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, 1807–1870
Franz Xaver von Baader - philosopher, 1765–1841
Jakob Bauer - first mayor, 1787–1854
Theodor von Bischoff - anatomist and physician, 1807–1882
Gottlieb Bodmer - painter and lithographer, 1804-1837
Roman Anton Boos - sculptor, 1730–1810
Friedrich Bürklein - architect, 1813–1872
Adolf Christen - theatre director and producer, 1811–1883
Anna Dandler - actress, 1862–1930
Ernst Friedrich Diez - opera singer, 1805–1892
Sophie Diez - opera singer, 1820–1887
Johann Georg von Dillis - landscape painter, 1759–1841
Ignaz von Döllinger - theologian, 1799–1890
Johann Georg Edlinger - painter, 1741–1819
Alexander Eibner - painter and painting tutor, 1862–1935
Kaspar Ett - composer, 1788–1847
Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer - traveller, journalist, politician and historian, 1790–1861
Carl von Fischer - architect, 1782–1820
Ludwig Foltz - architect, sculptor and illustrator, 1809–1867
Joseph von Fraunhofer - optician and inventor, 1787–1826
Franz Xaver Gabelsberger - shorthand inventor, 1789–1849
Friedrich von Gärtner - architect, 1792–1847
Sebastian Gaigl - founder of the city orphanage, 1799–1871
Joseph Görres - publicist, 1776–1848
Charlotte von Hagn - actress (appears in the Gallery of Beauties), 1809–1891
Johann von Halbig - sculptor, 1814–1882
August von Hauner - teacher and professor, 1811–1884
Peter von Hess - painter, 1792–1871
Wilhelm von Kaulbach - history painter, 1805–1878
Leo von Klenze - architect, 1784–1864
Franz von Kobell - mineralogist and Bavarian / Palatinate dialect poet, 1803–1882
Alexander von Kotzebue - Russo-German battle-painter, 1815–1889
Ludwig Lange - architect and painter, 1808–1868
Georg Leib - Royal Councillor of Commerce and scaffolding specialist, 1846-1910
Justus Freiherr von Liebig - chemist and natural scientist, 1803–1873
Ferdinand von Miller - member of the Dt. Reichstag, 1813–1887
Carl Friedrich Neumann - Sinologist, 1793–1870
Eugen Napoleon Neureuther - painter, draughtsman and etcher, 1806–1882
Johann Nepomuk von Nussbaum - surgeon, 1829–1890
Georg Simon Ohm - physicist, 1789–1854
Max von Pettenkofer - important physician, 1818–1901
Ludwig von der Pfordten - Bavaria's Ministerpräsident, 1811–1880
Christian Pram-Henningsen - Danish painter, 1846–1892
Siegmund von Pranckh - general and Defence Minister, 1821–1888
Georg Friedrich von Reichenbach - inventor and engineer, 1772–1826
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger - composer and music teacher from Liechtenstein, 1839–1901
Karl Rottmann - landscape painter, 1798–1830
Eduard Schleich the Elder - painter, 1813–1874
Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell - landscape gardener, 1750–1823
Ludwig Schwanthaler - sculptor, 1802–1848
Moritz von Schwind - painter, 1804–1871
Helene Sedlmayr - symbol of Schönen Münchnerin in the Gallery of Beauties, 1813–1898
Franz von Seitz - painter, lithographer and costume painter, 1817-1883
Otto Seitz - painter and teacher, 1846–1912
Alois Senefelder - inventor of lithography, 1771–1834
Johann Nepomuk Sepp - historian and politician, 1816–1909
Carl Spitzweg - painter and apothecary, 1808–1885
Carl August von Steinheil - physicist, 1801-1870
Friedrich Wilhelm von Thiersch - "Praeceptor Bavariae", 1784–1860
Gustav Vorherr - architect, 1778–1847
Klara Ziegler - actress and theatre founder, 1844–1909
Anton Zwengauer - landscape painter, 1810-1884
The 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.
