Petrifriedhof (Braunschweig)

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View of the Petrifriedhof with the graves of Wilhelm Brackes and Hermann Günther
Gravestone of Konrad Koch (father)
Gravestone Wilhelm Brackes

The Petrifriedhof in the western ring area in Braunschweig is a historical cemetery that was laid out in 1757. Today it serves as a public park . The complex, which is protected as an architectural monument , has numerous tombstones and is the final resting place of well-known personalities. Including the honorary grave of the politician Wilhelm Bracke (1842–1880). The former cemetery of the Evangelical Lutheran Petri community is surrounded by a fence and is located between Goslarscher Straße and Alerdsweg. The entrance is on Alerdsweg.

history

The Petrifriedhof is one of several cemeteries that were laid out along Goslarschen Strasse. This also includes the Martinifriedhof . The Goslarsche Straße is an old street that already existed in the Middle Ages and was built to the west and outside of the Braunschweig city fortifications in a north-south direction. It connected the two trade routes that led to Celle and Kassel and Frankfurt. It is also in close proximity to the medieval churches in the old town of Braunschweig, which began to move their cemeteries from the city center in front of the city gates in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The members of the St. Petri community were once buried directly at the Petrikirche. At times the community also used the cemetery of the Kreuzkloster . The area of ​​the Petrifriedhof has been owned by the Petrikirche since 1638. The approximately 3 acre property was in the corridor Langehöfen No. 25. In 1757, the new cemetery of the Petrikirche was laid out on half an acre. In 1807 there was an extension. In 1856 the community acquired another plot of land for expansion, which was occupied in two sections: the first part in 1856 and the second part in 1871. In 1856 the plane tree avenue was laid out. In 1880 the social democrat Wilhelm Bracke was buried here, and almost 40,000 people are said to have attended his funeral.

With the inauguration of the Braunschweiger Zentralfriedhof (today's main cemetery ) on October 1st, 1887, the old decentralized cemeteries were no longer needed and were kept for further burials. The last burial in the Petri cemetery took place shortly before.

In January 1957, construction began on a parish hall for the First Church of Christ in part of the Petri cemetery. The cemetery is owned by the parish of St. Petri. In 1977 a usage contract was signed between the parish and the city of Braunschweig. On June 7, 1977, the Petrifriedhof was released as a park.

From 1998 to 2001 the monument was renovated with the support of the Richard Borek Foundation and in March 2002 it was made accessible to the public again.

Tombs and burials

  • Wilhelm Bracke (1842–1880), social democrat, publisher and publicist with his wife Emilie, b. Walter.
  • Catharina Henriette Degener (1734–1795)
  • Johann Heinrich Degener (1736–1812), merchant
  • Hermann Günther (1811–1886), pedagogue, teacher and headmaster with his wife Louise, b. Gelpke, and his children Emilie and Hermann.
  • Konrad Koch (1810–1884), professor, father of the teacher Konrad Koch (1846–1911), who in 1874 introduced the soccer game in Germany.
  • Friedrich Ludwig Rudolph Salomon (1782–1837), provisional to St. Petri
  • Gottfried-Friedrich Tunica (1795–1856), teacher and school inspector

Others

In 2017, the cemetery was the location of the sound installation “A Sea of ​​Heartbeat”, which was set up by the artist Åsa Stjerna as part of the “Klangstaetten - stadtklaenge” project. The installation comprised 45 loudspeakers hidden under the ivy of the graves with different heart tones, each of which could be heard by the cemetery visitor from a few meters away. The project was funded by the Allgemeine Konsumverein e. V. in the period from September 9th to the beginning of October at various locations in the city, including five historic cemeteries.

literature

Web links

Commons : Petrifriedhof  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Wiedemeier: The Braunschweiger Wilhelm Bracke in the founding phase of the German labor movement. GRIN Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-640-46258-2 .
  2. ↑ klangstaetten-stadtklaenge. General consumer association e. V. Braunschweig, accessed on October 23, 2017 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 1.5 ″  N , 10 ° 30 ′ 12.3 ″  E