- Source: Johannisfriedhof, Dresden
St. John's Cemetery (German: Johannisfriedhof) ) is the second cemetery of the same name in Dresden, Saxony, Germany. It is located in the Tolkewitz district of the city. With its 24.6 hectares, the Evangelical Lutheran Johannisfriedhof was the largest cemetery in Dresden until the municipal non-denominational Heidefriedhof was established in 1934.
History and description
The old burial ground of St. John's was inaugurated in 1575 and had to be expanded in 1633, 1680 and 1721 due to plague. Many prominent Dresden residents such as the builder of the iconic landmark church, baroque Frauenkirche, architect George Bähr, and the greatest Saxon organ builder, Gottfried Silbermann found their final resting place at the old burial ground.
The cemetery was closed in 1814 due to lack of space and sanitary reasons, and thus neglected cemetery fell into disrepair. For this reason, the city management decided to relocate the cemetery in 1854, despite citizens' petitions and heavy protests. In 1875, the Protestant church acquired land in the Tolkewitz district in order to establish a new cemetery here to replace the old abandoned cemeteries of the Lutheran St. Johannes, Frauenkirche and Kreuzkirche parishes in Dresden which ran out of space. The new burial ground was consecrated on May 16, 1881, by provost General-Superintendent Moritz Franz and the first burial was recorded on July 17 of the same year. The designated historic landmark chapel with an impressive dome was built by Paul Wallot in 1894 in the Neo-Renaissance style.
A jury led by Lutheran bishop Margot Käßmann awarded the Johannisfriedhof as the most beautiful cemetery in Germany on November 8, 2011.
Notable burials
List is sorted in order of the year of death.
Prince Kraft of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1827-1892), Prussian general and nobleman
Franz Curti (1854-1898), Swiss-German opera composer
Otto Staudinger (1830-1900), entomologist and a natural history dealer considered one of the largest in the world specialising in the collection and sale of insects to museums, scientific institutions
Maximilian Messmacher (1842-1906), Russian-German architect
Grete Beier (1885-1908), the last woman who was publicly executed in the Kingdom of Saxony
Ludwig Hartmann (composer) (1836-1910), composer and music critic
August Toepler (1836-1912), chemist and physicist
Hartmuth Baldamus (1891-1917), World War I flying ace credited with 18 aerial victories
Christian Otto Mohr (1835-1918), civil engineer
Martin Krause (mathematician) (1851-1920), mathematician
Georg Treu (1843-1921), Classical archaeologist
Woldemar von Seidlitz (1850-1922), Russian-born German art historian
Hugo Richard Jüngst (1853-1923), composer and choir-leader
Vali von der Osten (1882-1923), soprano, sister of Eva von der Osten
Carl Georg Oscar Drude (1852-1933), botanist
Rudolf Schilling (1859-1933), architect
Eva von der Osten (1881–1936), dramatic soprano
Ferdinand Dorsch (1875-1938), painter, graphic artist
Cornelius Gurlitt (art historian) (1850-1938), architect and art historian
Hermann Ilgen (1856-1940), pharmacist, businessman and patron of art and sport
Karl Emil Scherz (1860-1945), architect
Walther Schieck (1874-1946), politician who served as the last Minister-President of Saxony during the Weimar Republic
Adele Osterloh (1857-1946), poet
Margarethe Siems (1879-1952), operatic dramatic coloratura soprano and voice teacher
Eberhard Hempel (1886-1967), art historian, and professor at the TU Dresden specializing in the Baroque era
Heinz Knobloch (1926-2003), writer and journalist
Kurt Biedenkopf (1930-2021), jurist, academic and politician
Gallery
References
External links
Johannisfriedhof Tolkewitz at Find a Grave
Official website of Ev. Lutheran Johannisfriedhof (in German)
Photo album and information (in German)
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Johannisfriedhof, Dresden
- Christian Otto Mohr
- Adele Osterloh
- Eva von der Osten
- Kurt Biedenkopf
- Hugo Jüngst
- Margarethe Siems
- Cornelius Gurlitt (art historian)
- Friedenspark
- Alter Johannisfriedhof
