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Old Cemetery at the Ducal Crypt Chapel (English Garden, Meiningen)

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Old Cemetery at the Ducal Crypt Chapel (English Garden, Meiningen)

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Location: Meiningen, Landkreis Schmalkalden-Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany

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October 4, 2020

The town church of St. Martin was located here until 1837. From 1525, burials of important personalities of the city and nobles took place on the church field around the church. The old gravestones around today's crypt chapel still bear witness to this today.

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January 6, 2021

In the years 1835-39, Bernhard II. of Saxe-Meiningen had chief building officer A.W. Doebner erect a burial place in the English Garden for the ducal family. St. Martin's Church stood here until it was demolished in 1827.

In the vicinity of the crypt chapel, the site of the old cemetery, which is now closed, can still be seen on a few baroque and classicist tombstones. It was used as the main burial ground from the early 16th century until 1841.

(Source: meiningen.de)

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June 8, 2021

The ducal crypt chapel was built from 1835 to 1839 due to a lack of space in the princely crypt in Elisabethenburg Castle on the site of the church of St. Martin, which was demolished in 1827. For this purpose, Duke Bernhard II acquired the property of the former Gottesackerkirche from the city of Meiningen. The architect of the neo-Gothic building was August Wilhelm Döbner. At the location of the chapel was the former municipal cemetery, which was closed in 1841 and integrated into the English Garden together with the chapel. A large number of tombs surround the crypt chapel up to the present day. Some members of the Meiningen ducal house found their final resting place in the crypt itself. Among them were Duchess Charlotte Amalie von Hessen-Philippsthal, Duke Georg I and his wife Duchess Louise Eleonore zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg as well as Duke Bernhard II (1800-1882) and his wife Duchess Marie von Hessen-Kassel (1804-1888).

Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzogliche_Gruftkapelle_(Meiningen)

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Location: Meiningen, Landkreis Schmalkalden-Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany

Old Cemetery at the Ducal Crypt Chapel (English Garden, Meiningen)

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