St. Jürgen Cemetery (Kiel)

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The cemetery around 1900

The St. Jürgen Cemetery in Kiel was the cemetery belonging to the St. Jürgen Church . It was used until 1909 and existed until 1955.

history

The St. Jürgen Hospital already had a cemetery in the Middle Ages . Among other things, Johann Andreas Cramer was buried there in 1788 . In 1793, the board of directors of the Nikolaikirche and the Heiliggeistkirche bought a plot of land southeast of the Ringstrasse / Sophienblatt intersection at Kiel Central Station and used it as the “New Cemetery”. In 1836 this was expanded to double the area to the south. The northern part was now called "Old Cemetery", the southern part "New Cemetery". 1858 is only mentioned briefly in a city guide

“Burial places. More Christian south on the Sophienblatt near the St.Jürgenscapelle. "

In 1869 a "new cemetery" was laid out again, the south cemetery . Now the name St. Jürgen Friedhof was used for the first time . The north cemetery was inaugurated in 1878 and the Jewish cemetery in 1879 on Michelsenstrasse. The Eichhof park cemetery followed in 1896 .

The 1944 cemetery from the air

The St. Jürgen cemetery was actively used until the end of 1909. By 1954 the cemetery fell into disrepair and was to give way to the expansion of the Sophienblatt and a large car park. The bones were reburied. On the forecourt of the cemetery chapel of the Eichhof park cemetery there is a collective resting place for them, which was inaugurated on June 12, 1955. 64 grave monuments and grave slabs, which are under monument protection, were also given a new place there.

The bones of the Danish writer Jens Immanuel Baggesen (1764–1826) and the philosopher Carl Leonhard Reinhold (1757–1823) were also reburied. They were buried again in the Eichhof cemetery on June 23, 1955 during the Kiel Week. The bones of the composer Carl Loewe (1796–1869) were brought to the Nikolaikirche. The "Iron Cross", tomb for fallen soldiers of the Schleswig-Holstein army in 1848/51, has been in the north cemetery since then .

Furthermore, there were originally tombs for the following people in the St. Jürgen cemetery and today in the Eichhof park cemetery:

The bones of Pastor Claus Harms (1778–1855) were reburied in the south cemetery.

literature

  • Kühn, Gustav: Farewell to the St. Jürgenskirchhof . In: Communications from the Society for Kiel City History . tape 48 , 1954, pp. 45-58 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ F. Prahl: Kiel and the immediate vicinity . Preetz / Kiel 1858.
  2. Manfred Jessen-Klingenberg : Jens Baggesen: A Danish poet as a professor in Kiel. In: Werner Paravicini (Ed.): Encounters with Kiel. Gift of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität for the 750th anniversary of the city . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1992, pp. 373-376, ISBN 3-529-02722-7 .
  3. Erich Hoffmann: "At the Eichhoffriedhof: The tomb of Nikolaus Falck". In: Werner Paravicini (Hrsg.): Encounters with Kiel: Gift of the Christian-Albrechts-University for the 750th anniversary of the city . Neumünster: Wachholtz 1992, pp. 370–372, ISBN 3-529-02722-7 .
  4. Gerd Stolz: Small guide to the south cemetery in the state capital Kiel . Published by the Evangelical Lutheran Church District Kiel. Kiel 1996, p. 41 f.

Coordinates: 54 ° 18 ′ 49 ″  N , 10 ° 7 ′ 49 ″  E