Burial place for the corpses from the Anatomical Theater Berlin

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The burial place for the corpses from the Anatomical Theater Berlin was a cemetery in the Berlin district of Mitte near today's Potsdamer Platz , which was used from 1716 to 1753.

The property on which the burial place was laid out was the property of the church in Lietzow until 1716 , which was made available by Friedrich Wilhelm I , the Great Elector. It was located on the former Tiergartenweg, today's Bellevuestrasse outside the former city ​​wall .

After 1716 the area was made available to the anatomical theater and used as a burial place for the corpses. The bodies were mostly those sentenced to death by hanging by the courts who were dissected for science shortly after the execution . Also among the buried were members of royal families, aristocrats and the remains of saints.

This use continued until 1753, after which the cemetery was abandoned and later served as the school garden of the Royal Realschule under Johann Julius Hecker . Later the Columbushaus , which was badly damaged on the night of the popular uprising on June 17th and was demolished in 1961 on the occasion of the construction of the Berlin Wall , was partly on the property .

literature

  • Willi Wohlberedt : Graves of well-known and famous personalities in Greater Berlin and Potsdam and the surrounding area, Part IV. Published by the State Historical Association for the Mark Brandenburg eV, Berlin 1952.

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 39.3 "  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 32.6"  E