Trauerhalle
Trauerhalle stands within Südfriedhof in Sachsenhausen, Frankfurt, where a Florentine Baroque façade marks a cemetery designed as a park. City inspector Koch designed the building, and construction followed in 1896.
Leopold Bode decorated the interior before wartime damage led to reconstruction in 1950. Established in 1868 across thirteen hectares, Südfriedhof holds about thirteen thousand graves, including German and French soldiers from the Franco-Prussian War, victims of both World Wars, and civilians killed in air raids.
Paul Andorff, Otto Bäppler, and Carlo Bohländer are among those buried beneath trees and paths recalling an English landscape garden. The cemetery, entrance building, memorials, and Trauerhalle all have protected historical status.
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