Castle Cemetery, Bonn

The Castle Cemetery is a cemetery attached to Bad Godesberg's most popular landmark - the Godesburg Castle. The cemetery was created in 1805 but had to be extended several times thoughout its existence. The cemetery is famous due to the fact that it hosts the graves of many important personalities, as well as monuments and even mausoleums created by talented and famous sculptors, for example the 1912 tomb representing the Mother of the Earth by Simatscheck. The most important graves with tombs are those of Carl August von Groote - mayor of the city between 1857 and 1888, Theodor Minartz - parish priest of the city between 1857 and 1889 and Paul Kemp, famous actor who lived in Bad Godesberg.