Rauchfangswerder cemetery
The cemetery Rauchfangswerder is a 1,504 square meter private forest cemetery in the Berlin district Schmöckwitz of Treptow-Koepenick .
history
The cemetery was created in 1871 by six residents of the fishing village Rauchfangswerder. For this purpose, they acquired a 900 m² piece of forest from the forestry treasury with the condition that all unknown dead from the Schmöckwitz Forest and Lake Zeuthen must be buried free of charge. The cemetery has been privately operated from the beginning until today.
For hygienic reasons, urn burials have only taken place in the cemetery since 1972 , as it is located in a drinking water protection area. Only residents of the Rauchfangswerder location are buried in the Rauchfangswerder cemetery . Today the cemetery is one of only two cemeteries in Berlin that neither belong to the state of Berlin nor to the church.
Well-known personalities buried
- Irmgard Arnold (1919–2014), opera singer
- Dean Reed (1938–1986), actor (reburied in Green Mountain Cemetery in Boulder , Colorado in 1991 )
supporting documents
- ↑ List of Berlin cemeteries (PDF; 84 kB) Senate Department for Urban Development
- ↑ a b Last stop at Rauchfangswerder. In: Berliner Morgenpost , August 26, 2012.
- ↑ a b Ralf Weber heads the Rauchfangswerder cemetery. ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Berliner Woche , March 20, 2014.
Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 46.5 ″ N , 13 ° 38 ′ 43.9 ″ E