Pankow III cemetery

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Listed cemetery chapel from around 1905
Waiting room from around 1925; also listed

The cemetery Pankow III ( listen ? / I ) is a state-owned cemetery in the Berlin district of Pankow . It is located in the Niederschönhausen district or in the Schönholz district . Opened in 1905, the cemetery is the largest municipal cemetery in the district with a size of 144,489 square meters. The cemetery chapel, waiting room, administration building and the tombs of Butting, Linger, Litten, Nipkow and Saefkow are listed as historical monuments. Audio file / audio sample

location

The cemetery is located on an area between the streets Am Bürgerpark, Hermann-Hesse-Straße, Heinrich-Mann-Straße and Leonhard-Frank-Straße. The main entrance is at Am Bürgerpark 24. Side entrances lead from Hermann-Hesse-Strasse and Leonhard-Frank-Strasse to the cemetery. In the northeast, the Volkspark Schönholzer Heide is in the immediate vicinity , and in the southeast, the Bürgerpark Pankow .

The cemetery can be reached by public transport with bus lines 150 and 155, which stop at the Hermann-Hesse-Straße stop right in front of the side entrance of the street of the same name. The Schönholz S-Bahn station is about 500 meters from the main entrance.

history

Cemetery of the victims of war and the tyranny
Memorial plaque from the Pankow VIII cemetery
War graves in the Schönholzer Heide (Pankow VI)
The VdN grove of honor at Pankow III cemetery

In 1903 the municipality of Pankow acquired the "Schönhauser Fichten" as a forest-fiscal area. Schützenhaus and a park-like forest in the Schönholzer Heide already existed at this time. The first community cemetery in Pankow and the area on Gaillardstrasse ( second community cemetery) were no longer sufficient as burial areas for the growing community of Pankow.

In 1905, part of the forest-fiscal area west of the Panke was dedicated as a burial area and laid out in a geometric pattern with linden alleys and double paths. The first funerals took place in 1905. At that time only burials were allowed in the ground. In 1905 the neo-Gothic cemetery chapel was built near the main entrance with red clinker bricks based on a design by Carl Lubig . The open vestibule with a pent roof is connected to the cross-shaped floor plan. Inside, the apse, closed on five sides, rises to a pointed barrel vault with stitch caps. On the outside, the clinker brick facade is subdivided with plastered surfaces, and the arched windows support the Gothic impression. This window shape was taken from the administration building in brick . The rectangular brick building with a hipped roof and a stepped staircase is decorated with headbands in a zigzag line. There were disputes about the cemetery between the communities of Pankow and Niederschönhausen when the residents of Niederschönhausen discovered that Bahnhofstrasse (after 1950 Am Bürgerpark) had no sewage system. The cemetery administrator Schnurstein had moved from the poor house on Gaillardstrasse to the inspector's house of the 3rd cemetery. The missing sewer system forced Schnurstein to move back to the poor house and the cemetery entrance to Bahnhofstrasse was closed. Only the access from Bismarckstrasse (→ Hermann-Hesse-Strasse) in Niederschönhausen remained. An agreement was only reached with the Pankebrücke in 1911 and the joint assumption of construction and cleaning costs. The cemetery Ⅲ grew steadily and the cemetery wall on Bahnhofstrasse was extended several times. The cemetery chapel with morgue and dissection room was built by master builder Carl Lubig. In 1915 a cemetery of honor for the war-fallen Pankower was planned east of the hall. Since it was not used, an urn grove was created in 1923. The first urn was buried on October 6, 1923, it was the painter and former community representative Emil Fengler.

In the years of the First World War and the post-war years until 1925, no further design was made. The Schönholzer Heide opposite was given its shape from 1925 according to plans by Alexander Weiss. In 1935 the urn field was set up with a wall and stairs, which is still preserved and can be reached via the nearby side entrance from Hermann-Hesse-Straße. In 1960 the eastern part of the cemetery was redesigned in an irregular layout with deciduous and coniferous trees. The waiting hall for mourners followed in 1925, the design of which is adapted to Lubig's design of the chapel. These three buildings including the inspector's house are listed as historical monuments. The main entrance was from the south on Bahnhofstraße, from the north there was access to the tram stop on (until 1951) Bismarckstraße . A children's cemetery was created when it was laid out, which was leveled in the 1930s and turned into an urn grove. The expansion into the Schönholzer Heide was designed as a forest cemetery.

