Nordfriedhof (Leipzig)

The North Cemetery is one operated by the city of Leipzig municipal cemeteries. It is located in the Berliner Straße 125-127 in Eutritzsch district between Hamburger Straße, Theresa Street and Maximilian Avenue, immediately adjacent to the smaller Old Jewish Cemetery.

The North Cemetery was opened on 24 May 1881. Compared to the largest plant of the city, the 78 -acre South Cemetery, comprises the northern cemetery with only 7.3 acres less than a tenth of that surface. He has creatively and dendrologically on yet a great variety, so among other things, an applied after 2000 wetland.

The buildings in the cemetery date from 1905 to 1910. Otto Brückwald built according to Italian buildings forming a complex with wooden pergolas, they combined chapel, mortuary and administration. The chapel was destroyed in the air raids on 4 December 1943. Left of the entrance is also designed by the Brückwald former official residence. The systems designed Otto Wittenberg still in traditional style with regular grave fields in strict symmetry. Only with the 1886 South Cemetery opened him a new type of park cemetery succeeded. Within the North cemetery there was no jewelry areas, only in front of the inset main entrance at the Berlin street planted colorful jewelry discounts were applied.

On the North Cemetery two honorary citizen of the city of Leipzig found their last resting, the senior prosecutor Hermann Tessendorf and the Imperial Court President Rudolf Freiherr von Seckendorf. Other important personalities who have their tomb here are Ernest Arthur seaman, founder of publisher EA Seemann, the book publisher, Karl Tauchnitz, the urologist Arthur Kollmann and Ernst Pinkert, founder of the Leipzig Zoo.

On the North Cemetery is also one of the oldest memorials of the Battle of Leipzig. After 1892, at the Eutritzscher street a mass grave of fallen soldiers of the Battle of the Nations had been found, the club was designing for the history of Leipzig by the architect Franz Drechsler a tomb. Inaugurated on October 18, 1899 time compared to the former entrance Theresa Street consists of an erratic boulder with the inscription " friend and enemy united in death. " And a smaller pillow stone that marks the grave area behind the memorial stone.