Reformed Cemetery (Erlangen)

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View over the Reformed Cemetery, on the right edge of the picture the funeral hall of the Neustädter Friedhof

The Reformed Cemetery is a cemetery in the Middle Franconian city ​​of Erlangen . It is owned by the local evangelical reformed parish, the center of which is the so-called Huguenot church .

history

The first cemetery of the French-reformed community in the 1686 Erlanger Neustadt founded already on November 5, 1687 an approximately 3,600 square meters large land between Castle Garden opened and Upper Charles Street after the Bayreuth Margrave Christian Ernst with a declaration of 15 August 1687 the Huguenots had granted their own cemeteries for burial of their dead. From 1693 the German Reformed community was allowed to use the cemetery. As early as 1726, the Margrave Georg Friedrich Karl urged the cemetery to be closed because of the proximity to the palace gardens, but the city of Erlangen only succeeded in this 100 years later: On April 2, 1826, the magistrate forbade the two Reformed communities from any further burial in the cemetery. After the rest period had expired , the cemetery was closed in 1850. In its place, a new building for the Fridericianum grammar school was built in 1877/78 , which was replaced in 1974 by the new building of the university library. In addition, today's Schuhstrasse was connected to Universitätsstrasse.

As a replacement for the old cemetery, the two Reformed congregations purchased the field south of the Neustädter Friedhof from the university for 150 guilders and set up today's Reformed Cemetery there, which was opened on October 16, 1828. As early as 1847 an extension to the Äußere Brucker Straße was necessary. The southern side of the grave was assigned to the French Reformed community, while the north side was reserved for the German Reformed community. Since the unification of the two Reformed congregations in 1921, the cemetery has been used and administered by the Evangelical Reformed congregation.

description

Grave site for the reformed pastor and theologian Christian Krafft († 1845)

The reformed cemetery, measuring around 2200 square meters (approx. 90 × 25 meters), is located on Äußere Brucker Straße, an important entry and exit road from Erlangen city center towards the districts of Bruck and Frauenaurach and Herzogenaurach . The Evangelical-Lutheran Neustädter Friedhof borders directly to the north and the Ehrenfriedhof to the south .

At the western end of the cemetery is the former crypt chapel , a sandstone block building with a gable roof from the 19th century. There are numerous interesting tombs from the 19th and early 20th centuries on the site. There are some influential personalities who belonged to the Evangelical Reformed faith, including some pastors and theologians such as Christian Krafft († 1845) and August Ebrard († 1888), professors such as Wilhelm Kiesselbach († 1902) and Ernst Graser ( † 1929) and the mayor Emil Fränger († 1941).

literature

Web links

Commons : Reformed Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Renate Wünschmann: Reformed cemetery. In: Erlanger Stadtlexikon.
  2. ^ Gerhard Philipp Wolf: German Reformed Congregation. In: Erlanger Stadtlexikon.

Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 35.4 ″  N , 10 ° 59 ′ 58.4 ″  E