The Alte Johannesfriedhof (Old Johannes Graveyard)
Is not only a place of peace and reflection, but also a living history book. Founded in 1278 (last burial 1883), it is now an oasis of peace near the city centre. Here you can see, e.g., the graves of Brockhaus, Reclam, Tauchnitz, Teubner, Rosina Wagner and Rosalia Marbach (mother and sister of Richard Wagner), as well as Anna Katharina Kanne (nee Schönkopf), Goethe’s Leipzig girlfriend. Architectural gems are the baroque tomb of the Baumgärtner family and the Egyptian column of the grave of the Egyptologist F.A.W. Spohn.