North Cemetery (Jena)
The North cemetery with an area of 22 hectares with more than 9,000 tombs of the largest cemetery Jenas .
Location and history
The north cemetery is located north of the city center and has existed as a municipal cemetery since 1884. Large parts of the garden are now under monument protection. The first burial took place in 1889, the first cremation in 1898.
The celebration hall, which is still in use, was designed in 1887 by the architect Karl Timler and built together with the builder Theodor Hartmann. The building, built in the neoclassical style as a clinker building with limestone and columns , is equipped with an organ , among other things .
The first crematorium was built in 1897 , at that time it was only the fifth in Germany. On May 3, 2016, a new building was opened nearby, as the old facility could not be adequately adapted to current technical requirements and the burial culture that has changed over time . In addition, the working conditions for the staff in the new crematorium have been significantly improved. The old premises are now used for catering.
There are around 9,050 graves in the north cemetery (as of 2013), of which:
- 25 graves of honorary citizens,
- 59 graves worthy of protection
- 635 graves of victims of war and violence from different nations
Graves of famous people
Numerous well-known personalities of the 19th and 20th centuries from science, economy, politics, art and culture found their final resting place in Jena North Cemetery.
- Ernst Abbe - physicist, statistician, optician, entrepreneur and social reformer, 1840–1905
- Carl Blomeyer - civil servant, 1844-1910
- Hans Boegehold - mathematician and optician, 1876–1965
- Walter Brednow - internist, 1896–1976
- Karl von Brüger - lawyer, 1822–1905
- Siegfried Czapski - physicist, 1861–1907
- Berthold Delbrück - linguist, 1842–1922
- Otto Devrient - actor and playwright, 1838–1894
- Eugen Diederichs - publisher, 1867–1930
- Matthias Domaschk - civil rights activist and Stasi victim, 1957–1981
- Karl-Heinz Ducke - Catholic clergyman, moral theologian and civil rights activist, 1941–2011
- Gustav Fischer - bookseller and publisher, 1845–1910
- August Gärtner - physician and microbiologist, 1848–1934
- Georg Goetz - Classical philologist, 1849–1932
- Karl Griewank - historian, 1900–1953
- Karl Heussi - Protestant church historian, 1877–1961
- Jussuf Ibrahim - pediatrician, 1877–1953
- Hanna Jursch - theologian and university teacher, 1902–1972
- Wilhelm Kämmerer - computer scientist and computer pioneer, 1905–1994
- Fritz Körner - painter and glass designer, 1888–1955
- Curt Letsche - writer, 1912-2010
- Otto Liebmann - philosopher, 1840–1912
- Theodor Lockemann - librarian, 1885–1945
- Tilo Medek - composer and music publisher, 1940–2006
- Ernst Naumann - organist, composer and conductor, 1832–1910
- Hermann Pistor - mathematician and physicist, 1875–1951
- Magnus Poser - communist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime, 1907–1944
- Carl Prüssing - chemist and manager in the cement industry, 1859–1912
- Wilhelm Rein - educator, 1847–1929
- Moritz von Rohr - optician, 1868–1940
- Peter Schäfer - historian, 1931–2016
- Friedrich Schomerus - manager and social politician, 1876–1963
- Otto Schott - chemist and glass technician, 1851–1935
- Bernhard Sigmund Schultze - gynecologist and obstetrician, 1827–1919
- Friedrich Slotty - Indo-Europeanist, 1881–1963
- Ernst Stahl - botanist, 1848–1919
- Max Steenbeck - physicist, 1904–1981
- Grete Unrein - politician, 1872–1945
- Walter Augustin Villiger - astronomer and engineer, 1872–1938
- Helene Voigt-Diederichs - writer, 1875–1961
- Otto Wagner - politician, 1877–1962
- Ernst Wandersleb - physicist, photographer, balloonist, mountaineer and philanthropist, 1879–1963
- Lothar Zitzmann - painter, 1924–1977
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Nordfriedhof on ksj.de
- ^ Andreas Wentzel, Michael Baumgarten: New crematorium: Modern culture of burial in Jena. Retrieved December 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Overview of the honorary graves in the north cemetery (PDF; 64 kB)
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 34.8 " N , 11 ° 35 ′ 20.4" E