Ostfriedhof Magdeburg
The Ostfriedhof Magdeburg is a municipal cemetery of the city of Magdeburg .
location
The cemetery covers an area of 6.43 hectares and is located in the east of Magdeburg in the Cracau district at Mühlweg 11 . The Mühlweg runs to the south, Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse a little further to the west, and Pfeifferstrasse to the east. There is access to the cemetery from each of the streets.
history
In 1880 the Cracau mayor Brandt and the lay judges Riecke and Goetze negotiated the construction of a new cemetery on the mill field near Cracau. A planned installation on the parish farms on the Krock had turned out to be irrelevant through a sanitary report. Until 1661 the burials of the congregation took place on the Petersilienberg and then in the churchyard next to the Cracauer Sankt-Briccius-Kirche . Ultimately, the current cemetery area was acquired through an exchange with the Kossaten Lüttgemann . The inauguration of the cemetery took place in 1882.
A dispute then arose over the continuation of hereditary family graves that existed in the churchyard. Superintendent Gustav Adolf Pfeiffer took the view that the owners of the hereditary burials were entitled to a place in the new cemetery. In 1892 there was a legal dispute with the master shoemaker Herbst, who wanted to have his father buried in the family's hereditary funeral in the churchyard, which had been bought in 1881. The community saw the churchyard, where no funerals had taken place for nine years, but as a closed cemetery. Ultimately, Herbst was able to prevail. His father's corpse had to be moved from the new cemetery to the churchyard at the expense of the community for 85.50 marks.
In 1908 the cemetery chapel of the East Cemetery in Magdeburg was built by a foundation from the master mason Hermann Wilke .
Funerals of well-known personalities
On December 11, 1902, Superintendent and founder of the Pfeiffer Foundations Gustav Adolf Pfeiffer was buried in the cemetery around 1.30 p.m. Pastor Fischer from Dahlenwarsleben spoke at the funeral . The resting place of Gustav Adolf Pfeiffer is now a listed building . In 1954, the medical officer Friedrich Lange was buried in the cemetery. He was the first practicing doctor in Cracau.
literature
- Hans-Joachim Krenzke, Magdeburg Cemeteries and Burial Places , State Capital Magdeburg 1998, page 116 ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Willy Otto Riecke, Chronicle Prester-Cracau , self-published, Magdeburg 1932, page 47 f.
- ↑ Willy Otto Riecke, Chronicle Prester-Cracau , self-published, Magdeburg 1932, page 48
Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 18.8 " N , 11 ° 39 ′ 57.6" E