Südfriedhof (Weißenburg)

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Funeral hall of the south cemetery

The southern cemetery is the oldest of the existing cemeteries in Weißenburg in Bavaria , a major district town in the Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . It is also known as the old cemetery to separate it from the younger Westfriedhof. There is also the Russian cemetery in Weißenburg and the cemetery on the Wülzburg . The south cemetery is the city's more popular cemetery.

Several tombstones from the late 17th to early 19th centuries as well as parts of the enclosure, the main gate, the cemetery chapel and the funeral hall were registered as architectural monuments in the Bavarian list of monuments under monument number D-5-77-177-28 .

Location and history

The Südfriedhof is located southwest of the adjacent old town of Weißenburg . The Weißenburg train station, the Catholic Willibald Church and the Weissenburg police station are not far away . The postal address is Am Kirchhof 4 . The cemetery rises between 420 and 422 meters above  sea ​​level and covers an area of ​​around 2.6  hectares .

It was laid out in 1588 after the churchyard of the town church of St. Andrew was abandoned. The cemetery chapel dates from 1706. It was renovated in 1934. The funeral parlor is a cubic building with a pyramidal roof and roof skylights , and in 1934 to plans by the municipal architect Friedrich Karl Kalkner built. Between 2001 and 2006 the old tombstones were restored and conserved.

22 victims of the Second World War , who died in the bombing raid on Weissenburg on February 23, 1945, rest in the southern cemetery . There is also a memorial stone in the south cemetery for the dead from the city of Kaaden an der Eger .

The sculpture "Abschied" (1942/43) was created by Karl Hemmeter .

Buried personalities

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Renner: Not all resting places are dignified . Weißenburger Tagblatt . Retrieved April 2, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c Südfriedhof , Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF, accessed on March 2, 2017).
  3. ↑ Determined using the topographic maps ( BayernAtlas ) of the Bavarian Surveying Office .
  4. ^ Mourning for Claus Wagner . Bavarian table tennis association in the Weissenburg district. Retrieved April 2, 2017.

Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 40.4 ″  N , 10 ° 57 ′ 59.7 ″  E