In 1943 the “3. Städtische Friedhof ”in Pankow only about half of the existing area and extended along Bahnhofstrasse (now Am Bürgerpark) on the district border with Reinickendorf. The two planned for the "forest area" in the Schönhauser Spruce streets on the site (Hartig- and Reußstraße) were against it at the beginning of the 1930s deconsecrated . In 1932, according to the address book (Danckelmannstrasse) north of Bahnhofstrasse (since 1950: Am Bürgerpark), there was an urban property belonging to the "Natur" non-profit operating company. the city of Berlin, but the cemetery is not yet adjacent. Opposite is Forst on Cottastraße. In 1935 the cemetery nursery was located at this point and Cottastraße continued over Danckelmannstraße. In 1940, the access to the cemetery from Danckelmannstrasse, now known as Wahnschaffestrasse , was located between plots 5 and 7.

In 1943/1944 it was expanded to a size that has existed since then. The increasing number of civilian bomb victims, fallen air force helpers and soldiers from the Buch military hospitals and hospitals required additional burial space. It has both the opposite preferred Luna Park including a large area of the park in the Schoenholzer Heide in a filial biased reclassified surface and set up as 6. Friedhof Pankow. The Schönholz cemetery was expanded as far as possible and added to the complex as the 5th cemetery (later Pankow V cemetery). The result was a total area of ​​almost 300,000 m² approved for burials on both sides of Hermann-Hesse-Strasse.

When the necessary space requirement decreased after the end of the war and the very cold post-war winter 1945/1946, the Volkspark Schönholzer Heide was partly given back (1946) and in 1981 after the closure of Pankow VI for use as a park. Most recently, cemetery VI had an area of ​​38 hectares. Grave sites still existed until 2006; For the ten-year rest period of the areas relevant to the funeral, this part of the park is still fenced and not accessible to the public. After the pious use of the areas has expired, the reallocation to a parking area can finally take place. However, the grove for war victims with graves of honor remains in the permanent right of use . In the zoning plan 2004, cemetery VI is still listed as a cemetery area with the intention of creating a parking area.

Cemetery III lies along the border with the Reinickendorf district . All Pankow cemeteries belonged to East Berlin, while the Reinickendorf district belonged to West Berlin as part of the French sector. In 1961, a 50 meter wide strip of cemetery area was included in the Berlin Wall zone . Along the Bahnhofstrasse (wall strip, again as a street: from 1994 Am Bürgerpark) it was previously delimited by a representative fence. The entrance was nicely designed in the style of the still preserved building (inspector's house). When the wall was built, this cemetery wall was removed, and a front fence and a strip of sand including lighting were built. The opposite north entrance was in Niederschönhausen, but had been better served by traffic since the 1920s. After the wall was built, the east entrance created during the expansion gained significantly in importance.

Since the lay time for earth posts was 25 years and for urn sites 20 years, active grave sites with subsequent burial rights had come to the area of ​​the post zone . Tombs close to the border were actually used as starting points for escape tunnels. In the mid-1960s, the grave sites in the border area near the border were relocated inside the facility. This should make the grave sites accessible again to the relatives. Of course, the main entrance to the cemetery, bordering the death strip, was closed at this time with a decorative entrance gate which, after the turnaround and reopening, consisted of an unadorned metal fence. Due to the location of the cemetery, it was the starting point for attempts to leave the eastern part of the Wall several times.

After the border fortifications were demolished in 1990, the cemetery grounds were set up again. Since then, the active burial area has been running along the current path along the fence. The verge to the street remains a (non-respect) green area. The lawn with the row of Japanese cherries on both sides of the fence marks the former border area. The lawns on the street in front of the fence remained unburied for over 40 years. The burial areas included in the border installations had been de-dedicated when the wall was built when the border was drawn. This area is "not affected by piety". The former burial area lies within the fence and is therefore part of the dedicated "piety prisoner" cemetery area.

