Südfriedhof (Kiel)

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The Kapellenberg on the south cemetery in Kiel
Aerial view of the south cemetery (in the upper half of the picture)

The Südfriedhof in Kiel was opened in 1869 and is considered the first completely park cemetery in Germany. It is located about two kilometers southwest of the old town between Winterbeker Weg and Saarbrückenstrasse. The Südfriedhof district that surrounds it is named after the cemetery .

layout

At the main entrance is the artificially created Kapellenberg with graves of wealthy middle-class families from the late 19th century. The burial chapels, mausoleums and tombs are arranged in a double ring.

The layout of the cemetery avoids path axes, the paths run in an arc around fields that differ in shape and are also set differently from one another. The Südfriedhof is an early example of a park-like burial site, it has been a listed building since 1995 . The area is under the sponsorship of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

history

In 1865 the first land for the cemetery was purchased. The landscape gardener Wilhelm Benque , who also designed the Bremer Bürgerpark , presented a first draft for the new cemetery in 1866. A revised design followed in 1867, and the earthworks were largely completed in the same year. In 1868 the planting of the garden began. On April 30, 1869, the cemetery was inaugurated under the name Neuer Kirchhof . The cemetery was enlarged in the years 1888/1889 to the present area of ​​approx. 13 hectares through the purchase of further land. With the opening of the new Eichhof cemetery in 1901, the cemetery was given its current name Südfriedhof . Around 90,000 people have been buried on the site since it opened.

Graves of famous people

The letter-number combinations in brackets identify the field and the grave number.

Tombs of famous artists

The tomb of the grave site Lass

Edvard Eriksen , the creator of the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen , designed the tomb of the Lass tomb (F / 129).

Heinrich Missfeldt created the tomb of Johann Meyer (Q / 351), the portrait medallion on the tomb of Joachim Bünsow (B / 73) and the bronze relief on the tomb of Friedrich Wolgast (G / 408).

Cemetery administrator

  • Cemetery attendant Heinrich Christian Lamp (1815–1895)
  • Cemetery administrator Johannes August Christian Hansen (1842–1911)
  • Cemetery inspector Wilhelm Martens (1880–1931)
  • Cemetery inspector Rudolf Will (1889–1963)
  • Cemetery administrator Johannes Rieper (1916–1991)

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literature

  • Johann Grönhoff: “A walk across the south cemetery”. In communications from the Society for Kiel City History , 1953, Issue 4, pp. 37–44, ISSN  0173-0940
  • Johannes Rieper: “100 Years of Kiel South Cemetery”. In: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Kieler Stadtgeschichte 58, 1969, Issue 1/2, pp. 49–75
  • Gerd Stolz: A little guide to the southern cemetery in the state capital of Kiel . Published by the Evangelical Lutheran Church District Kiel. Kiel 1996.
  • Walter Arnold, Bettina Fischer: The Kiel South Cemetery. Funeral culture and garden art since 1869. Husum Printing and Publishing Company, Husum 2019, ISBN 978-3-89876-963-1

Archival material

  • Johannes Rieper: "Exhibition 100 Years of Kiel South Cemetery". Extensive collection of materials, documents and photos, archive of the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church

Web links

Commons : Südfriedhof in Kiel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kieler Südfriedhof: With mermaid and top model. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .

Coordinates: 54 ° 18 ′ 44 ″  N , 10 ° 6 ′ 54 ″  E