Cemetery I of the Georgen Parochial Community

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Cemetery I of the Georgen-Parochialgemeinde
Georgen-Parochial-Friedhof I
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Cemetery I of the Georgen Parochial Community
Basic data
place Berlin
District Prenzlauer Berg ,
Created 1814
Newly designed 1970; 1911; 2014
Surrounding streets Prenzlauer Berg , Greifswalder Strasse
Buildings numerous burial chapels
use
User groups pedestrian
Technical specifications
Parking area

The cemetery I to Georgen-Parochialgemeinde , formerly George cemetery called, is one of the cemeteries of the Berlin Evangelical Georgen-Parochialgemeinde . It is located in the Prenzlauer Berg district , Greifswalder Straße 229, and borders the New Cemetery St. Marien-St. Nikolai , to whom passage is possible.

history

The Georgenfriedhof was laid out in front of the then Königstor in 1814 . It replaced the Georgenkirchhof, which was laid out in 1693 on Langen Scheunengasse, which later became the Kleine Alexanderstraße, which was repealed and built over with barracks after it had been decreed that “no corpses should be buried in inhabited areas”. The final resting place of Karl Philipp Moritz was also located in this cemetery .

A former churchyard of the same name was opened in 1848 as the largest burial site in Friedrichshain at the Georgenhospital, first mentioned in 1228, and the later Georgenkirche . It was also documented until the end of the 18th century. It has a chapel from 1867 - built according to plans by Paul Erdmann - with underground morgues.

Board at the entrance to Greifswalder Straße 229
Grave of the family of the founder of the Bötzow brewery

In the cemetery are the graves of important personalities, such as Otto Dellschau , Gottlieb Ernst Kleinstüber , Wilhelm Kitto , Hans Skirecki , Franz Wallner , Werner Sellhorn and Johann August Zeune , as well as the hereditary burials of the entrepreneurial families Pintsch , Riedel and Zeitler as well as the - no longer maintained - grave of the brewer family Bötzow .


In agreement with the church, the Berlin magistrate closed the cemetery in 1970; Since 1991, however, burials have been possible again, and the complex has been completely renovated. The planned rededication of areas no longer required in the Georgen-Parochial- and the neighboring New Cemetery St. Marien-St. Nikolai zu Bauland was stopped for the time being after objections from residents. In a project on memorials to memorials to the fallen, all the buried persons identified in this cemetery are summarized in a list.

On April 6, 2014, for the first time in Germany, an area was opened in the cemetery where only lesbians are buried. It stretches over 400 square meters of previously overgrown terrain and offers space for around 80 grave areas (urns and earth graves). The construction of this special cemetery goes back to an initiative of the Sappho Foundation , which organized four burials here by July 2017, registrations for another 25 have been received. There are now inquiries from all over Europe, because this is a statement against the extensive invisibility of lesbians. At the edge of the meadow a colorful photo wall with portraits of the deceased was set up so that the love of women does not remain anonymous, but "shows face".

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spenersche Verlagbuchhandlung, Berlin 2006. ISBN 3-7759-0476-X
  • Klaus Hammer: Berlin cemetery guide . Jaron Verlag GmbH 2001, ISBN 3-89773-081-2
  • Heinrich Trost et al .: The architectural and artistic monuments in the GDR - capital Berlin I . Henschel, Berlin 1983.

Web links

Commons : Friedhof I der Georgen-Parochialgemeinde  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ralf Schmiedecke: Berlin-Friedrichshain. The archive images series. Sutton Verlag Erfurt 2006. ISBN 3-86680-038-X ; P. 34
  2. ^ Monument project , accessed on March 15, 2011.
  3. ^ Cemetery for lesbians in Prenzlauer Berg , Der Tagesspiegel of April 6, 2014.
  4. Visible beyond death . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 18, 2017, p. 10.

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 44 ″  N , 13 ° 25 ′ 27 ″  E