The Notre-Dame Cemetery (, ), commonly known in Luxembourgish as the ("St. Nicholas Graveyard"), is located in the Limpertsberg district of Luxembourg City. It is the largest of the 14 cemeteries and graveyards managed by the Service Cimetières of the City of Luxembourg.
History After the Church of St. Nicholas in the city centre was torn down, and the seat of the St. Nicholas parish was transferred to the former Jesuit church (now the Cathedral), in 1779 the parish graveyard was moved outside the city walls to the Glacis. This was the origin of the name „Nikloskierfecht“.E. Feitler: Luxemburg, deine Heimatstadt. 2nd edition. Luxembourg 1954, p. 106. The new graveyard was on land near the Notre-Dame Chapel (German: , French: ), also called the (Luxembourgish for "New Gate Chapel").F. Lascombes: Chronik der Stadt Luxemburg: 1684-1795. Luxembourg 1988, p. 383f. This explains the official name of Notre-Dame Cemetery.
The new cemetery was essentially just an extension of a graveyard which had already existed by the chapel since 1691 and where those were buried who had been condemned to death but were not criminals, such as deserters. Two gardens were added to the old graveyard, one of which belonged to the chapel, while the other was the property of the Holy Ghost monastery.
Monuments There are three monuments at the Notre-Dame Cemetery: the National Monument of the Resistance and the Deportation, or , usually simply called the "Hinzert Cross" (Luxembourgish: ) the Monument to the Luxembourgish Unknown Legionary and the French Soldiers who died in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg in the Great War 1914-1918 the monument commemorating the “Klëppelkrich”, created by artist François Gillen at the initiative of publisher François Mersch, in collaboration with architect Paul Retter. It was erected in 1971 at the corner of Avenue de la Faïencerie and Allée des Résistants et Déportés. The monument commemorates the execution of 27 “Klëppelkriger” on the glacis of the Porte Neuve. They were opponents of the republican and anticlerical regime, as well as of Luxembourg’s annexation to France as the “Département des Forêts.”
Notable interments
Charles Bernhoeft (1859-1933), photographer Sophie de Bette Pierre Blanc (1872-1946), painter Martin Blum (1845-1924), priest and historian Victor Bodson (1902-1984), politician Melchior Bourg-Gemen (1861-1939) Thomas Byrne Pol Clemen (1861-1925) Pierre Clomes François-Charles Emmanuel Collin (1790-1851) Gérard Cravatte (1900-1967) Jules van Damme Alexandre Marius Dées de Sterio (1944-2006), professor, journalist Gaston Diderich (1884-1946), politician Adolphe Eberhard (1896-1941) Michel Engels (1851-1901), painter Victor Engels (1892-1962), architect and painter Eydt-Funck family grave (Jean-François Eydt, Pierre Funck and Paul Funck) Paul Eyschen (1841-1915), politician Jean-Baptiste Fallize (1844-1933) Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine (1787-1871) Léon de la Fontaine Jean-Baptiste Gellé (1777-1847) Therese Glaesener-Hartmann Willy Goergen (1867-1942) Bernard Graf (1831-) Bernard Groethuysen Nicolas Hemmen (1855) Ferdinand d'Huart (1857-1919) Michel Hülsemann (1885-1955), musician Antoine Jans (1868-1933), ceramics painter Joseph Junck (1839-1922) Auguste Klein (1866-1945) Alphonse Kemp (1872-1950), architect Jean-Pierre Ker (1900-1951), painter Evrard Ketten (1842-1912), horticulturalist Ernst Koch (1808-1858), poet William J. Kroll (1889-1873) Eugène Kurth (1868-1960) Guillaume Lefèvre Michel Lentz (1833–1893) Jean Logeling Edouard Luja Jean-Pierre Maeysz Nicolas Majerus Fernand Mertens (1872-1957), composer Metz family grave Léon Moulin Edmond Patzké (1844-1903) Antoine and Anne Pescatore-Feltz Ferdinand and Marie Joséphine Pescatore Charles-Auguste Praum Léopold Reichling Michel Rodange François Roeser Eugène Ruppert François Scheffer Étienne Schmit Charles Schmitz (1855-1907) Jean Schoenberg Nicolas Steffen Pierret (1830-1999) Michel Stoffel Joseph-Germain Strock Gaston Thorn Wilhelm Voigt (the "Captain of Köpenick") Jupp Wagner Batty Weber Paul Weber Nik Welter Lucien Wercollier Pierre Werner Auguste van Werveke Jacques Wester Guillaume Weydert Jean-Édouard Wolff (1851-1938) Henri Woquier (1852–1921 Jean Worré (1816–1901) Jean-Antoine Zinnen Ernest Vander Linden Albert Jean-Marie Baron Keucker de Watlet
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References
Further reading Kartheiser, R. 1973. "Den Nikloskierfech". In: Die Warte. Luxembourg. - Vol. 26 (1973), No. 25 (4 October), p. ; No. 27 (18 October), p. ; No. 28 (25 October), p. ; No. 29 (8 November), p. .
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