Poppelsdorf cemetery
The Poppelsdorf cemetery is an urban cemetery in Bonn district Poppelsdorf .
history
The cemetery was laid out from 1798 by the Poppelsdorf Catholic St. Sebastian congregation and inaugurated on May 15, 1800. At that time, the burial site occupied a small plot of land at the northern foot of the Kreuzberg . In the second half of the 19th century, numerous cemetery expansions were made up the Kreuzberghang, as the available space was quickly exhausted each time. Between 1897 and 1898 the cemetery was given a new section that extends west of the station path . In this new part an administration building was built in 1901 and a cemetery chapel in 1928. An urn grove was also laid out in the new part of the cemetery in 1907 . After Poppelsdorf was incorporated into Bonn, the city took over the cemetery.
Since 1984, the cemetery stands as a monument under monument protection . Since then and to this day, the Society of Friends and Patrons of the Old Cemetery in Bonn e. V. As in the meantime at many other historical cemeteries in North Rhine-Westphalia, everyone has the opportunity to sponsor a grave, in which one receives a right to use this grave in return for the restoration of a historical grave.
Tombs designed by artists
(without claim of completeness)
- Rudolf Bosselt (1871–1938): Zuntz (stone relief)
- Carl M. Geiling (1874–1924): Kraemer (bronze relief)
- Joseph Hammerschmidt (1873–1926): Lute (lying miner, "last shift")
- Ferdinand Hartzer (1838–1906): Murmann (angel)
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Albert Küppers (1842–1929): Plaques for
- Franz Burgers (entrepreneur)
- August Huyssen (geologist)
- Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (chemist)
- Matthias Klein (lawyer)
- Hermann Neusser (newspaper publisher)
- Heinrich Nissen (ancient historian)
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Jakobus Linden (1886–1950):
- Linden (Pietà)
- Metzmacher (angel)
- Siegfried Meinardus (1874–1933): Jansen (group of figures)
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Karl Menser (1872–1929):
- Caspar Joseph Brambach (figure relief)
- Hans Cajetan (memorial plaque)
- Carl Garrè (commemorative plaque)
- Anton Josef Reiss (1835–1900): Ittenbach and Ehlenz (Pietà-Tondo)
- Paul Stadler (1875–1955): Raumann (plaque)
- Peter Terkatz (1880–1954): Fallen Mark
- Erich von den Driesch (* 1878): Carl von den Driesch (plaque)
- Ingeborg von Rath (1902–1984): Furmans, von Rath and Winkelmann (plaque)
- Christian Warth (1836–1890): Kernchen (mourners)
- Gottfried Welter (1871–1940)
- Nobis and Linden (Christ Figure)
- Eduard Pflüger (badge)
Three of the named artists rest in the Poppelsdorf cemetery: Albert Küppers, Jakobus Linden and Ingeborg von Rath.
Worth seeing
The Poppelsdorf cemetery is one of the oldest burial sites in Bonn that has been used as such to this day, along with the Old Cemetery. Both in the old and in the new part of the cemetery one encounters numerous architecturally sophisticated tombs from the 19th century.
In the cemetery there are also a large number of graves of deserving Bonn citizens, including several founding professors of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . Some of the famous people buried here are:
- Fritz Bottler (1870–1922), Lord Mayor of Bonn
- Caspar Joseph Brambach (1833–1902), composer
- Max Braubach (1899–1975), historian
- Gerold von Braunmühl (1935–1986), diplomat in the Foreign Office, murdered by the RAF
- Hans Cloos (1885–1951), geologist
- Wilhelm Daniels (1903–1977), Mayor of Bonn
- Horst Ehmke (1927-2017), politician ( SPD )
- Albert Ehrhard (1862–1940), church historian
- Willi Engels (1895–1981), President of the German Singers Association
- Heinrich Karl Erben (1921–1997), paleontologist
- Eugen Ewig (1913–2006), historian
- Wilhelm von Freeden (1822–1894), founder of the Deutsche Seewarte
- Carl Garrè (1857–1928), surgeon
- Bernhard Franz Josef von Gerolt (1747–1828), electoral Cologne privy councilor, later member of the Imperial French Legislative Body
- Georg August Goldfuß (1782–1848), zoologist
- Waldemar Haberey (1901–1985), archaeologist and cultural historian
- Felix Hausdorff (1868–1942), mathematician, co-founder of modern topology
- Wolfgang Hesse (1913–1999), Bonn City Director
- Friedrich Hirzebruch (1927–2012), mathematician
- Erich Hoffmann (1868–1959), dermatologist
- Hajo Holborn (1902–1969), historian
- Pauline Horson-Brügelmann , née Dyckhoff (1858–1918), soprano and chamber singer, alongside her husband, the chemist Dr. sc. nat. Moritz Gottfried Brügelmann (1849–1920)
- Hermann Hüffer (1830–1905), historian
- Oskar Jäger (1830–1910), historian
- Hubert Jedin (1900–1980), church historian
- Alfred Kantorowicz (1880–1962), dentist (abandoned and leveled in summer 2015, restored in 2016 and grave of honor since 2017)
- Heinrich Kayser (1853–1940), physicist
- Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (1829–1896), chemist
- Friedrich August Körnicke (1828–1908), botanist
- Max Koernicke (1874–1955), botanist
- Heinrich Mathias Konen (1874–1948), physicist and politician
- Albert Küppers (1842–1929), sculptor
- Rudolf Lipschitz (1832–1903), mathematician
- Georg Loeschcke (1852–1915), archaeologist
- Clemens Julius Mangner (1885–1961), architect
- Friedrich Marx (1859–1941), classical philologist
- Erwin Nasse (1829–1890), economist
- Heinrich Nissen (1839–1912), historian
- Wolfgang Paul (1913–1993), physicist, Nobel Prize winner, developer of the Paul trap
- Eduard Pflüger (1829–1910), physiologist
- Otto Renois (1892–1933), communist city councilor , shot by the Nazis "on the run"
- Annemarie Schimmel (1922–2003), Islamic scholar
- Franz Schmidt (1899–1973), Bonn City Director
- Rudolf Schultze (1854–1935), architect, city architect of Bonn
- Eberhard Schwickerath (1856–1940), music teacher
- Johannes Sobotta (1869–1945), anatomist, founder of a world-famous anatomy atlas
- Friedrich Soennecken (1848–1919), inventor and entrepreneur ( Soennecken company )
- Franz Steinbach (1895–1964), historian
- Eduard Strasburger (1844–1912), botanist
- Johannes Straub (1912–1996), ancient historian
- Eduard Study (1862–1930), mathematician
- Annemarie Suckow von Heydendorff (1912–2007), sculptor
- Hans Thuar (1887–1945), painter
- Moritz Trautmann (1842–1920), English studies
- Carl Troll (1899–1975), geographer
- Adolf Zycha (1871–1948), legal historian
In addition to the remarkable buildings, the Poppelsdorfer Friedhof is characterized by its scenic hillside location. In its upper area - especially around the urn grove - the cemetery has a rich population of trees.
See also
Web links
References and comments
- ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 56, number A 731
- ↑ bonn.de: 68-1 - Statute on cemeteries and funerals of March 4, 2011 , § 34 (2). Retrieved February 9, 2013
- ↑ The figure (1911) was stolen in spring 2010.
- ↑ Nicolas Ottersbach: Grave of honor for pioneers of dentistry . General-Anzeiger , March 7, 2017, accessed April 12, 2018.
Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 4.7 " N , 7 ° 4 ′ 54.3" E