Luisenstadt cemetery

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Grave of Martha Jagielski, mourners from Albert Moritz Wolff
Monumental grave for Gustav Stresemann by Hugo Lederer
Praiseworthy Mausoleum. Mourners by Robert Baerwald
Grave of a master locksmith, artist unknown
Former Schischin grave site (1905). Now occupied by the architects Hans Luckhardt and Wassili Luckhardt .
Bronze bust for Franz Späth's hereditary funeral by Albert Manthe
Angel by Richard Grüttner on the grave of Gustav Eltschig
The resting blacksmith , grave of Robert Stock (1858–1912)

The old Luisenstadt cemetery is located on Südstern in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg . It was laid out in 1831 on a former unprofitable vineyard . At 90,998 m², it is the largest of the four cemeteries on Bergmannstrasse , although its main entrance, unlike the three neighboring cemeteries, is not directly on Bergmannstrasse. In the middle is the two meter high statue of a resurrection angel, created by Otto Geyer . The cemetery partly contains lavish hereditary burial sites of important Berlin personalities, but also some graves of forgotten personalities with grave decorations that are important for art history.

The Luisenstadt cemetery is the second cemetery of the Luisenstadt community , whose history ended in 1964 with the demolition of the church, a war ruin. The first cemetery was also known as the "plague cemetery" and was finally abandoned in the 1930s. It was located in today 's Waldeck Park on Oranienstrasse , where a large tomb of a cavalry master was left as a souvenir.

In the rear of the churchyard there is a closed system with war graves for 314 war dead, including the grave of an unknown soldier . 63 soldiers from the First World War and 250 mostly civilian war dead from the Second World War rest in this area .

Particular importance during the Nazi era

During the Nazi era, the cemetery gained special importance as the so-called “main cemetery of the movement”. Between September 1931 and April 1935, a total of 22 National Socialists were buried there, not including prominent party leaders. Many of them had died in violent clashes with party opponents, but also party supporters who were shot at their own people or who committed suicide were buried there in a memorial service heavily infused with National Socialist elements.

The responsible pastor Johannes Wenzel, the pastor of the New Garrison Church, to which the cemetery belonged, was an open sympathizer of the National Socialist movement and played an important role in the staging and interlinking of parts of the Protestant church with the Nazi dictatorship.

Today none of these tombs can be found, under what circumstances they disappeared is unclear.

Graves of famous people

Preserved graves

( ± = honor grave of the state of Berlin)

Not preserved graves

See also

Web links

Commons : Luisenstädtischer Friedhof  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Old Luisenstadt cemetery
  2. ↑ tagesspiegel.de - Kreuzberger Kirchhof under the swastika

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 11 ″  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 14 ″  E