Resting place of Gustav Adolf Pfeiffer

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Grave of Gustav Adolf Pfeiffer
Gustav Adolf Pfeiffer

The resting place of Gustav Adolf Pfeiffer is listed tomb of the founder of Pfeiffer's foundations Gustav Adolf Pfeiffer on the Ostfriedhof Magdeburg in Magdeburg district Cracau .

location

It is located north of the main path running through the cemetery from west to east in the center of the cemetery, northwest of the cemetery chapel of the east cemetery .

layout

The polished black stone tomb consists of a high, stepped base on which a large stone cross stands. While the cross is unlabeled there is the inscription on the base:

Here in God,
waiting for a happy resurrection, rests
our beloved man
and dear dear father,
Superintendent
Gustav Adolf Pfeiffer,
the founder of the local institutions.

* Nov. 15, 1837,
† Dec. 7. 1902.

Below, on the lowest part of the black base, there is another inscription:

Remember your teachers who
told you the word of God,
which end is looking,
and follow their faith.

Hebrews 7/13

The tomb erected for Gustav Adolf Pfeiffer, which is important for the history of regional social affairs, is considered to be important for local and social history.

In the local register of monuments , the grave is listed as a monument under registration number 094 71426 .

literature

  • List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 14, State Capital Magdeburg , State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-531-5 , page 426.

Individual evidence

  1. Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt , Magdeburg.pdf, page 2643.

Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 18.9 ″  N , 11 ° 39 ′ 55.1 ″  E