Lichterfelde cemetery

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Entrance gate in Moltkestrasse

The state-owned cemetery Lichterfelde (formerly Alter Friedhof Lichterfelde-West ) in the Berlin district of Lichterfelde (locality Lichterfelde-West) is located at Moltkestrasse 42 between Augustaplatz and Gardeschützenweg. It was laid out in 1876 for the Lichterfelde-West villa colony founded by the Hamburg entrepreneur Johann Anton Wilhelm von Carstenn . Therefore, the cemetery was planned from the outset as a representative overall facility.

At that time the cemetery was still far from the gates of Berlin. Lichterfelde was incorporated into Greater Berlin in 1920 . There are three honorary graves of the city of Berlin in this cemetery .

The cemetery offers burial options such as earth elective graves, earth row graves, urn election graves, urn community graves, family graves or resting community .

Graves of famous people

Wolfgang Kirchbach (1857–1906) and Marie Luise Becker (1871–1960). Bust signed: Meyer-Pyritz

Others

The shortening of the traditional name Alter Friedhof Lichterfelde-West to Cemetery Lichterfelde in the 1970s could lead to confusion:

  • The old Lichterfelde-Ost cemetery , Langestrasse 7, is now called the Lankwitz cemetery .
  • There is also the Lichterfelde Park Cemetery on Thuner Strasse (the largest of these three), also in the area of ​​Lichterfelde West.

See also

Web links

Commons : Friedhof Lichterfelde  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Wolfgang Holtz: A stroll through the Lichterfelde cemetery in Moltkestrasse . Berlin.de, accessed on January 20, 2014.

Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 38 "  N , 13 ° 18 ′ 37"  E