The Albanifriedhof, just outside the line of the medieval wall to the southeast, dates from the late 18th century. The university used it for several centuries as the burial place of professors and prominent townspeople, and the list of names on the headstones is a roll-call of German science and letters: Gauss, the chemist Friedrich Wöhler, the orientalist Heinrich Ewald, and Wilhelm Grimm of the Brothers Grimm.
It is a small, walled, well-kept cemetery and a quiet place to spend half an hour. The university has a printed walking guide identifying the most notable graves.