Stadtfriedhof (Göttingen)
The old ''Stadtfriedhof'' (City Cemetery) in Göttingen is a historic cemetery with graves of important scholars. It is the final resting place of no less than eight Nobel Prize winners: Max Born, Otto Hahn, Max von Laue, Walther Nernst, Max Planck, Otto Wallach, Adolf Windaus, Richard Zsigmondy and Manfred Eigen. Location and history The cemetery is located at the western edge of the city of Göttingen. The site has an area of about , on which there are approximately 60,000 burial and urn sites. Due to the growing population of Göttingen in 1879 Mayor Georg Merkel decided to create a new cemetery at the city limits at Grone, today a suburb of Göttingen. The first section, which covered an area of , was inaugurated in December 1881, and replaced the Albanifriedhof as a burial site. The cemetery chapel was designed by city architect Heinrich Gerber during the first expansion of the cemetery around the turn of the century. This was the first of five expansions, the last of whic ...
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