Cemetery Pankow IX

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The Pankow IX cemetery ( laid out as an avenue district cemetery ) is a state-owned cemetery in the French-Buchholz district of Berlin . It is located between Mühlenstraße and Krugpfuhlweg and extends 400 meters from Navarraplatz to the allotment garden. Both entrances are on Rosenthaler Weg. The cemetery has a total area of ​​36,400 m². Due to the historical development of the city, Berlin cemeteries are numerous and spread over the city area.

Celebration hall on cemetery IX - side wall

history

The first settlers had set up a field with a church and a cemetery nearby, which was also the burial place of the Huguenot community in French Buchholz. Since groundwater was already encountered at three feet, the local board turned to the Royal Domain Office Mühlenhof in 1870 to create a new burial place on the way to the mill. On April 30, 1870, the new cemetery on Mühlenstrasse was approved. The mayor Heinrich Guyot bought the required land from the farmer Heinrich Guyot in October 1871. The first funerals took place shortly afterwards. The cemetery chapel was built in 1893. On January 18, 1909, the community decided to build a morgue. It was opened for use in 1910.

Around 1913 there were plans to create a northern central cemetery for Berlin in the Buch or Karow area. As a result of the First World War and the inflation that started afterwards, the public finances that continued until 1925 prevented such a system as exist in Friedrichsfelde and Staaken.

In 1891 the old cemetery was closed. A cemetery for fallen Soviet soldiers was set up on this site after 1945. In 1899 the cemetery area was expanded. Another expansion took place around 1950. The cemetery is now along the settlement houses not far from the new residential areas of Neu-Karow.

The cemetery chapel has been on the Pankow monument list since 2000.

The currently inactive concealed burial wall

A few years ago, an extensive facility for anonymous burials under trees was created in the back of the cemetery. The need for cemetery space in Berlin is decreasing and that is why it was decided in May 2008 to partially close the unaffected areas in the rear unused part. The areas therefore do not have a blocking period as is necessary for burial areas and are converted to the status "short-term use as grass areas". The area of ​​the cemetery is reduced by 0.04 ha.

Graves of famous personalities

In line with the founding of the place as a settlement for Huguenots by the Elector, Huguenot families such as Chartron, Guyot and Matthieu are buried here.

The spacious urn community facility in the rear part of the Pankow IX cemetery

From families that have lived here for generations: Grunow, Ewest, Schultze, Pluntz, Blankenburg, Bock are testified by the hereditary burials in this cemetery. The hereditary burial wall on Mühlenstrasse is not actively used, however, so the family graves are hidden behind the bushes of a coniferous wood plantation. The tombs indicate that there is a wealthy community here.

  • Julius Ehmke as "Jule und Bubi" (1932-2001), acrobat clown (department 24U-91)
  • Armin Kämpf (1926–2007), actor (Department 7–28)
  • Martin Ritzmann (1919–1984), Chamber singer (Department 1–74)
  • Martin Rockel (1928–2003), Professor of Celtology at Humboldt University (Department 5U-98)
  • Bärbel Wachholz (Kämpf) (1938–1984), singer (Department 7–28) applied for an honorary grave
  • Alfred Wolf (stage name King Repp ) (1898–1968), variety artist (department 2U-58)

literature

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 IX cemetery
  2. ↑ Personal information from a chronicler
  3. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  4. ↑ [1] image King Repp

Coordinates: 52 ° 36 ′ 31 ″  N , 13 ° 25 ′ 43.1 ″  E