The state-owned cemetery Pankow III is a replacement area for the "closed cemeteries" Pankow I, Pankow II and Pankow V. This means that if there is a request from relatives, the grave areas there will be succeeded in Pankow III, which may involve reburial.

In the second half of the 19th century, the need for necessary burial space grew due to the increasing population. The communities of Pankow and Niederschönhausen grew due to their proximity to the Prussian capital and, in particular, after the establishment of the Empire, due to the new role of Berlin. Since the end of the 20th century, the need for burial space has been reversed. The changed habits for burials require smaller graves. A cremation only needs a quarter of the area of ​​an earth burial. Due to the growing number of anonymous burials and higher life expectancy, the space requirements for cemeteries in Berlin and also in the Pankow district are falling. For Pankow, after the “post-war” closure of the cemetery Ⅵ and the “ wall-related ” closure of cemetery Ⅷ, cemetery I (1974), cemetery II (2004) and cemetery V (2007) followed. Due to its location and size, cemetery III is intended as a burial area for both relocations and successor areas and is of sufficient size.

On the other hand, areas in front of the fence that were not affected by piety and which previously belonged to the border strip are closed as cemetery areas. In May 2008, areas affected by piety along Leonhard-Frank-Straße were closed as cemetery areas for new burials. For these, the rest period applies until the end of all grave sites and then a blocking period of 10 years. In total, 2.68 hectares of active cemetery area have been closed since May 2008. According to the land use plan, the status of further use should be use as a lawn.

The graves for the victims of war and tyranny of the Second World War, which are located in the northern part of the cemetery, are remarkable.

Surrounding state-owned Pankow cemeteries

The burial habits caused the closure of the older cemeteries, and cemetery Ⅲ is the intended replacement area, for which no area enlargement is necessary, this forest cemetery offers the possibility to condense the area relevant to piety and to use it more intensively. Due to changed allocation guidelines (elective grave instead of determination by the administration, changed benchmark sizes for grave sites), the redesign of individual cemetery parts according to modern design principles is necessary so that rolling certain areas are not re-allocated until the end of the last grave.

Lattice point on Pankow I.

Pankow I cemetery

The Pankow I cemetery was Pankow's first municipal cemetery, it was opened in 1841 and closed in 1971.

Pankow II cemetery

The Pankow II cemetery on Gaillardstrasse was established in 1872 and closed on January 1, 2004. The graves here have since then still had the right to be buried. So theoretically it could be an active burial area that is subject to piety until 2060 due to the lay time and the deedication period. However, the cemetery office is striving to convert to Pankow III for active positions, which is why burials are no longer taking place.

Pankow V cemetery

The oldest part of the Schönholz cemetery - directly along the road - consists of the “Schönholz colonist cemetery ” of the initial settlement. The cemetery is on the right hand side at the beginning of Germanenstraße in the direction of Wilhelmsruh. A major extension as “5. Städtischer Friedhof ”in Pankow took place because of the increase in the number of deaths in World War II . On July 31, 2007, the cemetery was closed and no further burials will take place. The rights of use remain in place for 20 years after the burial, so the burden of piety will end in 2027.

State-owned cemeteries in Pankow

The following cemeteries were closed:

  • Pankow VI : after the rest period for war dead has expired
  • Pankow VIII : was shut down because it was on the outskirts of Blankenfelde by the Berlin Wall
  • Cemetery XI in Buch (Kolonie Buch) was given up in favor of Cemetery XII

A total of 12 active cemeteries in the State of Berlin are subordinate to the Pankow District Office ; there are separate articles for the other active cemeteries.

Grove of honor for victims of war and tyranny

Memorial stone for war victims
Stele in memory of the victims of the war and the fighters against the war

Pankow III

In the rear part of the site parallel to Leonhard-Frank-Straße is the grave complex of the victims of war and tyranny of the Second World War . There are a total of 1374 individual graves in this honor grove. On the surface of this war cemetery, all the names (as well as dates of birth and death) of the buried are imprinted on several bronze plates.

