City cemetery (Göttingen)
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
Eight Nobel Prize winners are buried in the Göttingen city cemetery:
- Max Born , Physics 1954
- Otto Hahn , Chemistry 1944
- Max von Laue , Physics 1914
- Walther Nernst , Chemistry 1920
- Max Planck , Physics 1918
- Otto Wallach , Chemistry 1910
- Adolf Windaus , Chemistry 1928
- Richard Zsigmondy , Chemistry 1925
In addition, the following personalities found their final resting place in the city cemetery:
- Friedrich Carl Andreas , Iranist and Orientalist
- Lou Andreas-Salomé , essayist and psychoanalyst
- Georg Arnold Bacmeister , President of the District Court
- Carl Ludwig von Bar , teacher of criminal law and international law
- Georg Friedrich Calsow , politician, Lord Mayor of Göttingen
- Paul de Lagarde , cultural philosopher and orientalist
- Hermann Föge , lawyer and politician
- Heinrich Eberts , forester
- Fritz Fuldner , writer and lawyer
- Moritz Heyne , mediaevalist and lexicographer
- David Hilbert , mathematician
- Heinz Hilpert , actor and theater director
- Friedrich Hoffmann , lawyer
- Friedrich Hoßbach , General of the Infantry
- Rudolf von Jhering , lawyer
- Bruno Karl August Jung , politician, Lord Mayor of Göttingen
- Gottfried Jungmichel , university professor and politician
- Theodor Kaluza , physicist and mathematician
- Felix Klein , mathematician
- Ernst Wilhelm Klinkerfues , astronomer
- Gustav Körte , classical archaeologist
- Gerhard Leibholz , lawyer, and Sabine Leibholz-Bonhoeffer
- Walter Meyerhoff , lawyer and politician
- Herman Nohl , educator and philosopher
- Paul Oertmann , lawyer
- Hermann Oncken , historian
- Ludwig Prandtl , engineer and physicist
- Friedrich Julius Rosenbach , physician
- Max Runge , gynecologist
- Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen , geologist
- Karl Schwarzschild , astronomer and physicist
- Carl Ludwig Siegel , mathematician
- Gustav Tammann , chemist
- Heinrich Tammann , physician and university professor
- Hannah Vogt , historian
- Wilhelm Weber , physicist
- Emil Wiechert , physicist and seismologist
- Friedrich Wöhler , chemist
- Konrat Ziegler , classical philologist, Righteous Among the Nations
Remarks
- ↑ Figures from Der Göttinger Stadtfriedhof , p. 3
- ^ 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
- Nobel Prize Winners in the City Cemetery (PDF; 4.0 MB)
- The old Göttingen city cemetery ( Memento from June 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 57 " N , 9 ° 54 ′ 35" E