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Memorial or cemetery · 1773

Old St. John's cemetery

Old St. John's cemetery

Old St John's cemetery, in the south-east of Tartu's Raadi cemeteries, opened on 5 November 1773 after Catherine II banned burials in churches. It served the German and Estonian congregations of St John's and the Russian church, and the chapels of mayor Jacob Friedrich Teller, of the Rauch-Seidlitz family and of Carl Klein still stand among the graves. It is a roll-call of Estonian learning and letters: the naturalist Karl Ernst von Baer, the poet Betti Alver, the linguist Paul Ariste, and Friedrich Robert Faehlmann and Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, the two doctors behind the epic 'Kalevipoeg'.

Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today

Eesti keeles

Raadi kalmistute kaguosas asuv Vana-Jaani kalmistu avati 5. novembril 1773, pärast seda kui Katariina II keelas kirikutesse matmise. See teenis Jaani kiriku saksa ja eesti kogudust ning vene kirikut, ja haudade vahel seisavad endiselt linnapea Jacob Friedrich Telleri, Rauch-Seidlitzide ja Carl Kleini kabelid. Kalmistu on nagu Eesti teaduse ja kirjanduse nimekiri: siin puhkavad loodusteadlane Karl Ernst von Baer, luuletaja Betti Alver, keeleteadlane Paul Ariste ning Friedrich Robert Faehlmann ja Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald – kaks arsti, kelle tööst sündis „Kalevipoeg”.

Map of the area around Old St. John's cemetery
58.39321° N, 26.72796° E · Map: Maa- ja Ruumiamet

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_St._John%27s_Cemetery ↗

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