Old and New Annen Cemetery

The Old Annen Cemetery on Chemnitzer Straße is the third Annenfriedhof in Dresden and the oldest to survive. It was consecrated on 2 June 1848, and Christian Gottlieb Spieß designed it as a four-field layout modelled on the Trinitatisfriedhof. It covers 3.9 hectares with about 2,320 grave sites. An obelisk of 1849 commemorates 53 victims of the Dresden May Uprising, and another remembers more than 800 victims of the air raids. Those buried here include the painter Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, the literary scholar Hermann Hettner, the sculptor Robert Henze and Minna Wagner, the first wife of Richard Wagner.

The New Annen Cemetery on Kesselsdorfer Straße was consecrated on 23 June 1875 and covers 14.33 hectares. The garden architect Max Bertram planned it as a regular park, and Robert Wimmer, a pupil of Semper, designed the Neo-Renaissance entrance after Italian Camposanto cemeteries. Twenty-two family vaults survive in the arcades. Buried here are, among others, the industrialist Friedrich Siemens, the aviation pioneer Hermann Reichelt and the writer Emmy von Rhoden.

Both cemeteries were damaged in the Second World War. A mass grave at the New Annen Cemetery commemorates victims of the air raid of 17 April 1945. The New Annen Cemetery is a listed monument.