Priesterweg cemetery

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Listed chapel by Paul Egeling
Entrance gate

The state-owned cemetery Priesterweg (including cemetery at Priesterweg , even cemetery Schöneberg IV , rare today New St. Matthaus Kirchhof is) a cemetery in Berlin district of Schoeneberg the district Tempelhof-Schöneberg near the S-Bahn station Priesterweg . Several sources give the address Priesterweg 17 , in fact it is on Matthäifriedhofsweg (without number).

history

The current 20,030 m² cemetery was created by the evangelical parish of St. Matthew's Church as the New St. Matthew Cemetery after the Old St. Matthew Cemetery had reached its capacity limit and could not be expanded. In 1895 the now listed chapel was built according to plans by Paul Egeling . The first funeral took place in 1899.

However, this cemetery in the midst of allotment garden colonies was hardly accepted by the mostly wealthy community members. After the First World War , the community sold it to the city of Berlin, making it accessible to all confessions.

In 1938, as part of the planned conversion of Berlin into the world capital Germania, the monumental Südbahnhof was to be built in the area of ​​today's Südkreuz station. For this purpose, the cemetery had to cede areas for the track systems. As with some other Schöneberg cemeteries, part of the excavation came to the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf and there was probably buried again in the area of ​​the new reburial , as one author remembers using the example of his grandfather's grave.

After the Second World War , the cemetery, which today has a very attractive lime tree avenue , was reforested. Nevertheless, he remained an economic problem child. Therefore, the district decided in 2004 not to allow any new funerals from January 2005. In the year 2035 this cemetery will be considered abandoned . Already in June 2016 it was largely cleared, only about 5 percent of the grave sites were still visible. The grave of the Berlin original Jakob Kuny , founder of Kunylogy, can no longer be found either (formerly grave site 14-1-7).

In the summer of 2013 the listed chapel was auctioned. The contract was awarded to the architect Jo Sollich, who took part in a design competition and then built a small extension between the cemetery wall and the chapel. The chapel is being renovated and converted into a residential building.

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs. Haude & Spener, Berlin 2005. ISBN 3-7759-0476-X

Web links

Commons : Friedhof Priesterweg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Monument chapel of the St. Matthäifriedhofs
  2. The south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf
  3. ↑ The cemetery on Priesterweg will be closed
  4. About Jakob Kuny , in the mirror .
  5. To the Kuny Memorial
  6. Who would like to buy this cemetery chapel?
  7. ^ Homepage of Sollich Architects with reference to the renovation and new building; accessed on November 8, 2017.

Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 13.8 ″  N , 13 ° 21 ′ 29 ″  E