Marienfelde cemetery
Marienfelde Cemetery is the abbreviation of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe for the churchyard of the Protestant parish Marienfelde north of the Marienfelde village church in Berlin-Marienfelde . A narrow path leads to the churchyard with the address Marienfelder Allee 127 .
Burial places in Marienfelde
Church yard at the village church
The Marienfeld village church was built around 1240 on a Christian cemetery. Until the end of the 19th century, the space around the village church was sufficient as a cemetery for the farming village of Marienfelde. Then the first section of today's cemetery was laid out and buried in the old churchyard only in exceptional cases. An exception still applies today. The grave of the Kiepert family, from which the last patron of the church, Adolf Kiepert came, can still be used by the family.
More burial places
Next to the churchyard there was only a short burial place at the monastery of the Good Shepherd , where, among other things, the pastor Peter Welter was buried.
Marienfelde has had a sizeable Catholic minority since the 1920s. Before the Second World War , the deceased Catholics were buried in Berlin-Lankwitz .
The Marienfelde churchyard
history
In 1889 the first section of the cemetery was laid out and surrounded by a wall that has largely been preserved. It was expanded twice by 1919. The wealthier families built their hereditary burials on the wall. Some of these can be recognized as the graves of wealthy families by more elaborate tombs and fences. Imposing mausoleums , such as in Schöneberg , do not occur here. In many cases, wealthy families were content with simple stone slabs on the cemetery wall. These plates are now slowly detaching from the wall and there is a risk that these testimonies from the time the cemetery was founded will be lost.
Before the Second World War, the Marienfelde cemetery was opened to people of all faiths, because it is currently the only burial place in the rapidly growing district.
Buildings
The cemetery chapel from 1927 is a remarkable phenomenon. It is the last building designed by the architect Bruno Möhring, who lived in Marienfelde for a long time . The neoclassical brick building with the transparent and decorative entrance front to the south provides a special light for the room. The panes of this front and the other windows were destroyed in the Second World War. The new windows do not match the original. But otherwise this chapel is a testimony to new forms of construction in the 1920s and a successful final work for the architect, whose great works were created around 40 years earlier. The chapel has been supplemented by a small waiting room since 1992. A simple concrete and brick building at the main entrance houses the administration and the nursery. The chapel is listed as an architectural monument on Berlin's list of monuments .
The chapel designed by Bruno Möhring
Interior of the cemetery chapel
The window front of the chapel
The waiting hall from 1992
Honor graves
The burial site for the architect Bruno Möhring, who died in 1929, and his family was designated as an honorary grave. Like that of the Petsch brothers and master locksmith Carl Dörre, this tomb on the south-eastern wall of the cemetery is a listed building as a garden monument.
War graves
Over 360 victims of the First and Second World War are buried in this churchyard.
During the First and Second World Wars, the Good Shepherd Monastery was a field hospital . The soldiers who died there were partly buried in this churchyard.
The Second World War also claimed bomb victims in Marienfelde. Some of these are buried on the war cemetery.
The largest group of war dead comes from the last fighting in 1945. Civilians and soldiers died a senseless death here on the outskirts of Berlin in spring 1945 in a war that had long since been decided.
A special grave was laid out in 1941 for 33 mostly Dutch and Czech slave laborers . These died in a night air raid on 14/15. November 1940, when a British bomber shot down by the German flak hit a barrack camp on the premises of the Daimler-Benz engine plant and exploded there.
Special graves
The Catholic Order of School Sisters has been based in Marienfelde since 1945. The community was formed by sisters who were expelled from Silesia after the war . A grave field has been reserved for these sisters in the churchyard, where the deceased nuns are buried in uniformly designed, simple grave sites. This simplicity and uniformity give this part of the cemetery a special character.
See also
literature
- Hans-Werner Fabarius: 100 years of Berlin-Marienfelde in 333 pictures , ed. from the parish council of Ev. Marienfelde parish, Berlin 2006.
- Hans-Werner Fabarius: Bruno Möhring: Architect - Designer - Urban Planner , ed. from the parish council of Ev. Marienfelde parish, Berlin 2004.
- Hans-Werner Fabarius: Marienfelde - From the village to the district of Berlin , ed. from the parish council of Ev. Marienfelde parish, Berlin 2001.
Web links
- - Website of the Protestant parish Marienfelde - churchyard administration
- Entries in the Berlin State Monument List:
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 55.2 ″ N , 13 ° 22 ′ 2 ″ E