Südfriedhof (Frankfurt am Main)
The Südfriedhof is a cemetery in Frankfurt am Main in the Sachsenhausen district . The cemetery was opened in 1868 as a replacement for the closed Old Sachsenhausen cemetery in Brückenstraße / Schifferstraße.
location
The cemetery is located in the southern part of Sachsenhausen and borders the Darmstädter Landstrasse to the east . Opposite is the Leonardo Royal Hotel Frankfurt . Not far from the cemetery area is the Sachsenhausen waiting area to the south , and the Binding brewery and the area of the former Henninger brewery to the north . The cemetery is located near the approach path of Frankfurt Airport .
The cemetery has a size of 13 hectares and is the burial place of about 13,000 deceased. These include German and French casualties in the Franco-Prussian War 1870/71 , casualties in World War I and World War II and civilian victims of the air raids on Frankfurt am Main .
history
Since 1508, the Sachsenhausen cemetery has been at the southern end of Brückengasse by the Elisabeth chapel . After the Reformation was introduced in Frankfurt in 1533, the cemetery was used exclusively for the burial of Lutheran deceased, as there were initially almost no members of other denominations. It was not until 1812 that Catholics were also allowed to be buried in the Sachsenhausen cemetery.
After the demolition of the Frankfurt city fortifications at the beginning of the 19th century , the formerly rural suburb of Sachsenhausen grew rapidly, so that the old cemetery soon became too small. In addition, it formed a traffic obstacle that stood in the way of the extension of Brückengasse in the direction of the Südbahnhof .
In 1864 the council decided to build a new cemetery at the gates of Sachsenhausen. The cemetery opened in 1868 and the old cemetery closed. Today it serves as a green area.
The mourning hall in the style of the Florentine baroque was designed by the city inspector Koch at the time and was only built later in 1896. The interior was done by the history painter Leopold Bode . The mourning hall was largely destroyed in World War II and rebuilt in 1950. The cemetery was laid out as a park cemetery and its concept and design are partly based on an English landscape garden .
Personalities
The graves of a number of well-known personalities are located in Frankfurt's southern cemetery.
- Paul Andorff (1849–1920), painter
- Otto Bäppler (1868–1922), architect
- Carlo Bohländer (1919–2004), jazz musician
- Wilhelm Busch (1868–1921), theologian
- Otmar Emminger (1911–1986), President of the Bundesbank
- Alois Giefer (1908–1982), architect - Won E207 / 208
- Georg Kalischer (1873–1938), chemist - Won A 1059 c
- Richard Kirn (1905–1979), journalist and writer - Won D 898
- Georg Krämer (1906–1969), sculptor - won G 25 Ug
- Eduard Lampe (1857–1914), doctor, co-founder of the Lampe clinic for diabetics
- Hans Leistikow (1892–1962), graphic artist - Won E 195
- Hermann Mäckler (1910–1985), architect
- Bernhard Mannfeld (1848–1925), painter and graphic artist - Won D 606
- Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890–1991), theologian, economist and social philosopher - Won A on the northern wall No. 27
- Franz Oppenheimer (1864–1943), sociologist and economist
- Heinrich Petry (1832–1904), sculptor - Won B 580/581
- Max Pruss (1891–1960), aeronaut - won A 54/56
- Boris Rajewsky (1893–1974), biophysicist - Won E 307
- Oskar Sommer (1840–1894), architect - Won A 310/311
- Johann Gerhard Christian Thomas (1785–1838), politician and historian, multiple senior mayor of the Free City of Frankfurt - Won A on the northern wall no. 57
- Carl Oskar Ursinus (1878–1952), engineer and aviation pioneer - Won B 1258
- Helmut Walcha (1907–1991), organist, composer and music teacher - won F 119
Monument protection
A large number of graves as well as the entrance building and the memorials are under monument protection .
See also
Web links
- The Frankfurt Südfriedhof on the side of the city of Frankfurt
- Photo documentation about the Südfriedhof Frankfurt
- Guide to the graves of well-known personalities in Frankfurt cemeteries , status 2003 (PDF in ZIP file , 8.7 MB)
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Südfriedhof Kopfbau In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
References and comments
- ↑ Falk map of Frankfurt a. M./Offenbach a. M. Falk Verlag, Ostfildern 2011.
- ^ Franz Oppenheimer died in Los Angeles in 1943. In 2007 his urn was transferred to a grave of honor in Frankfurt's southern cemetery.
- ↑ The grave was originally in the old Sachsenhausen cemetery and was transferred to the south cemetery in 1898.
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 23.9 " N , 8 ° 41 ′ 34.4" E