Official cemetery
The officials Cemetery (aka. Institution Cemetery of the Prussian pattern Moabit prison ) in the Lehrter Strasse 5 B-D is located near the Berlin Central Station in the district Moabit of the Mitte district and served as a burial place for the law enforcement officers of the adjoining cell prison Lehrterstraße . Mirrored almost in a square shape, the prison cemetery was on the so-called institution garden land, the remains of which are now under an allotment garden colony.
history
The Lehrter Strasse cell prison was built on the now almost undeveloped site under the technical direction of Adolf Hermann Lohse according to plans by Carl Ferdinand Busse between 1842 and 1849. This was preceded by a prison reform by Friedrich Wilhelm IV shortly after his accession to the throne.
When the latter approved the construction in the cabinet order of March 26, 1842, in addition to a central surveillance tower, five star-shaped cell wings, a church and apartments for the law enforcement officers , an institution cemetery consisting of two separate areas was planned. The cemetery was built between 1842 and 1845 outside the prison walls within the approx. 10,000 m² facility garden north of the prison. The cemetery, which is divided by an axillary cross, is divided into a prisoner cemetery and an official cemetery behind it for the law enforcement officers and their family members when viewed from Lehrter Straße.
Known prisoners have included Wilhelm Voigt 1866-1869, Max Hodel , who in 1878 due to an assassination attempt on Kaiser Wilhelm I . was executed, Georg Ledebour and Karl Radek for their participation in the Spartacus uprising and Klaus Bonhoeffer . The last execution took place officially in 1949 ( Berthold Wehmeyer ).
After the cell prison was demolished in 1957/58, only parts of the curtain wall, three civil servants' houses and the institution cemetery were preserved, which was then de-dedicated. A differentiation between civil servants and prisoners had even played a role in what was then West Berlin : While the burial place for the prisoners was assigned to the allotment gardens and thus leveled, the part for the enforcement officers within the allotment gardens remained as a fenced-in area.
Todays situation
The part of the cemetery for civil servants, which has meanwhile been included in the Berlin garden monuments list and is only enclosed by an old, simple, wrought-iron fence over a new yellow clinker base , is now recognizable as a small necropolis, but completely overgrown.
Nothing reminds of the deceased anymore. An older stock of maple , ash and linden trees is freely arranged in the cemetery area, the grave fields overgrown with ivy have only a few tombstones. The grave of Ernst Vetter with the inscription is one of the preserved ones:
- Here / rests in God / my dear husband / and good father, / the royal prison / supervisor / Ernst Vetter / * February 28, 1858, † April 3, 1918
as well as from Luise Post
- HERE REST IN GOD // OUR BELOVED MOTHER / WIFE LUISE POST / BORN WIEHEN / GEB. IN HITTENBERGEN OCTOBER 10, 1849 / GEST. IN BERLIN FEBRUARY 20, 1912
literature
- Jörg Haspel, Klaus von Krosigk: Garden monuments in Berlin. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2008. ISBN 978-3-86568-293-2
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- Cell prison information
- The Berliner Lindenblatt across Lehrter Strasse
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.gartenverband-wedding.de/lehrter_strasse.html
- ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/zeitung/Sonntag;art2566,2218571
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 41.5 ″ N , 13 ° 21 ′ 55.3 ″ E