Lankwitz cemetery

Chapel at the Lankwitz cemetery

Gravestone of Otto Hempel (1858–1903) at the entrance to the cemetery

The state-owned cemetery Lankwitz (in older sources also the old cemetery Lichterfelde-Ost ) is located in the Berlin district of Lankwitz in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district . It was created in 1879. The cemetery chapel was built from brick in the Gothic style in 1889 . The aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal is buried in the 2.14 hectare cemetery .

location

The Lankwitz cemetery borders on Lange Straße to the north, where the main entrance and the chapel are located. In the west it borders on Lorenzstrasse and thus on the district of Lichterfelde . In the south lies the gravel road and in the east the properties of the Monikastiftes and the Catholic parish of Mater Dolorosa .

Graves of famous people

Lieselotte Block (1918–2012), anthropologist

Michael Borgis (1945–2004), Berlin politician

Otto Hempel (1858–1903), first director of the Groß-Lichterfelde grammar school

Arthur Hobrecht (1824–1912), honorary citizen, politician, Lord Mayor, Prussian Minister of State - honorary grave of the State of Berlin

Otto Lilienthal (1848–1896), aviation pioneer - honor grave of the state of Berlin

Hermann Müller-Sagan (1857–1912), publisher and politician

Otto Pfleiderer (1839–1908), Protestant theologian

Walter Porstmann (1886–1959), engineer, mathematician and inventor of the DIN paper format

Berthold Rubin (1911–1990), Byzantinist

literature

Paul Hiller: The Lankwitz Cemetery in Langestrasse . In: ders .: Chronik Lankwitz (= preprint . Volume No. 5/6). Word & Image Specials, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-926578-19-X , p. 139 f.

Web links

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

Lankwitz Cemetery - Interesting facts on the Berlin.de website

Individual evidence

↑ Georg Matthaei: Memorial speech for the late director Dr. Otto Hempel, died January 25, 1903 , Groß-Lichterfelde (1903)
↑ ^a ^b Query of the honorary graves ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Berlin.de, accessed on February 28, 2012 @1@ 2

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[1] Georg Matthaei: Memorial speech for the late director Dr. Otto Hempel, died January 25, 1903 , Groß-Lichterfelde (1903)

[ehrengrab-2] Query of the honorary graves ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Berlin.de, accessed on February 28, 2012 @1@ 2