Cemetery description
The Old Cemetery is a park cemetery in the state capital of Schwerin. It is located on the southern Obotritenring in the Weststadt district and covers an area of around 28 hectares; it is one of the early examples of a park cemetery in northern Germany and was inaugurated in 1877.
In addition to the special garden design, the network of paths, the trees and shrubs, it is the large number of culturally and art-historically valuable gravestones and tombs, most of which were created between 1870 and 1940, that make the cemetery so special. This also includes the funeral chapels and the cemetery chapel, which were integrated into the park landscape as architectural highlights. The graves of well-known personalities include: Georg Adolph Demmler, architect, court architect (1804-1886), "Rudolph Karstadt, department store entrepreneur (1856-1944), "Ernst Lübbert, soldier of the First World War (1874-1915) "Bertha Klingberg, florist and honorary citizen of the city of Schwerin (1898-2005).
Burial
4,142 victims of war and tyranny rest in the Old Cemetery.
War cemetery..
Today's cemetery of the First World War in the Old Cemetery is the cemetery of honor. A sculpture of a soldier, created by the sculptor Wilhelm Wandschneider in 1936, stands against a wall here. During the First World War, 163 dead were laid to rest in Schwerin.
Between 1945 and 1946, 264 German victims of the epidemic were buried in front of the burial ground by Christ.
2,338 soldiers and civilians, including Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Czech and Yugoslavian victims, rest on the cemetery for the war dead of the Second World War on Von-Flotow-Straße. The names of the deceased are listed on plaques and symbolic crosses have been placed on the graves.
421 war victims, including Poles, Italians, Yugoslavs, Ukrainians, Hungarians and Czechs, rest at the high cross opposite the mourning hall, a central memorial and event location (e.g. National Day of Mourning). There are individual and collective graves in other burial grounds; the number of people buried here is not known.
