🏛 Volkovo Lutheran Cemetery

наб. реки Волковки (вход с набережной)

A quiet "German" cemetery with Masonic symbols on the gravestones.

The land for the cemetery was allotted in 1773, although the Petrikirche congregation had asked for it as early as 1741.
The first burial here was the merchant Johann Gebhard Bretfeld, and for a long time the cemetery was called Bretfeld's.
The Petrikirche introduced a coordinate system for the graves: its archive lets you find the burial places of at least 40,000 people.
In 1900 new, taller gates were built — hearses had grown taller by then.
In the 1920s the wooden buildings were taken apart for firewood, and the gates and chapel for brick.
In the 1990s a German society documented more than 2,000 monuments here.

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