Nordpark Cemetery Monuments, Magdeburg

The North Park in Magdeburg is a 10-acre public green area in the district of Old Neustadt. It was created in 1827 to plans by Peter Josef Lenné as a cemetery. It is noteworthy that only lying graves were allowed. In 1889 the cemetery was converted into a public square. Still today in the park grave stone slabs are distributed, partly by formerly famous Magdeburgers. A larger contiguous complex also forms a Soviet cemetery with 1652 graves, which was originally intended for the fallen Soviet soldiers of the Second World War, but was used until 1966 for deceased soldiers of the Magdeburg garrison.

The park is freely accessible. He is very popular with the students of the adjacent Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. Above all, the public barbecue areas in the park are in great demand in summer.A natural spectacle is every year in spring the flowering of blue stars (Scilla siberica) in the entire park area.(Https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordpark_Magdeburg)

The park was originally created as a municipal cemetery. Since there was no suitable space within the fortress walls, it was decided in 1824 to build a cemetery outside the walls of the old town of Magdeburg.Garden director Peter Joseph Lenné was commissioned to plan it. The North Cemetery was opened in 1827. After the opening of two other cemeteries in the south and west of the city, the North Cemetery was closed again in 1898. It was then converted into a public park.After the Second World War, the north-eastern part of the park was used as a cemetery for fallen Soviet soldiers. Some of the original graves from the original North Cemetery still exist, some of them belonging to important Magdeburg personalities of the 19th century.Particularly worth mentioning are the monument to the mayor of Magdeburg, August Wilhelm Francke, on whose initiative the North Cemetery was built, and the monument to the French revolutionary Lazare Carnot, who spent the last years of his life in Magdeburg after his exile.The most beautiful season in the Nordpark is spring, when countless Scilla flowers transform the meadows into a huge blue carpet of flowers.
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