| Hauptfriedhof Braunschweig | |
| Established: | 1887 |
| Country: | Germany |
| Location: | Braunschweig |
| Coordinates: | 52.2572°N 10.5597°W |
| Type: | Protestant cemetery |
| Owner: | Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brunswick |
| Size: | 43 ha |
| Website: | The official website |
| Findagraveid: | 2212453 |
The Braunschweig Main Cemetery (German: Der Braunschweiger Hauptfriedhof) on Helmstedter street is a historic, church-owned and operated Lutheran cemetery located in the city of Braunschweig, in Germany. With a land area of approximately 43 ha, it is the second largest church-owned Christian cemetery in Germany, after the Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery near Potsdam. The cemetery is operated by the administration of the Evangelical Lutheran Provost Association of Braunschweiger Land. The cemetery ground contains two residential buildings built for the cemetery manager and gardener at the main entrance which is used as the headquarters of the cemetery administration today, a neo-Gothic chapel, as well as a crematorium facility established in 1911.[1]
The Central Cemetery of Braunschweig was inaugurated on October 1, 1887, by Mayor Wilhelm Pockels and the Lutheran provost General-Superintendent Wilhelm Beste consecrated the burial ground, along with the chapel. The first burial recorded was of the master baker Friedrichs on October 4.[2] Braunschweig Main Cemetery has since replaced the old Protestant cemeteries of the individual Lutheran parishes of Braunschweig which were running out of burial space. The main cemetery complex houses the Protestant cemetery administration along with the Evangelical Lutheran cemetery chapel which was built in Gothic-Revival style by the architect Ludwig Winter, and a ceremony hall for funerals. A new pipe organ was installed at the chapel in 1962.[3]
The cemetery is the final resting place of many renowned personalities and prominent figures, including architects, composers, writers and artists.
List is sorted in order of the year of death.