Cemeteries

Chronology of the Jena North Cemetery

• 1884 First municipal cemetery (previously Johannisfriedhof at the Friedenskirche)
• 1886 Eight square burial plots for earth burial in rows, surrounded by outer graves and the urn grove (UH) I and II, are created. The designer was the garden inspector Carl Ludwig Heinrich Maurer. 300 lime trees were planted along the main paths and over 100 chestnut trees were planted starting from Hufelandweg.
• 1887 Construction of a mortuary and cemetery chapel (celebration hall) in neoclassical style - clinker brick building made of local limestone and Pirna sandstone (master builder: Theodor Hartmann, architect: Carl Timmler)
• 1889 Cemetery and burial regulations for the first municipal cemetery
• 1889 First burial, closure of the Johannis cemetery (burials in existing gravesites until 1950)
• 1894 Foundation of the "Association for Cremation" (Chairman: pathologist Prof. Leubuscher supported by zoologist and natural philosopher Ernst Haeckel)
• 1897 Construction of the crematorium (the fifth in Germany)
• 1898 First cremation, first urn burial and second cremation (William Haak, Urnenhain I)
• 1906 Takeover of the crematorium by the city of Jena
• 1909 Connection of the crematorium with the ceremonial hall and construction of a cremation facility and second cremation oven
• 1910 Expansion of the cemetery begins, according to plans by city gardener Jakob Wychram, to include today's burial plots 9 - 14 and Urnenhain II.
• 1914-1918 Graves of honor for 276 soldiers of the First World War who died in Jena military hospitals in field 11
• 1918 Expansion of the cemetery to include burial plots 17 - 20 according to designs by cemetery inspector Ludwig Gierig
• 1925 New fields 21 - 24 laid out by emergency workers
• 1921-1926 Design of urn grove III according to designs by cemetery inspector Gustav Diekmann
• 1931-1939 Design of urn grove IV
• 1943-1945 Burial of the deceased of World War II in fields 7b, 16 and 27
• 1950 Creation of the municipal business enterprise (KWU)
• 1958 Construction of the bridge over the Munketal valley
• 1965 Merger of VEG Stadtgärtnerei, Versorgungs- und Dienstleistungsbetrieb Friedhof, Park- und Grünanlagen to form VEB (K) Landschaftsgestaltung
• 1966 First urn community facility in Urnenhain IV
• 1972 Integration of the municipal cemeteries into VEB (K) Stadtwirtschaft
• 1976 Construction of a 30 m high industrial chimney for the crematorium
• 1987 Reconstruction of the crematorium and cemetery hall
• 1991 Foundation of the garden and cemetery office, construction of a new social building for the gardeners, reconstruction of the ceremony halls in the outdoor cemeteries
• 1991/1992 Redesign of urn grove IIIb
• 1994 Construction of the urn communal facilities in urn grove IV field 10, reconstruction of the war graves with the help of Bundeswehr soldiers
• 1995 Complete renovation of the administration building
• 1996 First set of honorary graves
• 1997 Reconstruction of Field 4
• 1998 Installation of a filter system in the crematorium
• 1999 Extension with the urn community Field 17
• 2000 Forecourt of the crematorium; extension with the row grave field 19
• 2001 Administration forecourt
• 2002 Expansion of Field 2 with burial plots of choice
• 2003 Retaining wall parking lot, field 18
• 2003 Integration into municipal service in July
• 2004 Lindenbrunnenplätze - gardener-maintained urn gravesites in the North Cemetery with metal artwork by Fleischmann (Weimar) for UGA in the urn grove and limestone sculpture by Neuhäuser (Gröben)
• 2005 Forecourt of the ceremonial hall
• 2011 Urn niches with 63 spaces in field 7a
• 2014 Tree graves in field 12 (8 urn graves around an ornamental apple tree, 18 young trees) and near-natural burial in UHIV field 11
• 2015 Construction of a new crematorium with cremation facility on the grounds of the North Cemetery
• 2016 Expansion of the urn niche facility in field 7a
• 2017 Muslim burial in field 30
• 2018 Expansion of the urn niche facility in field 7a
• 2019 Urn community with names and perennial planting in field 6 C
• 2019 Expansion of the natural burial area by 180 trees
• 2019 Construction of two urn walls with 120 urn niches in UHIV/12
• 2022 Expansion of the urn niches in UHIV/12 by 180 niches
• 2022 Creation of new care graves in field 4