Nordfriedhof (Munich)

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Funeral hall (center), morgue (left) ⊙
General view of the cemetery building (morgue) against the burial ground (1901)

The North cemetery with 34,000 grave sites one of the major cemeteries in the city of Munich . It is located on Ungererstraße in the Schwabing-Freimann district . The cemetery was established in 1884 by the then Schwabing community . The cemetery should not be confused with the Old North Cemetery in Munich, which was created only a short time before in what was then Munich's urban area. There is also a station of the Underground Munich named North Cemetery , which is why the surrounding area by the population Nordfriedhof is called.

The cemetery has a funeral hall , a mortuary and a wall enclosure, which were designed between 1896 and 1899 by the city building officer Hans Grässel . In 1962 an urn hall N by the architect Eugen Jacoby was added.

The funeral hall is described in Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice , albeit slightly changed. The sight triggers a premonition of death in the protagonist. When, in this mood, he saw a “stranger” in travel clothes in front of the hall's portal, he felt “wanderlust”, “truly appearing as a seizure and passionate, even to the point of illusion”.

Reconstruction of the sphinxes and the west facade

In front of the entrance to the funeral hall there were two sphinxes , which Thomas Mann described as "apocalyptic animals" at the beginning of his novella Death in Venice . In November 2018, at the request of the CSU City Councilor Ulrike Grimm, the city ​​council decided to reconstruct the two sculptures and to put them back on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the cemetery administration in 2019. The replica of the first Sphinx was carried out by the State Guild Association of Stonemasons in cooperation with the Master School for Stonemasons in Munich.

A mass grave for 2099 victims of the bombing war was redesigned as a grove of honor for air war victims . The memorial comes from Hans Wimmer .

In December 2018, the Free Voters also called for the reliefs and inscriptions on the facade and the paintings in the dome to be restored. The literary scholar Dirk Heisserer described the reconstruction project as “a religious and cultural-historical project of importance that can hardly be overestimated”. In June 2019, the city administration announced the reconstruction of the west facade.

On July 11, 2019, the first of the two reconstructed sphinxes was presented to the public. The original-sized reconstruction draft was made by the Munich stone sculptor Barbara Oppenrieder , while the stone sculptor and stone restorer Wolfgang Gottschalk was responsible for the execution. In addition to Oppenrieder and Gottschalk, the execution of the work was primarily the responsibility of the master students of the technical school for stone technology / master school for the stonemasonry and stone carving trade.

According to the city administration, the second Sphinx is to be reconstructed from 2020 for 43,000 euros.

See also

  • Entrance to the funeral hall with reconstructed sphinxes

  • Funeral hall to the east, facing the cemetery; Art Nouveau frescoes , inspired by Byzantine and early Christianity

  • Nordfriedhof Muenchen-2.jpg

  • Grieving for Tomb Julius Braeutigam, † 1905, electroforming by sculptor Fidel Binz , WMF , Geislingen

literature

  • Lioba Betten - Thomas Multhaup: Die Münchner Friedhöfe - Guide to Places of Remembrance , MünchenVerlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-7630-4056-8 , pp. 38–45
  • Matthias Gretzschel : Historic cemeteries in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The travel dictionary. Callwey, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7667-1233-0 .
  • Erich Scheibmayr : Last home. Personalities in Munich cemeteries 1784–1984 . First edition. Edition Scheibmayr, Munich 1985. 
    Continued with:
    Who? When? Where? Personalities in Munich cemeteries . (Part 1/3, supplement to the basic work and update until 1989). Edition Scheibmayr, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-9802211-1-3 ,
    Who? When? Where? Personalities in Munich cemeteries . (Part 2/3, supplement to the basic work and update to 1996). Edition Scheibmayr, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-9802211-3-X ,
    Who? When? Where? Personalities in Munich cemeteries . (Part 3/3, supplement to the basic work and update until 2002). Edition Scheibmayr, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-9802211-4-8 .

Web links

Commons : Nordfriedhof (Munich)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ G (ustav) A (dolf) Horst:  The new cemetery facilities in Munich. In:  Allgemeine Bauzeitung , year 1901, (LXVI. Year), pp. 34–37. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / abz
  2. ^ [1] Ulrike Grimm
  3. ↑ Thomas Mann's “apocalyptic animals” are back
  4. ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/schwabing-pfusch-und-liederlichkeit-1.4197900
  5. ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/schwabing-nun- geht-es-um-die-ganze-fassade- 1.4236214
  6. ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/muenchen-nordfriedhof-restruktion-fassade-1.4491603
  7. ^ [2] Master School of Stone Sculptors Munich
  8. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Another fabulous being. Retrieved October 27, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Permalink German National Library .

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 30 ″  N , 11 ° 36 ′ 10 ″  E