St. John's Cemetery () ) is the second cemetery of the same name in

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, Saxony, Germany. It is located in the Tolkewitz district of the city. With its 24.6 hectares, the

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Johannisfriedhof was the largest cemetery in Dresden until the municipal

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Heidefriedhof was established in 1934.

History and description

The old burial ground of St. John's was inaugurated in 1575 and had to be expanded in 1633, 1680 and 1721 due to plague. Many prominent Dresden residents such as the builder of the iconic landmark church Frauenkirche, architect George Bähr, and the greatest Saxon

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builder,

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found their final resting place at the old burial ground. The cemetery was closed in 1814 due to lack of space and sanitary reasons, and thus neglected cemetery fell into disrepair. For this reason, the city management decided to relocate the cemetery in 1854, despite citizens' petitions and heavy protests. In 1875, the Protestant church acquired land in the Tolkewitz district in order to establish a new cemetery here to replace the old abandoned cemeteries of the

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St. Johannes, Frauenkirche and

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parishes in Dresden which ran out of space. The new burial ground was consecrated on May 16, 1881, by provost General- Superintendent Moritz Franz and the first burial was recorded on July 17 of the same year. The designated historic landmark chapel with an impressive dome was built by Paul Wallot in 1894 in the

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style. A jury led by Lutheran

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Margot Käßmann awarded the Johannisfriedhof as the most beautiful cemetery in Germany on November 8, 2011.

Notable burials

* Prince Kraft of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen (1827-1892), Prussian general and nobleman * Franz Curti (1854-1898), Swiss-German opera composer *

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(1830-1900),

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and a

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dealer considered one of the largest in the world specialising in the collection and sale of

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s to museums, scientific institutions * Maximilian Messmacher (1842-1906), Russian-German architect * Grete Beier (1885-1908), the last woman who was publicly executed in the

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* Ludwig Hartmann (composer) (1836-1910), composer and music critic * August Toepler (1836-1912), chemist and physicist * Hartmuth Baldamus (1891-1917), World War I

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credited with 18 aerial victories * Christian Otto Mohr (1835-1918),

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* Martin Krause (mathematician) (1851-1920), mathematician * Georg Treu (1843-1921), Classical archaeologist * Woldemar von Seidlitz (1850-1922),

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n-born German

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* Hugo Richard Jüngst (1853-1923),

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and choir-leader * Vali von der Osten (1882-1923), soprano, sister of Eva von der Osten * Heinrich Ernemann (1850–1928) industrial camera maker, founder of Ernemann-Werke AG * Carl Georg Oscar Drude (1852-1933),

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* Rudolf Schilling (1859-1933), architect * Eva von der Osten (1881–1936),

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* Ferdinand Dorsch (1875-1938), painter, graphic artist * Cornelius Gurlitt (art historian) (1850-1938), architect and

* Hermann Ilgen (1856-1940), pharmacist, businessman and patron of art and sport * Karl Emil Scherz (1860-1945), architect * Walther Schieck (1874-1946), politician who served as the last Minister-President of

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during the

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* Adele Osterloh (1857-1946), poet * Margarethe Siems (1879-1952), operatic dramatic coloratura soprano and voice teacher * Eberhard Hempel (1886-1967),

, and professor at the

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specializing in the

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era * Heinz Knobloch (1926-2003), writer and journalist * Kurt Biedenkopf (1930-2021), jurist, academic and politician

Gallery

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References

External links

{{Commons category, Johannisfriedhof, Dresden
Official website of Ev. Lutheran Johannisfriedhof (in German)

Photo album and information (in German)
Cemeteries in Dresden Lutheran cemeteries in Germany Cemeteries established in the 1880s Landmarks in Germany Heritage sites in Saxony Tourist attractions in Dresden