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Month: April 2025
Mainz main cemetery
A row of so-called portal crypts (Portalgruften), which are typical of the Mainz main cemetery. Above ground, they consist of a barred portal that is supported at the back. A steep staircase leads through a usually barred door in the portal wall to the crypt below. This can be clearly seen in the second crypt … Read more
Wiesbaden North Cemetery
The tomb of John Goldenberg (*24.08.1832 †27.09.1882) in the early morning with the gatekeeper’s house and the main portal in the background and of the officer and writer Alfred Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden (*04.07.1848 in Stuttgart †18.04.1887 in Wiesbaden) and his wife Lucy Fleischer (*26.06.1880 †24.05.1913). Another view of the toimb of Alfred Adelmann von Adelmannsfeldenand … Read more
Predecessors of Wiesbaden’s North Cemetery
The area that later became Wiesbaden was already settled by the Romans around the birth of Christ. Burials of Roman, Frankish and Alemannic origin dating until the 6th century have been found at various locations in the present-day city. Around 830, a source mentions a place called Wisibada. It is also known that there was … Read more