Pankow II cemetery

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The Pankow II cemetery is an urban cemetery in the Berlin district of Pankow . The cemetery is east of Wollankstrasse; the main entrance is on Gaillardstrasse not far from the Wollankstrasse S-Bahn station . The cemetery is surrounded by residential buildings and has an area of ​​10,839 m². The cemetery chapel, which was built around 1900, is a monument . Due to the historical development of the city, the Berlin cemeteries are numerous and spread across the city.

history

Pankow's population had risen from 286 in 1801 to 21,534 within 100 years. The first cemetery became too small. In 1872 the municipality of Pankow bought a plot of land for the second municipal cemetery for 1,000 thalers and built a morgue in 1876. In 1880 the property at Gaillardstrasse 10 was purchased for 800 thalers. Now the poor house of the community was also built here, in which the gravedigger also lived. Later renamed the parish hall , this building now houses a “Assisted Living” facility. In 1891 the 2nd community cemetery was expanded. These three parcels south of the existing site cost the community a total of 17,100 marks.

On the basis of the cemetery development plan, BVV Pankow closed the cemetery on January 1, 2004 in accordance with Section Seven Paragraph 1 of the Berlin Law on State and Non-State Cemeteries. The graves are still being looked after for the rest period. Because of the right to subsequent burial, Cemetery II can still exist until 2090.

West side of the celebration hall at the Pankow II cemetery (the cemetery has been closed since 2004, there will be subsequent burials, but the necessary renovation has been postponed)

The cemetery chapel, built around 1900, has been a listed building since 2000 . Its architectural style is based on Biedermeier and Karl Friedrich Schinkel's construction , the architect is unknown.

Graves and people

Today there are only urn sites in this cemetery. The hereditary burials of the Eisenhardt / von Źernicki-Szeliga family were among the more important graves . A police captain and a general (former grid point, Department X, Row 25) were buried in this Pankow cemetery. The older graves were recorded by Willi Wohlberedt , but these were cleared after the statutory rest period had expired, as there were no extensions. The newer tombstone of Georg Rauchfuß (1880–1939) in Department II was preserved.

With the establishment of the 3rd municipal cemetery in Pankow, the “Second Pankower Cemetery” had lost its attractiveness due to its location in the middle of residential buildings in the expanding community. Important burials continued to take place in the centrally located cemetery on Kreuzstrasse . With the conversion to the urn cemetery, the exclusive graves were no longer available.

Notable burials in this cemetery were:

  • Mayor Carl Hoff (1843-1894),
  • Preacher Otto Leopold Class (1809–1895)
  • Theater writer Rudolf Kneisel (1832–1899)
  • School rider Lina Rosenstock (1875–1895), known as "Adelina de Rosen"
  • Prussian officer Emilian von Źernicki-Szeliga (1826–1910)
  • Poet Uwe Greßmann (1933–1969)

literature

Web links

Commons : Friedhöfe in Pankow  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map of Berlin 1: 5000: location of cemetery II
  2. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  3. ↑ Carl Giessmann, Otto Jacobi (editor): Big city made of small stones. A contribution to the history of the 19th Berlin administrative district (Pankow) . Emil Protz Nachf., Berlin-Pankow 1936, p. 142.
  4. ↑ Law on the state-owned and non-state-owned cemeteries in Berlin (Friedhofsgesetz). (PDF; 61 kB) State of Berlin, November 1, 1995, accessed on July 4, 2008 .
  5. ↑ Weber et al. 1981
  6. ^ Willi Wohlberedt: Directory of the graves of well-known and famous personalities in Greater Berlin and Potsdam and the surrounding area . Fontane bookstore (1952–1953).

Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 48 ″  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 51 ″  E