Jacobsfriedhof
The Jacob Cemetery (also Jacob Cemetery) is the oldest existing cemetery in Weimar. Here are the first burials took place in the 12th century. It is located in the suburb of Jacob, which offered in the Middle Ages outside the city walls pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela places to stay ( and now part of the historic, UNESCO-protected old town ). The tombs are located on the property around the Jacob Church.
From 1530 to 1818 he was the only cemetery in Weimar, who was then a much greater extent. After 1818 the " new cemetery in front of the woman gates" (referred to as Weimar Historical Cemetery later) had been created, many of the graves were leveled. After 1840, no more funerals were held at the Jacob cemetery, then the cemetery fell slowly. The city of Weimar took him later and let convert the former burial ground in 1927 to a horticultural plant.
The cash vault
At the southeastern edge of the land Jacob cemetery is the designated as a cash vault mausoleum, which was originally built by a financial officer in 1715 as a private burial place for himself and his family. In 1742 it went on ( at that time the Ministry of Finance) in the possession of the landscape checkout. Since then, it served as a collective burial site primarily for persons of rank and nobility, and did not have sufficient funds for an elaborate family tomb. Burials were carried out here in 1755 to 5 March 1823. Among other things found here Luise of Göchhausen ( a maid of honor of Anna Amalia of Saxe- Weimar -Eisenach ), and the parents of Charlotte von Stein their final resting place.
The former provided with a wrought iron gate baroque pavilion on the cash vault, which was built in 1854 leveled with large parts of the cemetery, is a reconstruction from the year 1913.
The Schiller Crypt
Because of his title of Privy Councillor and his elevation to the peerage in 1802 and who died on May 9, 1805 Friedrich von Schiller was one of those personalities who were buried in the cash vault. The mausoleum is therefore often referred to as " Schiller Crypt". After 1826 the Mayor Carl Leberecht Schwabe had caused the recovery of Schiller's mortal remains from the cash vault, 1827 exhumed bones that were thought to be his, in an oak coffin in the newly built royal crypt in the Historical Cemetery of Weimar were transferred. In 2008 revealed a startling DNA analysis that the bones in the coffin can not come from Schiller, since the coffin next to Goethe is left empty. It is believed that the actual remains of Schiller have perished in the leveling of the cemetery, including cash vault.