Garden church and cemetery

Many a celebrity lies in the garden cemetery.

The church was built between 1887 and 1891 by the architect Rudolph Eberhard Hillebrand. The church is a Neo-Gothic hall church made of Deister sandstone and was consecrated on February 8, 1891. Many famous people are buried in the garden cemetery in front of it, including Charlotte Kestner. She was the inspiration for the character Lotte in Goethe’s *The Sorrows of Young Werther*.

For more information, please visit the Gartenkirche website.

You can find more information about the garden cemetery here.