Friedhof Solln, Cemetery in Solln district, Munich, Germany.
Friedhof Solln is a cemetery in the Solln district with a rectangular layout enclosed by walls and a wooden crucifix at its center. The grounds contain around 420 burial spaces arranged across the enclosed area.
This cemetery opened in 1883 after groundbreaking in 1879, created to replace the aging parish cemetery of Saint John the Baptist. The new grounds served the expanding local community that had outgrown the previous burial site.
The memorial plaque on the cemetery building honours sculptor August Drumm (1862–1904), whose grave in Solln was later levelled. The bronze Christ head on it was made by Drumm himself in 1902. Burials still take place here when old graves are released, and the grounds are maintained by the old part of the Munich Waldfriedhof.
The cemetery is not permanently staffed and is administered together with the Waldfriedhof Solln by the old section of the Munich Waldfriedhof. It lies at Friedhofweg 1, just south of the Catholic parish church of St. Johann Baptist. Burials still take place when old graves become free.
The grave of sculptor August Drumm no longer exists; a bronze relief of a Christ head that he made in 1902 is mounted on the cemetery building at the entrance instead. The mathematician Walther von Dyck lies in grave 3-2-163/164, and the dancer Senta Maria Schmid shares grave M-43 with the behavioural researcher Bastian Schmid.
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