Stadtfriedhof (Göttingen)
The old city cemetery in Göttingen is a historic cemetery with graves of famous scholars, including Max Planck and Otto Hahn.
Location and History
The cemetery is located on the edge of the Göttingen City West. The site has an area of about 36 acres, on which there are about 40,000 Earth and urn.
Due to growing population of the decision in 1879 under the Göttingen Mayor George Merkel taken, at the city limits at that place Grone, now a district of Göttingen, to create a new cemetery grounds. As an example of the city architect Heinrich Gerber was the Stuttgart cemetery. The first section, which covered an area of 7.5 hectares, was inaugurated on 15 December 1881, replaced the Albani cemetery as a burial ground from. Already at the turn of the century was the construction of a cemetery chapel, and the first enlargement of the area, which should five more will follow by 1963. In 1975, the burial place of Göttingen was moved from the city cemetery on the newly created park cemetery Junker mountain. Since then, only existing burial rights are taken into account at the Göttingen City Cemetery. A multiple times discussed transformation of the area into a park is not yet done. After no new tombs had been forgiven for decades, may since 2005 at the city cemetery to be buried again, due to unfavorable soil conditions, however, limited to urn burials.
Digger
On the Göttingen City Cemetery eight Nobel Prize winners are buried:
- 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 well-known personalities found at the city cemetery their final resting place:
- Friedrich Carl Andreas, Iranist and orientalist
- Lou Andreas - Salomé, essayist and psychoanalyst
- Carl Ludwig von Bar, criminal and international law teachers
- Georg Friedrich Calsow, politician, mayor of Göttingen
- Paul de Lagarde, cultural philosopher and orientalist
- Hermann Föge, lawyer and politician
- Moritz Heyne, medievalist and lexicographer
- David Hilbert, mathematicians
- Heinz Hilpert, actor and theater director
- Friedrich Hoffmann ( lawyer)
- Friedrich Hoßbach, General of Infantry
- Rudolf von Jhering, lawyer
- Bruno Karl August Jung, politician, mayor of Göttingen
- Gottfried Jungmichel, university teacher and politician
- Felix Klein, a mathematician
- Ernst Wilhelm Klinkerfues, astronomer
- Gustav Korte, classical archaeologist
- Walter Meyerhoff, lawyer and politician
- Herman Nohl, educator and philosopher
- Hermann Oncken, historians
- Ludwig Prandtl, engineer and physicist
- Friedrich Julius Rosenbach, physicians
- Max Runge, gynecologist
- Wolfgang Sartorius von Walter Hausen, geologist
- Karl Schwarzschild, astronomer and physicist
- Carl Ludwig Siegel, mathematicians
- Gustav Tammann, chemists
- Heinrich Tammann, physician and university teacher
- Hannah Vogt, historian
- Wilhelm Eduard Weber, a physicist
- Friedrich Wohler, chemists
- Konrat Ziegler, classical scholar, Righteous Among the Nations