Alter Friedhof
The Alter Friedhof lies behind a substantial wall in Memmingen, closed as a cemetery in 1920 and green ever since. Its story starts with a space problem in 1529. The churchyards at St. Martin, Unser Frauen and the hospital had filled up, so the imperial city laid out this ground. It took the site of the former Schottenkloster St. Nikolaus, and burials continued there for four centuries.
Baroque monuments mark the family graves of old patrician houses: von Grimmel, von Wachter and von Zoller. They held office as mayors, councillors and judges from the Middle Ages into the nineteenth century. Craftsmen and citizen families rest here too. Some of their stones give direct glimpses of the city's history. Family graves so well preserved inside a park are considered a rarity in Bavaria.
Guided tours walk you through the biographies of the merchants and manufacturers buried here. The whole site, wall, graves and greenery alike, stands under full monument protection.
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