St. Pauli Cemetery

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Upper, ivy-covered forest parcel of the St. Pauli cemetery

The St. Pauli cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in Dresden . It is located in the north of Dresden between Hechtstrasse , Hammerweg and Stauffenbergallee in the northern suburb of Leipzig at the foot of the Hellerberge and belongs to several parishes in Dresden . The cemetery is laid out in terraces and offers space for around 30,000 graves.

history

Schilling & Graebner's office (left) and celebration hall (right) at the entrance to the St. Pauli cemetery
Mortuary by Schilling & Graebner

The St. Pauli Cemetery was consecrated on May 23, 1862. It served as a replacement for the inner Neustädter Friedhof, which had become too small, and was originally called the Äußerer Neustädter Friedhof (alternatively Neuer Neustädter Friedhof ). Its area comprised two terraces parallel to the slope, which were divided by a linden-lined middle path (today's grave fields A – T). The first burial took place in 1862. In the years that followed, family graves, such as that of the entrepreneur Franz Ludwig Gehe, were built on the north-eastern wall . Carl Adolph Canzler carried out the construction of a celebration hall, the chapel and the gateway.

By 1900 the area of ​​the cemetery had become too small. The site was expanded in an easterly direction to Stauffenbergallee (today's Felder AII – UPII). When the land was sold by the Klotzsche State Forestry Administration, Count von Marschall achieved special merits, so that the marshal's corpse was planted in his honor , which is still located on burial ground BII today.

In 1910, Schilling & Graebner began building a new celebration hall and a morgue, which were completed a year later and are now a listed building. There is a Jehmlich organ in the celebration hall . Numerous members of the organ building family found their final resting place in the St. Pauli cemetery.

In the upper new cemetery area, forest plots were created from 1914, which are now overgrown with ivy. The first urn burials took place in the 1920s.

With an area of ​​11 hectares, the St. Pauli Cemetery is now one of the largest cemeteries in Dresden. It has been closed for a limited time since January 1, 2016, so no new usage rights will be granted. Burials are only possible for spouses and life partners in the graves of their relatives. The background to this is the low number of burials of around 60 per year in previous years with maintenance costs of around 150,000 euros per year. Thought is already being given to using the area after all idle times have expired , including an opening to the adjacent Hechtpark to the south-east .

Graves

There are around 90 protected individual graves in the cemetery.

Memorials

Tomb In memory of the victims of war and tyranny

The St. Pauli Cemetery is a site of numerous memorials. One of the oldest facilities is the honor grove created in 1866 for victims of the Austro-Prussian War . The memorial for Saxon regiments commemorates soldiers who died in hospitals in 1870 and 1871. The memorial received a memorial stone designed by Ludwig Theodor Choulant in 1874 . Not far from the memorial is the memorial à la Memoire des Soldats Français for over 400 French soldiers who died in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71.

The last memorial was inaugurated in 1999. The annex to the memory of the victims of war and tyranny contains the names of all victims of war and violence, of 200 dead in the bombing of Dresden in 1945, names of prisoners of war and victims of political executions after 1945 in the cemetery on a four-part cuboid in the center were buried.

In late autumn 2015 a facility will be built to commemorate 225 children of forced laborers.

A memorial stone commemorates the children of Polish and Soviet forced laborers who died in the “Kiesgrube maternity home” between 1939 and 1945.

Personalities

Grave of Franz Ludwig Gehe

The last resting place of the Saxon War Minister Georg Friedrich Alfred Graf von Fabrice , who died in 1891 and was reburied in the St. Pauli cemetery in 1950, is located in the family grave of Fabrice . The grave decoration for the resting place of the entrepreneur Franz Ludwig Gehe was created by Johannes Schilling ; it contains, among other things, a bust of Gehes.

There are four graves of the organ builder family Jehmlich in the cemetery : the grave of the organ builder Emil Jehmlich (1854–1940), the Königl. Saxon. Court organ builder Bruno Jehmlich (1856–1940), the grave of Rudolf Jehmlich (1908–1970) and the organ builder Otto Jehmlich (1903–1980). The graves are interesting because of the different organ reliefs.

Erich Kästner's family members also found their final resting place in the St. Pauli cemetery. In addition to Kästner's parents Ida Amalia and Emil Richard Kästner, there is also the grave of his uncle Franz Louis Augustin and his wife Ida Lina Augustin, nee. Sagittarius. In Franz Louis Augustin's house "Villa Augustin", in which Erich Kästner stayed a lot in his childhood and which he immortalized in his biography When I was a little boy , is now the Erich Kästner Museum .

Memorial trees

In addition to the marshal's corpse, there is another Dresden memorial tree in the cemetery : the Meschwit sign is the largest specimen of the shingle oak in Germany.

Web links

Commons : St. Pauli Friedhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ulrike Kirsten: Oasis of calm on the slope. In: Saxon newspaper . August 6, 2015, accessed November 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Katharina Rögner: The St. Pauli cemetery in Dresden will be closed for a long time. In: Dresdner Latest News . January 1, 2016, accessed November 11, 2019 .
  3. ^ Alma Uhlmann: Second life for the St. Pauli cemetery. In: Saxon newspaper. June 14, 2018, accessed November 11, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 14.6 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 28.6 ″  E