Poppelsdorf cemetery

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Alley in the oldest part of the cemetery
Soennecken mausoleum

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)

"Last Shift" by Joseph Hammerschmidt (Grab Lute)
Mourning genius
Badge for Carl von den Driesch

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:

Oskar Jäger grave site
Grave site of Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz

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

Commons : Poppelsdorfer Friedhof  - Collection of images

References and comments

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 56, number A 731
  2. ↑ bonn.de: 68-1 - Statute on cemeteries and funerals of March 4, 2011 , § 34 (2). Retrieved February 9, 2013
  3. ↑ The figure (1911) was stolen in spring 2010.
  4. ↑ 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