Pankow IV cemetery

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Celebration hall at the Niederschönhausen cemetery

The Pankow IV cemetery is an urban cemetery in the Berlin district of Niederschönhausen . It is classified as an alley cemetery and extends from Buchholzer to Blankenburger Strasse, near Herthaplatz, it is behind the houses on Siegfriedstrasse. With around 14 hectares, it is one of the smaller in the district, but it is characterized by the grave sites. The Berlin cemeteries are distributed through the historical development of the city numerous and throughout the city.

history

The former village cemetery of Niederschönhausen was already in use at the beginning of the 19th century. Due to the population growth on the edge of the Prussian metropolis, the need for a new facility arose. In 1854, two farm owners from Niederschönhausen donated the land to the community. For this donation, the Buch farmer Liedemit was given the area for a hereditary burial. In 1856 the congregation requested the church yard to be closed after a period for post-burials. To expand it, the community bought three acres from their son Fritz Liedemit in 1886 for 6,000 marks, and a free inheritance burial site was granted for this. The municipal resolution dates from March 3, 1886, and the land register was entered on September 27, 1886.

The celebration hall was built at the beginning of the 20th century in a romanticized form.

Hereditary burial place of the founder family Liedemit
One of the hereditary burial walls, the partial conversion to urn places visible

Graves of famous personalities

On this community cemetery there are grave sites of many long-established residents of the place with interesting monuments. The hereditary burials (according to existing law, elective graves) are worth seeing. There are five burial walls along the cemetery walls, they testify both to the wealth of some citizens and, on the other hand, to the civic pride of the residents. The Liedemit family has a special right of use because of the donations. From the middle of the 20th century, inheritance rights under GDR law were no longer valid. Since the need for hereditary burials has also decreased, some areas have been converted into urn sites. The possibility of further use as family graves was re-established after 1990. This can lead to conflicts since then. Because of the increased need for anonymous burials, a larger area was set up as an urn community facility.

The graves of Wilhelm Dieckmann, Carl von Ossietzky, Ernst Rehfeldt, Max Skladanowsky and Robert Uhrig were entered in the Pankow list of monuments in 2000. Noteworthy is the proximity of the cemetery to the "town of Pankow", the first residence of GDR government members (1949–1960) and the associated burial places with individual rights.

In Cemetery IV there is a war grave complex with 20 individual graves and two collective graves for 28 victims of war and tyranny.

literature

  • Klaus Hammer: Berlin cemetery guide. Jaron, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89773-081-2 .
  • Brochure: Pankow's state-owned cemeteries. 2008.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map of Berlin 1: 5000: Location of the Pankow IV cemetery
  2. ↑ State list of war graves (PDF; 176 kB)
  3. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  4. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  5. ↑ Ernst Rehfeldt
  6. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  7. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  8. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List

Coordinates: 52 ° 35 ′ 0.6 ″  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 32.2 ″  E