To the northeast, near the cemetery border at Heinrich-Mann-Platz, the groves of honor for war victims are adjoined by a complex with individual graves for “victims of fascism” (those persecuted by the Nazi regime, VdN ). The status was changed in 1990 by the common Berlin cemetery law. This uniform grave complex was laid out in the 1960s and is characterized by the obligation to use uniform memorial stones. Originally the possibility was created that in a common part of the cemetery, recognized victims of National Socialism in their family-related graves are still connected to their common struggle goal. The special status was not properly defined from the GDR era, so there was no honor grove for fighters against fascism as in other cemeteries in Berlin. There are conflicting views about the current situation. The Berlin legislation that was changed after reunification was based on the cemetery law of the state of Berlin. The usage status of the grave fields in the eastern districts remained unclear. Thus, this facility was used as an area with prescribed monuments, the special status has been changed and the associated funeral regulations have become disputed.

Pankow VI cemetery

Beyond Hermann-Hesse-Strasse, east of the Schönholz shooting range , is the area of ​​the closed and soon to be de-dedicated Pankow VI cemetery (Schönholz park and forest cemetery). In the northern area of ​​the former cemetery around 400 m from Hermann-Hesse-Strasse there is also a war grave grove. The fenced site with 348 individual graves in eleven rows for victims of war and tyranny was redesigned after 1991 under landscape-architectural aspects, because despite the closure of the cemetery in 1981 these graves have a nationwide permanent right of rest and are subject to the protection of the State of Berlin. In the shady park, the rows of now symbolic tombs are greened with ivy. On the inclined majolica slabs , each embedded in an individual concrete stone ring, (as far as known at the end of the war) the names and dates of the burials from 1945 are embedded. Among these honored war victims are the gravesites of around 100 men and women who were killed in bombing attacks during forced labor in Berlin.

Cemetery Pankow VIII

The 46 war graves from the state's own cemetery Pankow VIII (13159, Bahnhofstrasse 16) were also part of the grove for war victims in cemetery III . This cemetery (formerly Blankenfelde cemetery ) was located near the district boundary to the Reinickendorfer district Lübars and was north of the Rieselfelder areas from 1961 in the area of ​​the construction of the Berlin Wall , also for this reason and because of the lack of use it was closed in 1974. With the fall of the Wall , the area was again available as a burial area and the rest period had not yet been reached, but the closure has remained binding under Berlin state law. However, the war graves on the cemetery grounds have a permanent right to rest in accordance with federal law. During the reorganization at the beginning of the 1990s, the honor of the 46 war victims was marked with a bronze plaque on Cemetery VIII. Because of vandalism on the site, which is remote from the center of Blankenfeld, the war cemetery was incorporated into the honor grove at Pankow III cemetery. The remains from the grave sites were buried in bones boxes in this honorary grove . The names and dates of the war victims are embossed on the bronze nameplate.

Soviet military cemetery Ehrenhain Schönholzer Heide

The Soviet memorial in Schönholzer Heide is located in the Pankow district. According to federal law, the military cemetery has the right of permanent use and is maintained as a war cemetery by the State of Berlin; this commissioned the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge with the maintenance. The memorial includes 13,200 individual graves for fallen and deceased soldiers of the Red Army who were buried in 1945 and 1946. In the final phase ( Battle of Berlin ) in March / April 1945 around 80,000 Soviet soldiers were killed. Fallen German soldiers were buried alongside other war victims in the cemetery Ⅵ.

Graves of famous personalities

The oldest local tomb

There are currently (as of November 2018) six graves of honor from the State of Berlin in the Pankow III cemetery . The actor Ernst Busch , who had his house at Leonhard-Frank-Straße 11 from 1966 until his death, only a few meters from the cemetery entrance, deserves special mention. The grave of Hans Fallada was reburied in Carwitz . It should be noted a simple grave complex for the deceased brothers of the Franciscan monastery. This is located on Wollankstrasse. This well-kept community facility is located in Department 8, not far from the celebration hall.

