City cemetery (Göttingen)

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Göttingen city cemetery
chapel
Directly adjacent Jewish cemetery

The old city ​​cemetery in Göttingen is a historic cemetery with graves of important scholars, including Max Planck , Max Born , David Hilbert , Friedrich Wöhler and Otto Hahn .

Location and history

The cemetery is on Kasseler Landstrasse on the outskirts of Göttingen Weststadt. The area has an area of ​​around 36 hectares, on which there are around 40,000 earth and urn graves.

Due to the growing population, in 1879 the mayor of Göttingen, Georg Merkel , decided to build a new cemetery on the city limits of the former town of Grone , now a district of Göttingen. As an example the city building served Heinrich Gerber of Stuttgart cemetery . The first section, which covered an area of ​​7.5 hectares, was inaugurated on December 15, 1881 and replaced the Albani and Bartholomew cemetery as burial sites. A cemetery chapel was built as early as the turn of the century and the area was expanded for the first time, with five more to follow by 1963.

In 1975 the Göttingen burial site was moved from the city cemetery to the newly created Junkerberg park cemetery . Since then, only existing burial rights have been taken into account at the Göttingen city cemetery. A redesign of the area into a park that has been discussed several times has not yet taken place. After no new grave sites had been allocated for decades, burials have been possible again in the city cemetery since 2005, however, due to poor soil conditions, it is restricted to urn burials.

Graves of famous people

"Nobel Rondell", joint memorial for the Nobel Prize winners buried in various places in the Göttingen city cemetery

Eight Nobel Prize winners are buried in the Göttingen city cemetery:

Graves of Wilhelm Weber , Max Born and Rudolf von Jhering
Grave of Friedrich Carl Andreas and Lou Andreas-Salomé
Grave of Konrat Ziegler
Grave of Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen

In addition, the following personalities found their final resting place in the city cemetery:

Remarks

  1. ↑ Figures from Der Göttinger Stadtfriedhof , p. 3
  2. ^ Fachdienst Friedhöfe Göttingen (ed.): Die Friedhöfe in Göttingen (information brochure), Göttingen 2011, p. 11

literature

  • The Göttingen city cemetery. A tour , Tourismusverein Göttingen e. V. (Ed.), Göttinger Tageblatt 1994.

Web links

Commons : Stadtfriedhof Göttingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files


Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 57 "  N , 9 ° 54 ′ 35"  E