Bartholomäusfriedhof, Göttingen, Cemetery and architectural heritage monument in Göttingen, Germany.

The Bartholomäusfriedhof is a cemetery and architectural heritage site in Göttingen located north of the old town, situated between Weender Landstraße and Maschmühlenweg streets. The grounds contain around 185 preserved grave markers from various periods, many of which have undergone restoration work in recent years.

The cemetery was laid out in 1747 outside the city walls on the site of the former St. Bartholomew leper hospital, following Enlightenment ideas that burials should move out of the city. Initially regarded as a poor people's cemetery, it soon attracted wealthy university members who built ornate tombs. It was enlarged to its present size in 1840, replaced by the new Stadtfriedhof in 1881 and closed in 1883.

The name Bartholomäusfriedhof only became common in the 20th century; earlier records call it Neuer Kirchhof, Weender Kirchhof or St. Johannis und St. Jacobikirchhof. The site began as a poor people's cemetery, yet university members later built ornate tombs, and the surviving markers still show that contrast.

The cemetery lies north of the old town, between Weender Landstraße and Maschmühlenweg, opposite the university's Humanities Centre. The enclosing stone walls and gate were moved here in the 1950s from the 82er-Kaserne at the Geismartor under city building director Karl Grabenhorst. Many inscriptions can no longer be read, so bring a plan or list of names if you want to find specific graves.

The enclosing stone walls and the iron gate did not originally belong to the cemetery: in the 1950s they were moved here from the 82er-Kaserne at the Geismartor under city building director Karl Grabenhorst. A 1944 air raid on Maschmühlenweg damaged part of the grounds, which still held 420 graves at the war's end.