saxony. City of Dresden: Friedrichstadt. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1994, ISBN 3-364-00280-0 , pp. 53–60.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Holger Hase and Wolfgang Scheder: Dresden war graves . Edited by Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge . Dresden 2019. p. 29
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '43.2 " N , 13 ° 42' 1.4" E