North Cemetery (Hall)
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The north cemetery in Halle (Saale) was built in 1850 as the second municipal cemetery and is located in today's Am Wasserturm / Thaerviertel between Volkmannstrasse and Hordorfer Strasse in the north-west of the city center.
The cemetery is surrounded by a fence made of porphyry - dry stone surrounded. It delimits an approx. 14 hectare cemetery area on which there are around 12,000 grave sites. On the site there is a late Classicist funeral hall built between 1875 and 1876 on the plan of a Latin cross . In the center of the cemetery there are memorials for those who fell in the German War of 1866 and the Franco-German War of 1870/71 . More than 1,000 trees characterize the cemetery, including rarer ones such as Japanese larches , olive willows and ginkgo trees .
The sculptor Hans Dammann created the tomb for the family crypt of the Bethcke family, where the banker Ludwig Bethcke (1829–1911) rests as an honorary citizen of the city.
Memorial to those who fell in the war of 1870/71
Memorial to those who fell in the 1866 war
Inscription on the memorial to the fallen in the war of 1866
Grave site of Lars Bense (1973–1981), victim of the crossword puzzle
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Graves of famous personalities
- Lars Bense (1973–1981), victim of the infamous crossword puzzle murder
- Wilhelm Dittenberger (1840–1906), classical philologist and epigraphist
- Arthur Epperlein (1919–1995), author and cartoonist
- Karl Freytag (1831–1908), zoo technician and agricultural scientist
- Albert Giese (1851–1944), architect (tomb abandoned)
- Gerhard Goebel (1839–1907), cathedral preacher and consistorial councilor
- Julius Kühn (1825–1910), agricultural scientist
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Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 33.6 ″ N , 11 ° 59 ′ 4.3 ″ E