Old St. John's Cemetery

Leipzig's oldest municipal cemetery, with its green ephemeral tendrils, ornate gravestones and old trees, has an enchanted atmosphere that invites lovers of history and romance to linger. Directly behind the Grassi museums is the historic Johannisfriedhof cemetery with its eventful history and the graves of many famous personalities. As early as 1536, Duke Georg appointed this place as an official burial ground and since then a lot has happened in Leipzig, to which the cemetery bears witness. Today, burials no longer take place here and the cemetery serves as a monument to Leipzig's history, from music to science and politics. Among the famous personalities whose graves can still be visited here today are the museum founder Franz Dominic Grassi, Richard Wagner's mother as well as his sister and Luther's companion Dr. Heinrich Stromer von Auerbach.