The Braunschweig Main Cemetery () on Helmstedter street is a historic, church-owned and operated

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cemetery located in the city of

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, in

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. With a land area of approximately 43 ha, it is the second largest church-owned Christian cemetery in Germany, after the Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery near

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. The cemetery is operated by the administration of the ''Evangelical Lutheran Provost Association of Braunschweiger Land''. The cemetery ground contains two residential buildings built for the cemetery manager and gardener at the main entrance which is used as the headquarters of the cemetery administration today, a neo-Gothic chapel, as well as a

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facility established in 1911.

History and description

The Central Cemetery of Braunschweig was inaugurated on October 1, 1887, by Mayor Wilhelm Pockels and the Lutheran provost General- Superintendent Wilhelm Beste consecrated the burial ground, along with the chapel. The first burial recorded was of the ''master baker Friedrichs'' on October 4. Braunschweig Main Cemetery has since replaced the old Protestant cemeteries of the individual Lutheran parishes of Braunschweig which were running out of burial space. The main cemetery complex houses the Protestant cemetery administration along with the Evangelical Lutheran cemetery chapel which was built in Gothic-Revival style by the architect Ludwig Winter, and a ceremony hall for funerals. A new

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was installed at the chapel in 1962. The cemetery is the final resting place of many renowned personalities and prominent figures, including architects, composers, writers and artists.

Notable burials

List is sorted in order of the year of death. * Hermann Blumenau (1819–1899), German

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in the state of Santa Catarina,

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* Wilhelm Raabe (1831–1910), novelist *

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(1831–1916),

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who made important contributions to

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(particularly ring theory), and the axiomatic foundations of arithmetic * Oswald Berkhan (1834–1917), physician * Hans Sommer (1837–1922), composer and mathematician * Käthe Buchler (1876–1930), photographer * Rudolf Huch (1862–1943), Brazilian-born German jurist, essayist and author * Walter Dexel (1890-1973), painter, commercial graphic designer *

Norbert Schultze Norbert Arnold Wilhelm Richard Schultze (26 January 1911 in Braunschweig, Brunswick – 14 October 2002 in Bad Tölz) was a prolific Germany, German composer of Film score, film music and a member of the NSDAP and of Joseph Goebbels' staff dur ...

(1911-2002),

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Gallery

File:Hauptfriedhof Braunschweig.png, Map of the cemetery File:BS Mausoleum Buchterkirchen.JPG, A family mausoleum on the cemetery ground File:Braunschweig Hauptfriedhof Kapelle Suedosten (Brunswyk 2014).JPG File:BS Hauptfriedhof.JPG File:BS Feierhalle 1.JPG, Ceremony Hall File:BS Mausoleum Bautler 2.JPG, Bautler mausoleum built in 1891 File:Grabstätte Franz Trinks in Braunschweig (2013).JPG File:Bockler Erich Grab Braunschweig-Hauptfriedhof Brunswyk (2014).JPG File:Braunschweig Hauptfriedhof Richard Dedekind 01.jpg,

burial site File:Grabstein von Hermann Blumenau - Braunschweiger Hauptfriedhof.jpg, Tomb of Hermann Blumenau File:BS_Wilhelm_Raabe_Grab.JPG, Wilhelm Raabe's resting place File:Grabstätte Hugo Retemeyer.JPG

References

External links

* {{Find a Grave cemetery, 2212453, Braunschweig Hauptfriedhof
Official website

Map of the cemetery
Cemeteries in Germany Lutheran cemeteries in Germany Cemeteries established in the 1880s Buildings and structures in Braunschweig