Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof Stahnsdorf
The Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof Stahnsdorf is located in the municipality of Stahnsdorf in the state of Brandenburg , but is a state-owned cemetery of the State of Berlin , which is administered by the district office of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf . The size of the cemetery, in use since 1921, is 28.1 hectares . The cemetery is a registered monument of the state of Brandenburg.
history
Even before the First World War , the then independent community of Wilmersdorf acquired an area in the immediate vicinity of the Stahnsdorf south-west cemetery in order to create a cemetery there. The decisive factor was the lack of space in the inner-city cemeteries and the good accessibility by the cemetery railway , which has been in service since 1913 and which also offered the infrastructural possibilities for transferring the corpses. Even before Greater Berlin was formed in 1920, Wilmersdorf announced a limited design competition. The following requirement was made: “The facility must be simple and dignified, the impression of a public park must be avoided. Appropriate classification for the various types of grave sites must be taken into account and the main emphasis must be placed on ensuring that the routing and layout are clear, simple and functional in order to enable users to find their way around quickly. "
The competition was won by the garden architect Erwin Barth from Charlottenburg , who structured the cemetery in a rectangular scheme. A mixture of an avenue district cemetery (layout of the paths) and a forest cemetery (vegetation) was created. Barth himself was also buried in the cemetery after his death.
A small wooden cemetery chapel was built for the funeral services . The first burial took place on September 15, 1921.
From 1935, the number of burials increased, since from this time onwards only cremations were permitted in the inner-city cemetery in Wilmersdorf . In 1939 the National Socialists began clearing several cemeteries in preparation for the construction of the world capital Germania . Reburials of cemetery Maxstraße made at this time in large numbers to the Wilmersdorfer forest cemetery. This means that there are graves in the cemetery that are older than the cemetery itself.
After the wall was built, the cemetery was cut off from Wilmersdorf, which is located in West Berlin . The administration was nevertheless carried out by the district office of the then Wilmersdorf district - however, there were hardly any burials, also because the cemetery was in the border area. Before the route was relocated for today's 115 federal motorway , the northwest corner of the cemetery was abandoned before 1969. It is not known whether graves were leveled, but it is unlikely, as there are hardly any graves to be seen. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall , burials have been unrestricted again, but hardly take place due to the poor accessibility.
Well-known personalities buried
(* = Honor grave of the state of Berlin)
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Hans Baluschek * (1870–1935), painter and graphic artist |
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Erwin Barth * (1880–1933), garden architect |
| Georg Benjamin (1895–1942), physician, resistance fighter | |
| Maximilian Bern (1849–1923), writer | |
| Adelbert Düringer (1855–1924), politician | |
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Arthur Eloesser * (1870–1938), writer and critic |
| Adolf Heilborn (1873–1941), doctor and writer | |
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Ernst Heilmann * (1881–1940), politician and lawyer, resistance fighter |
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Magdalena Heilmann * (1894–1986), social worker, co-founder of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt |
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Willy Jaeckel * (1888–1944), painter |
| Rudolf Kögel (1829–1896), theologian | |
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Hugo Lederer (1871–1940), sculptor |
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Paul Levi * (1883–1930), politician and lawyer |
| John Henry Mackay (1864-1933), writer | |
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Leo Müffelmann (1881–1934), Freemason |
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Katja Meirowsky (1920–2012), painter, cabaret artist |
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Hans Otto * (1900–1933), actor, resistance fighter |
| Sophie Pagay (1857–1937), actress | |
| Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek (1860–1945), composer and conductor | |
| Rahel Sanzara (1894–1936), actress and writer | |
| Willi Schur (1888–1940), actor | |
| Walter Simons (1861–1937), politician and lawyer | |
| Olga Wohlbrück (1867–1933), writer and director | |
| Gustav H. Wolff (1886–1934), sculptor |
literature
- Peter Hahn: Berlin cemeteries in Stahnsdorf. History, stories, people. Oase Verlag, Badenweiler 2010, ISBN 978-3-88922-065-3 .
- Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-7759-0476-X .
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof Stahnsdorf in the Lexicon of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district
- Cemetery plan with important grave sites ( memento from April 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) at the Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung
- Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof Stahnsdorf. Brixen Garden Art Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of Berlin cemeteries (PDF; 84 kB) of the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development
- ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg, Potsdam-Mittelmark district ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Status: December 31, 2008; PDF; 348 kB)
- ↑ Peter Hahn: Barth, Erwin (Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof) / The garden architect is buried in his “own” cemetery ( Memento from January 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , June 8, 2005
- ^ Udo Christoffel: Berlin-Wilmersdorf: The years 1920 to 1945 . Wilhelm Möller, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-9801001-1-1 , p. 94.
- ↑ Google Earth image from 1953
- ↑ Honorary graves of the State of Berlin (as of October 2015) (PDF)
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 41 ″ N , 13 ° 10 ′ 46 ″ E