North-center of the city, on the campus of Otto von Guericke University in the old Neustadt, you will find Nordpark. Originally the park was built as a municipal cemetery. Due to the lack of suitable space within the walls of the city's castle, a cemetery was planned in front of the walls of the old city of Magdeburg in 1824.
Planning was planned by the park manager Peter Joseph Lenny, and in 1827 the northern cemetery was opened. After the opening of two other cemetery facilities in the south and west of the city north of the cemetery was closed again in 1898. After that, turned into a public park.
After World War II, the northeastern part of the park was used as a cemetery for fallen Soviet soldiers. From the original northern cemetery, there are still some original tombs, some of the most important personalities of Magdeburg in the 19th century.
In particular, the Mayor of Magdeburg, Auguste Wilhelm Frankie, who built the northern cemetery at his initiative and the memorial to the French revolutionaries Lazar Carnot, who spent the last years of his life in Magdeburg after his exile, is particularly noteworthy.
The most beautiful season in Nordpark is the spring, when countless flowers turn from meadows to a huge blue carpet of flowers.
