The Alter Südfriedhof (Old South Cemetery) also known as "Alter Südlicher Friedhof" is a cemetery in Munich, Germany. It was founded by Duke Albrecht V as a plague cemetery in 1563 about half a kilometer south of the Sendlinger Gate between Thalkirchner and Pestalozzistraße.
The cemetery was established in 1563, during the reign of Albert V, Duke of Bavaria, for victims of the plague and located outside the city gates. It was also the burial ground of the dead from the Sendling uprising of 1705, in which over 1100 were killed after they had surrendered to the troops of Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor. From 1788 to 1867 it was the single collective burial ground for the dead of the city.
From 1788 to 1868 it was the only cemetery for the whole metropolitan area of Munich, which is why it contains the graves of several prominent Munich figures of that period.
Max Emanuel Ainmiller - painter, 1807–1870Franz Xaver von Baader - philosopher, 1765–1841Jakob Bauer - first mayor, 1787–1854Theodor von Bischoff - anatomist and physician, 1807–1882Gottlieb Bodmer - painter and lithographer, 1804-1837Roman Anton Boos - sculptor, 1730–1810Friedrich Bürklein - architect, 1813–1872Adolf Christen - theatre director and producer, 1811–1883Anna Dandler - actress, 1862–1930Ernst Friedrich Diez - opera singer, 1805–1892Sophie Diez - opera singer, 1820–1887Johann Georg von Dillis - landscape painter, 1759–1841Ignaz von Döllinger - theologian, 1799–1890Johann Georg Edlinger - painter, 1741–1819Alexander Eibner - painter and painting tutor, 1862–1935Kaspar Ett - composer, 1788–1847Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer - traveller, journalist, politician and historian, 1790–1861Carl von Fischer - architect, 1782–1820Ludwig Foltz - architect, sculptor and illustrator, 1809–1867Joseph von Fraunhofer - optician and inventor, 1787–1826Franz Xaver Gabelsberger - shorthand inventor, 1789–1849Friedrich von Gärtner - architect, 1792–1847Sebastian Gaigl - founder of the city orphanage, 1799–1871Joseph Görres - publicist, 1776–1848Charlotte von Hagn - actress (appears in the Gallery of Beauties), 1809–1891Johann von Halbig - sculptor, 1814–1882August von Hauner - teacher and professor, 1811–1884Peter von Hess - painter, 1792–1871Wilhelm von Kaulbach - history painter, 1805–1878Leo von Klenze - architect, 1784–1864Franz von Kobell - mineralogist and Bavarian / Palatinate dialect poet, 1803–1882Alexander von Kotzebue - Russo-German battle-painter, 1815–1889Ludwig Lange - architect and painter, 1808–1868Georg Leib - Royal Councillor of Commerce and scaffolding specialist, 1846-1910Justus Freiherr von Liebig - chemist and natural scientist, 1803–1873Ferdinand von Miller - member of the Dt. Reichstag, 1813–1887Carl Friedrich Neumann - Sinologist, 1793–1870Eugen Napoleon Neureuther - painter, draughtsman and etcher, 1806–1882Johann Nepomuk von Nussbaum - surgeon, 1829–1890Georg Simon Ohm - physicist, 1789–1854Max von Pettenkofer - important physician, 1818–1901Ludwig von der Pfordten - Bavaria's Ministerpräsident, 1811–1880Christian Pram-Henningsen - Danish painter, 1846–1892Siegmund von Pranckh - general and Defence Minister, 1821–1888Georg Friedrich von Reichenbach - inventor and engineer, 1772–1826Josef Gabriel Rheinberger - composer and music teacher from Liechtenstein, 1839–1901Karl Rottmann - landscape painter, 1798–1830Eduard Schleich the Elder - painter, 1813–1874Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell - landscape gardener, 1750–1823Ludwig Schwanthaler - sculptor, 1802–1848Moritz von Schwind - painter, 1804–1871Helene Sedlmayr - symbol of Schönen Münchnerin in the Gallery of Beauties, 1813–1898Franz von Seitz - painter, lithographer and costume painter, 1817-1883Otto Seitz - painter and teacher, 1846–1912Alois Senefelder - inventor of lithography, 1771–1834Johann Nepomuk Sepp - historian and politician, 1816–1909Carl Spitzweg - painter and apothecary, 1808–1885Carl August von Steinheil - physicist, 1801-1870Friedrich Wilhelm von Thiersch - "Praeceptor Bavariae", 1784–1860Gustav Vorherr - architect, 1778–1847Klara Ziegler - actress and theatre founder, 1844–1909Anton Zwengauer - landscape painter, 1810-1884The cemetery today serves as an Art and Cultural history monument, and is open to the public as an official Munich park. Most of the monuments, which suffered from exposure to weather and pollution, have been renovated and cleaned, in a three-year project (2004–2007). The St. Stephan's church has also been renovated.
