Name: Old City Cemetery in Göttingen
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1. Gänseliesel Fountain – Kornmarkt Half-Timbered Houses loop from Grone

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2. South Shore of Kiessee – View of Göttinger Kiessee loop from Grone-Süd

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3. View of Göttingen – Old City Cemetery in Göttingen loop from Göttingen

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03:51

130m

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Robert von der Haune

July 8, 2021

The old city cemetery in Göttingen is a historic cemetery with graves of important scholars, including Max Planck, Max Born, David Hilbert, Friedrich Wöhler and Otto Hahn.

The cemetery is on Kasseler Landstrasse on the outskirts of Göttingen Weststadt. The area has an area of around 36 hectares, on which there are around 40,000 earth and urn graves.

Due to the growing population, in 1879 the mayor of Göttingen, Georg Merkel, decided to build a new cemetery on the city limits of the former town of Grone, which is now a district of Göttingen. The Stuttgart cemetery served as a model for city planning officer Heinrich Gerber. The first section, which covered an area of 7.5 hectares, was inaugurated on December 15, 1881 and replaced the Albani and Bartholomew cemetery as burial places. A cemetery chapel was not built until the turn of the century, at the same time as the first expansion of the area, which was to be followed by five more by 1963.

Since 1975, Göttingen has been buried in the newly laid out park cemetery Junkerberg. Since then, only existing burial rights have been taken into account at the Göttingen city cemetery. A redesign of the area into a park, which has been discussed several times, is gradually being implemented in areas. After no new grave sites had been allocated for decades, burials have been possible again in the city cemetery since 2005, but restricted to urn burials due to unfavorable soil conditions.

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Nicolette

August 17, 2021

140 year old park-like city cemetery with old graves, old trees.

Worth seeing among others:

The chapel, the Nobel Rondel or the war graves.

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Elevation 160 m

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Location: Lower Saxony, Germany

Old City Cemetery in Göttingen

1. Gänseliesel Fountain – Kornmarkt Half-Timbered Houses loop from Grone

2. South Shore of Kiessee – View of Göttinger Kiessee loop from Grone-Süd

3. View of Göttingen – Old City Cemetery in Göttingen loop from Göttingen

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