The cultural and historical graves of the chairman of the German Horticultural Society Paul Braun (1865–1923), of Pastor Friedrich Zillessen, founder of the publishing house Zillessen Berlin (1832–1915), the Juhl's hereditary burial site of Paul Juhl (1848–1919) or the grave of the Royal Music Director Ernst Zander (1873–1939) no longer exist. The oldest surviving grave site is the Holtkötter family grave on Hauptallee Holtkötter's mother found a double grave site in the new cemetery in May 1906 for 787.50 marks, the stone names the "dear mother, grandmother and great-grandmother". The master saddler and community representative Richard Holtkötter (1855–1916) and his son Bruno Holtkötter (1882–1915) also found their graves here. The main avenue is in the old part of the cemetery between the Hermann-Hesse-Straße bus stop and the celebration hall.

The graves of Max Butting, Hans Litten, Paul Nipkow, Reinhold Burger, as well as Max Lingner and Anton Saefkow were entered as architectural monuments in the Pankow monument list in 2000, after having had monument status since 1978 according to the Pankow council decision.

Memorial stones of honor graves

Gravestones of famous people

literature

Web links

Commons : Friedhof Pankow III  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. Carl Lubig is the architect of the cemetery chapel

Individual evidence

  1. List of cemeteries in Berlin (PDF)
  2. a b Carl Giessmann, Otto Jacobi (ed.): Big city made of small stones. A contribution to the history of the 19th Berlin administrative district (Pankow) . Emil Protz Nachf., Berlin-Pankow 1936. Page 4.
  3. Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  4. a b c d e On the location of the cemeteries on the city map of Berlin 1955
  5. a b official map series "City Map of Berlin" Maps 4346/4347, especially 1935 to 1938, keyword: Am Bürgerpark (... 24)
  6. ↑ Land use planning Berlin
  7. ^ Barbed wire fence at the Pankow cemetery, 1961
  8. ^ Escape report from the cemetery ( Memento from January 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  9. Image of the border security at the height of the main entrance to the cemetery ( memento from January 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) On the right of the image is the administration building, in front of which the path runs, followed by the snow-covered area to the foreland wall on which some uncleared areas can be seen . This strip was previously an area of ​​piety. The signs on the (shot) border strip behind border wall 75 can also be seen . The previous cemetery wall and the main entrance have already been removed. According to information from the cemetery employees who were still present around 2005/2008, this area on the foreland wall was brightly lit at night and when they left the administration building in the dark for the replacement entrance (Hermann-Hesse-Straße), they attracted the attention of the border troops and were "illuminated" with spotlights .
  10. photos-the-border troops-the-DDR-of-the-berlin-sectors-UNFD-zone limit: 20 to 30 images ( Memento of 8 December 2012 at the Internet Archive ), accessed December 30, 2012, the images (border wall 75 ) are (partially) still accessible with reference to license rights.
  11. Mauertod von Einsiedel (PDF)
  12. ↑ Space requirement (1991-2004) ( Memento from December 31, 2006 in the Internet Archive ; PDF)
  13. Pankow district cemetery development plan (PDF; 854 kB) (PDF)
  14. Map of Berlin 1: 5000: location of cemetery V
  15. Map of Berlin 1: 5000: Location of the Pankow XI cemetery
  16. District Office Pankow of Berlin : Department of Urban Development Roads and Green Space Office State-owned Cemeteries, Headquarters Am Bürgerpark 24, 13156 Berlin: Ms. Ambrosius - SGA 3
  17. ^ Map of Berlin: Am Bürgerpark / Hermann-Hesse- / Thomas-Mann- / Leonhard-Frank-Straße
  18. Map of Berlin 1: 5000: Location of the Pankow IV cemetery
  19. Map of Berlin 1: 5000: location of the Pankow VII cemetery
  20. Map of Berlin 1: 5000: Location of the Pankow IX cemetery
  21. Map of Berlin 1: 5000: Location of the Pankow X cemetery - Blankenburg
