Christ Cemetery (Berlin)

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Chapel in the Christ Cemetery

The Christ cemetery (also Christ cemetery ) is a Protestant cemetery on Mariendorfer Damm 225–227 in the Berlin district of Mariendorf in the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district .

location

The area is 62,644 m² and is bordered to the west by the Mariendorfer Damm . This is also where the main entrance to the site is located, which leads through a typical brick gate with three portals and a staggered gable wall. The Hundsteinweg borders the cemetery to the north, the Pilatusweg to the south and the Floningweg to the west with another entrance. To the west of the cemetery is the Mariendorf harness racing track .

History and Buildings

The cemetery was laid out around 1902. A year later, under the direction of master builder Schwencke, a chapel and the enclosure with the entrance portal were built. The Gothic style chapel has a gable roof and, like the portal, was made of bricks with white plastered backs . The apse of the hall building is polygonally broken. The gable is richly decorated with pilaster strips and friezes as well as crenellated corner towers. A colored mosaic and a gold medallion with the head of Jesus Christ and the Greek letters Alpha and Omega are located above the entrance . A sculpture shows a mother with a child. The inscription "How your mother comforts you" is on the base.

Graves (selection)

  • In 1912, the Max Golz family's mausoleum was built next to the main axis . The sandstone tomb is built in neoclassical style and framed with a forged iron grille. In addition to the monograms , the year 1912 can also be found here . The family name Golz was formed with mosaic stones. The tomb is a listed building.
  • Furthermore, there are a total of 88 individual graves of victims of the First and Second World Wars in the cemetery .

In addition to burials in the ground, urn burials and above-ground burial of urns in steles are also offered.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of Berlin cemeteries (including surrounding areas) Senate Department for Urban Development, as of December 2011, (PDF; 84 kB), accessed on July 21, 2012.
  2. ↑ Christ Cemetery , Stiftung Historische Friedhöfe, accessed on April 25, 2018.
  3. ↑ Mahn- und Gedenkstätten Berlin ( Memento of October 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), website of the Association of Displaced Persons, (PDF, 429 kB), accessed on July 21, 2012.
  4. ↑ Graves of victims of war and tyranny - inventory of individual graves and collective graves , Senate Department for Urban Development, (PDF; 176 kB), status: January 2012, accessed on July 22, 2012.
  5. ^ Website of the Christ Cemetery , accessed on July 21, 2012.

Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 52.3 "  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 42.8"  E