Rural cemetery

A Park Cemetery is a cemetery complex, which is based in shaping the concept of the English landscape garden. Elements are in an irregular routing, sculptured hills and ponds and forest-like areas. As the oldest park cemetery applies Père Lachaise in Paris, which was created in 1804. There were, however, in the U.S. incurred rural cemetries during the early 19th century, such as the 1831 Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston created that had a model for Europe. The first initiative of its kind on the North American continent began in the late 18th century, when in New Haven without church involvement 31 families at their own expense an area lying outside the city bought up to where a 2.4 -acre cemetery ( Grove Street Cemetery ) to set up. This site was later remodeled by the plans of Henry Dearborn and Alexander Wadsworth into a landscape park.

Cemeteries were created with park-like parts in Germany before 1850. The first fully landscaped as parks particular importance are the South Cemetery in Kiel from 1869 and Rien Berger Cemetery in Bremen from 1875. Became the 1877 designed and applicable today as the world's largest Park Cemetery Cemetery Ohlsdorf in Hamburg. In North America, Park cemeteries spread 1830-1860. Their role models as the Père Lachaise Cemetery and the English garden design served. Characteristic design elements were there hills, valleys, watercourses and artificial lakes. In England enlisted as one of the first garden specialists John Claudius Loudon for the new cemetery design concept, after which they can be used in the future as well as a freely accessible parks.

The following additional cemeteries are referred to as Park cemeteries or were planned as a park cemetery:

  • Park Cemetery in Bad Kissingen Bad Kissingen
  • Park Cemetery Lichterfelde in Berlin
  • Park Cemetery in Berlin Neukölln
  • Forest Cemetery in Berlin Dahlem
  • Blankenburg cemetery in Berlin
  • Central Cemetery Friedrichsfelde in Berlin
  • II Friedhof Eythstraße in Berlin
  • St. John's Cemetery in Bielefeld
  • Park Cemetery in Essen- Huttrop
  • Öjendorf cemetery in Hamburg
  • Main cemetery of Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe
  • Park Cemetery in Eichhof Kronshagen
  • Park Cemetery in Meiningen Meiningen
  • South Cemetery in Leipzig
  • Park Cemetery Lutzmannsburg in Lutzmannsburg - Austria

Among the most important park cemeteries outside Germany include:

  • Mount Auburn Cemetery ( Cambridge / Massachusetts, USA, 1831)
  • Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia, 1836)
  • Green-Wood Cemetery ( Brooklyn / New York, 1838)
  • Little Ilford (London, 1856)
  • Mirogoj (Zagreb)
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