  22. Map of Berlin 1: 5000: Location of the Pankow XII cemetery
  23. ^ Map of Berlin 1: 5000: location of the Pankow XIV cemetery - Heinersdorf
  24. ^ Map of Berlin 1: 5000: Location of the Pankow XV cemetery - Weissensee
  25. Special status according to Section 12 of the Cemetery Act (PDF; 61 kB)
  26. Cemetery regulations (PDF; 84 kB)
  27. Map of Berlin 1: 5000: location of cemetery VI
  28. ^ Forced laborers in Berlin
  29. Map of Berlin 1: 5000: location of cemetery VIII
  30. ^ Map of Berlin 1: 5000: Location of the Soviet memorial
  31. a b c d e f g Honorary graves of the State of Berlin (PDF)
  32. ^ Franciscans
  33. Brown . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1915, I., p. 331. “Btaun: Gen. Secretary d. German Horticultural Society, Pankow, Florastraße 31, III. ”.
  34. Zillessen . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1915, I, p. 3574. “Friedrich Zillessen, Pastor a. D. u. Verl Buchhdl., Pankow, Amalienark 4, I., S. "Gutenberg" printing press.
  35. Juhl . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1915, I, p. 1357. "Paul Juhl, factory owner, Pankow, Berliner Strasse 29, I.".
  36. Ernst Zander . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1915, I, p. 3545. “Dr. med. Ernst Zander, pr. Dentist and doctor, Breite Straße 26a, I., office hours 9-12, 2-5 “., Plus Paul Zander . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1934, I., p. 2856. “Zander, Ernst, Dr. med, pr.Zahnarzt, Pankow, Breite Straße 26a “(# 3557, part II, page 613: Appendix Zahnaerzte Verw.-Bez. 7-20 // Address directory: # 5942, page 2209).
  37. resting place
  38. Holtkötter . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1915, I., p. 1240. "Richard Holtkötter, factory owner, Pankow, Wollankstrasse 128, I." (Company: Sattelwarenfabrik and Lederhandlung, N 24, Linienstraße 130, owner Bruno and Tichard Holtkötter).
  39. Holtkötter . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1915, I., p. 1240. “Bruno Holtkötter, factory owner, Pankow, Wollankstrasse 128 s. Richard Holtkötter ”.
  40. Gisela Langfeldt: The resting place of the Holtkötter family . In: Freundeskreis Chronik Pankow: Mitteilungsblatt 1/08 . Berlin-Pankow 2008
  41. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon Berlin burial sites. Pharus Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 .
  42. Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  43. Neues Deutschland , April 17, 1985, p. 7.
  44. Friedrich Burmeister's urn is buried. In: Neue Zeit , August 10, 1968, p. 1.
  45. Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  46. Bernd S. Meyer (interviewer): As it is called by Dörrier ... In: Berlinische monthly ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 7, 2000, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 59-66 ( luise-berlin.de ).
  47. Congratulations to Adolf Endler on planetlyrik.de
  48. ^ Obituary of the Pirckheimer Society
  49. The strong castles fall barely audibly . In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 9, 2013
  50. ^ ABF founder ( Memento from August 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  51. ^ A Pankow pharmacist as a composer
  52. Dietmar Winkler: Here rests in peace ... artist graves in and around Berlin . BoD, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-8334-0904-5 .
  53. Berliner Zeitung , October 18, 1958, p. 3.
  54. Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  55. Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  56. Tombstone from Pitra
  57. Dr. Reinhart's last ride. In: Neue Zeit , December 30, 1952, p. 2.
  58. Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  59. ^ Memorial service for Mayor Schwarz. In: Neue Zeit , March 8, 1952, p. 5.
  60. ^ Katrin Lesser, Jörg Kuhn, Detlev Pietzsch: Garden monuments in Berlin: Friedhöfe. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86568-293-2 , p. 198.
  61. Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  62. Inventor of the thermos
  63. Entry in the Berlin State Monument List

Coordinates: 52 ° 34 ′ 17 ″  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 14 ″  E