Ostfriedhof (Leipzig)

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Cemetery chapel of the Ostfriedhof in summer 2020

The Ostfriedhof Leipzig is the second largest municipal cemetery in the city. The park cemetery in the school of Peter Joseph Lenné has existed since 1879 and has 38,000 grave sites on around 20 hectares. The builder of the chapel (1902) was the Leipzig city architect Otto Wilhelm Scharenberg . Numerous memorial sites on the site commemorate war crimes and crimes against humanity during National Socialism .

history

The cemetery was initially a village cemetery for Reudnitz and later Anger-Crottendorf . Until 1890 there was the name Trinitatis-Friedhof . During the Second World War, Allied air raids caused destruction; the population then planted beds for potatoes and vegetables. In 1950 the chapel got a glockenspiel made of Meissen porcelain , developed by Emil Paul Börner . The bells are 19.8 to 31.0 cm in diameter. They can be heard daily at 9 a.m., 12 p.m., 3 p.m. and 6 p.m.

There has been a Muslim grave field since 1997 . Tree burials have been possible at the Ostfriedhof since 2015 .

Memorials

Since the middle of the 20th century, different places of warning and remembrance have been created in the cemetery:

  • Memorial to Polish War Victims

  • Soviet memorial

  • Leipzig Euthanasia Victims Memorial

  • Memorial site for a massacre committed in 1945

  • Soviet grove of honor in honor and memory of the fallen Soviet soldiers in World War II .
  • Memorial site for Nazi forced laborers (including at HASAG )
  • Memorial for deserters of the Wehrmacht and their fate
  • Italian memorial to fallen Italian soldiers in World War II
  • Polish memorial for fallen Polish soldiers in World War II
  • Memorial for 70 adults and children who were victims of euthanasia in Leipzig during National Socialism (inaugurated on May 8, 2008)

Personalities

Although most of the famous people of Leipzig are buried in the south cemetery, some important Leipzig personalities rest in the east cemetery.

  • Hermann Eduard Förster (1861–1933), owner of the Förster piano factory
  • Max Borsdorff (1897–1917), printer and co-founder of the Leipzig Spartakusbund
  • Peter Degner (1954–2020), event manager, inventor and organizer of the annual Classic Open concert series (1994–2017) on Leipzig's market square

Directions

There are entrances from Zweinaundorfer Straße in the north, from Sulzbacher Straße in the east and from Oststraße in the south. The S3 line of the S-Bahn Central Germany serves the Leipzig Anger-Crottendorf stop. Buses 72 and 73 go to the Ostfriedhof stop and those of line 60 to the Lipsiusstraße stop.

Literature and source

  • Mammut-Verlag (ed.): Der Friedhofswegweiser. 5th edition, Leipzig undated, pp. 34-39.

Web links

Commons : Ostfriedhof (Leipzig)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PM: Memorial for Leipzig euthanasia victims. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: Disabled Association Leipzig eV Saxony Sunday, April 27, 2008, p. 1 , accessed on August 17, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Peter Degner's funeral at the East Cemetery in Leipzig. Leipziger Volkszeitung, February 3, 2020, accessed on August 17, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Classic Open Leipzig. Peter Degner Foundation, accessed on August 17, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 48 ″  N , 12 ° 25 ′ 19 ″  E