Neustädter Friedhof (Erlangen)

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The funeral hall of the Neustädter Friedhof in Erlangen
Neustädter Friedhof as Der Teutsch Gottesacker on an engraving from 1721
Neustädter Friedhof (left) around 1840

The Neustädter Friedhof is a cemetery in the Middle Franconian city ​​of Erlangen . It is owned by the Evangelical Lutheran Neustadt parish .

history

After the Lutheran congregation of Erlanger Neustadt, founded in 1686, was first parished into the old town , the people of Neustadt had to bury their dead in the old town cemetery . A separate churchyard, where Catholics and members of the free community also found their final resting place before the opening of the central cemetery , was only created by a margravial decree of January 22, 1703 and was laid out in the same year on Äußere Brucker Straße . In a source from 1721 he is referred to as Der Teutsch Gottesacker . The cemetery had to be expanded for the first time as early as 1717. Further roundings took place in 1742, 1783 and 1838; this created space for a total of 960 graves . The last expansion so far took place in the years 1859 to 1861, when the so-called "valley" between the Neustädter Friedhof and the Reformed Friedhof was filled.

The wall erected in 1717 facing Äußere Brucker Straße was renewed in 1787/88 and expanded on three sides. In 1775 the university crypt was moved from the Sophienkirche to the Neustädter Friedhof. After 36 adults and 16 children had found their final resting place here by 1803, the number of burials fell rapidly. In 1861 the half-timbered house built above the crypt was demolished and a lawn was planted instead . In 1863 a plaque with the names of those buried in the crypt was placed on the adjacent wall of the cemetery . The Neustädter Friedhofskirche was built on the cemetery area between 1783 and 1789, and the funeral hall in 1854/55 .

description

Exterior view of the Neustädter Friedhofskirche from the east

The approximately 12,000 square meter Neustädter Friedhof is located near the Erlangen train station between the Nuremberg – Bamberg railway in the east and the Frankenschnellweg in the west. It has a north-south extension of around 130 meters and in an east-west direction a width of around 90 meters. The area is covered with some chestnuts , lime trees and old oaks .

At the northeast corner is the Neustädter Friedhofskirche (Äußere Brucker Straße 24), a late Baroque hall building made of sandstone blocks with a hipped roof . This was built between 1783 and 1789, the roof turret with a curved helmet was not put on until 1827. To the west of the cemetery church there is now a memorial for the soldiers who fell in World War II .

At the opposite corner of the cemetery is the funeral hall (Äußere Brucker Straße 26), a single-storey sandstone building with arched window and door openings, a flat hipped roof and a pointed roof turret, the vestibule of which was enlarged in 1910. In this area the canopy rests on four square pillars. In addition to the funeral hall, a single-storey house with a gable roof was built in 1890/91 .

There are also two ossuaries in the cemetery, which are arched sandstone buildings. The northern one is decorated with vase crowns and marked with the year "1816", the southern one is marked "1844" and today serves as the resting place of the Consistorial President Krause.

In the Neustädter Friedhof there are the graves of many well-known Erlangen families and university professors , whose mostly quite simple tombs are mostly made of sandstone and are therefore mostly heavily weathered today. Particularly noteworthy are the graves for Ernst († 1831) and Luise († 1833), the children of the poet Friedrich Rückert , the Swedish poet Per Ulrik Kernell († 1824), the theologians Friedrich von Ammon († 1855) and Gerhard von Zezschwitz ( † 1886), the geologist Karl Georg von Raumer († 1865) and the industrialists Max Gebbert († 1907) and Emil Kränzlein († 1936). There are also many other interesting tombs from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries in the cemetery.

literature

Web links

Commons : Neustädter Friedhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Renate Wünschmann: Neustädter Friedhof. In: Erlanger Stadtlexikon.
  2. ^ Andreas Jakob: University crypt . In: Erlanger Stadtlexikon.
  3. ↑ a b c List of monuments for Erlangen (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation

Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 37.9 ″  N , 11 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E