Welcome to the citizens' group of the cemetery "Innerer Neustädter Friedhof"!

Embedded in an urban quarter between buildings in a turn-of-a-century style and railways, the cemetery provides a treasure of different, especially baroque tombstones as well as an ecological hideaway and park-like place of calmness for the locals.

 
The cemetery shows a developed functional unit, consisting of a funeral hall, office, gate with a house, 17 baroque crypts and numerous tombstones of the baroque time and the 19th century.
All the large trees which we see now and which give the cemetery its structure are supposed to be a result of the planting on the graves and not of any landscape-architectonical planning.
The gravesites and tombstones introduced here represent only a part of the original inventory. They are partly in severe conditions but there is still a chance to save and restore them.

 
We consider historical cemeteries not only as a case of monumental heritage but also as our memory by thinking about the buried persons - famous or not - and the former time of our city and its quarters.
In contrast to the more famous monuments, it is our opinion that gravesites 'speak to us' more directly: to envision the death, the teariness about the loss, the believe in resurrection or the personal wish to have a place to remember. Death as a part of life concerns each human being. Especially historical cemeteries offer a place to think about rising and vanishing of life, a place for calmness and for a short rest in our hectic time.

 
We want to 'transform' the knowledge about the value of the "Innerer Neustädter Friedhof" into concrete help because the management has to carry out its daily tasks so that no time is left to organise any measures to save or even restore the gravesites.