Biesdorf cemetery

Entrance area

Celebration hall

The Biesdorf cemetery is a state-owned cemetery in the Berlin district of Biesdorf . It is located on Biesdorfer Friedhofsweg 10. Its entrance is about 300 m north of the Alt-Biesdorf road . The 6.0 hectare cemetery is laid out in a triangular shape and is bounded in the northwest by the route of the U5 underground line , in the south by the Biesdorfer Höhe and in the east by the Wuhletal .

history

The Biesdorf cemetery was opened as a community cemetery in 1898. It was a gift from the Wilhelm von Siemens family , the owners of Biesdorf Palace, and originally covered an area of ​​around one hectare. The celebration hall is a brick building in neo-Gothic style with a vestibule and polygonal apse . On the south side of the cemetery there are hereditary burial sites reconstructed in 1994/95 with impressive tombs of families from Biesdorf farmers and vegetable farmers. The entire facility of the cemetery is a listed building. In 1998 the sculpture “Unitas” by the sculptor Volker Hansen was installed.

Graves of famous personalities

• Hans Brass (1885–1959), painter
• Herbert Dreilich (1942–2004), rock musician
• Carl Dubick (1860–1917), local politician, namesake of Biesdorfer Dubickstraße
• Fritz Gödicke (1919–2009), football coach
• Hubert Matthes (1929–2018), landscape architect
• Jochen Thomas (1925–1995), actor
• Otto Zimmermann (1863–1927), local politician, namesake of Biesdorfer Zimmermannstrasse

Günter Mittag , a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED , was buried in the cemetery in 1994, but later reburied in the cemetery in Zepernick .

Web links

Commons : Friedhof Berlin-Biesdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Location map
• Photos of the cemetery
• Information about the cemetery at www.berlin.friedparks.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ List of cemeteries in Berlin
2. ↑ Hereditary burial places
3. ↑ Monument database Berlin: Biesdorf municipal cemetery
4. ↑ Friedhof Biesdorf at www.kulturfuehrer-berlin.de
5. ↑ Grave of Carl Dubick
6. ↑ Grave of Fritz Gödicke
7. ↑ Grave of Jochen Thomas
8. ↑ Otto Zimmermann's grave
9. ↑ For a hundred years, the deceased have been laid to rest in the cemetery on Alt-Biesdorf. "We are a service company". In: Berliner Zeitung , August 12, 1995
10. ^ Grave of Günter Mittag

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 37 ″  N , 13 ° 34 ′ 9 ″  E