Rummelsburg cemetery
The Rummelsburg cemetery is a state-owned cemetery in the Berlin district of Lichtenberg . It was opened in 1892 and used until 1971, and there is also a war cemetery with 316 individual graves of fallen soldiers from the Second World War .
description
The cemetery at Rummelsburger Strasse 71-73 has a total area of 27,688 square meters. Today it is clearly divided into two very different parts, which differ mainly in the level of care and are separated by a path.
On one side there is a large lawn with sections two and four of the cemetery, on which the monotonous gravestones of the 316 individual graves for the victims of the Second World War lie in several rows. This area is delimited to the rear by the cemetery wall, on which there are several wall burials, including the grave wall of the family of the mason and carpenter Paul Wagenknecht, which is particularly well preserved.
On the other side of the path, starting with the rectangular brick chapel , is the poorly maintained part of the cemetery that is now clearly marked by vandalism . There is lush ivy and shrubbery vegetation that largely covers most of the grave sites. Some of the still clearly visible gravestones were overturned or (like the chapel, which is no longer used today) sprayed with graffiti . Exceptions are the imposing grave cross of the reindeer Julius Neumann and the gravestone of the butcher Walter Rudolph and his wife Ida.
Personalities
There are no honorary graves at the Rummelsburg cemetery and most of the people buried here belong to the bourgeoisie. The tomb of the merchant and community leader Adolph Schlicht on the grave wall is now a listed building . You can also find the graves of several police officers who fell in the turmoil of the March fighting in 1919: Max Mahlecki, Willy Nürnberg, Hermann Raschke, Rudolf Rusenow and Ernst Welk. The most prominent persons were the first pastor of the Erlöserkirche Johann Wilhelm Carl Schlaeger , the director of the Jahn-Realgymnasium Friedrich Bartsch as well as the already mentioned Adolph Schlicht.
See also
literature
- Klaus Hammer: Berlin cemetery guide. Historic cemeteries and tombs in church rooms. Jaron Verlag GmbH, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89773-081-2 ( Berlin plus ).
- Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spenersche Verlagbuchhandlung, Berlin 2006. ISBN 3-7759-0476-X
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Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 1 ″ N , 13 ° 30 ′ 1 ″ E