Nordfriedhof (Leipzig)
The north cemetery is one of the municipal cemeteries operated by the city of Leipzig . It is located at Berliner Straße 125–127 in the Eutritzsch district between Hamburger Straße, Theresienstraße and Maximilianallee, immediately adjacent to the smaller Old Israelite Cemetery.
The north cemetery was opened on May 24, 1881. Compared to the largest facility in the city, the 78 hectare south cemetery , the north cemetery with only 7.3 hectares covers less than a tenth of this area. In terms of design and dendrology, it still has a great variety, including a wetland biotope created after 2000 .
The buildings in the cemetery date from the years 1905 to 1910. Otto Brückwald built a complex with wooden arcades based on the model of Italian buildings, connecting the chapel, mortuary and administration. The chapel was destroyed in the air raids on December 4, 1943 . To the left of the entrance is the former civil servants' residence, also designed by Brückwald. Otto Wittenberg designed the facilities in the traditional style with regular grave fields in strict symmetry. There were no decorative areas within the Nordfriedhof, only in front of the main entrance, which was offset inward on Berliner Strasse, were colorfully planted decorative borders.
Two honorary citizens of the city of Leipzig found their final resting place in the north cemetery , the senior Reich attorney Hermann Tessendorf and the President of the Reich Court, Rudolf Freiherr von Seckendorff . Other important personalities who have their gravesite here are Ernst Arthur Seemann, the founder of the EA Seemann publishing house , the bookseller Karl Tauchnitz , the urologist Arthur Kollmann and Ernst Pinkert , the founder of the Leipzig Zoo .
One of the oldest memorials of the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig is located in the north cemetery . After a mass grave of those who died in the Battle of Nations was found on Eutritzscher Strasse in 1892, the Society for the History of Leipzig commissioned the architect Franz Drechsler to design a tomb. The mark, inaugurated on October 18, 1899, opposite the former entrance to Theresienstraße, consists of a boulder with the inscription "Friend and enemy united in death." And a smaller pillow stone that marks the grave area behind the memorial stone.
literature
- The cemetery signpost. On the other side and beyond. City of Leipzig. Mammut-Verlag, Leipzig 2005, pp. 32-39
Web links
- City of Leipzig, Office for Urban Green and Water: Nordfriedhof
Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 42.4 " N , 12 ° 23 ′ 46.6" E