Schmargendorf cemetery

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Arrangement of departments

The state-owned Schmargendorf cemetery in the Berlin district of Schmargendorf is an avenue district cemetery that has existed since 1853 . The size is 1.61  hectares . The cemetery is directly adjacent to the Alt-Schmargendorf Evangelical Cemetery , with no visible border .

history

Mausoleum carpenter at the Schmargendorf cemetery

The Schmargendorf cemetery was built in the middle of the 19th century as an extension of the Protestant cemetery Alt-Schmargendorf, which adjoins the Schmargendorf village church , but at that time reached its capacity limits.

Cut of the cemetery in 1914

Since a burial site outside of the town was not desired and the intention was to connect to the old cemetery, only areas on the back of the existing buildings between Breite Straße and Misdroyer Straße were available. After the first expansion in the mid-19th century, a second soon followed in 1879. The available space forced the cemetery to have an angled shape in the transition into the 20th century. It connected to the southwest flank of the old cemetery and reached Misdroyer Strasse over two corners. A new entrance and a party hall in the brick Gothic style were built there in 1894 .

A large burial ground stretched over another corner to the west in the direction of Warnemünder Strasse, but ended in front of this, behind the buildings there. In 1914 the management of the cemetery was transferred to the municipality.

Until the Second World War , other adjacent areas (today's departments H, L, M, U, V and W) were added to the cemetery. Among other things, these expansions meant that some monumental hereditary burials that had previously stood on the outer wall were now located in the middle of the cemetery.

It was not until the 1960s that the cemetery was enlarged to Warnemünder Straße (Department Q), made possible by the destruction of the buildings that had been there during the war, and another entrance was created there.

Works of art

Grave relief of an angel
Grave sculpture of a mourner

The former wall tomb, standing on its own after the cemetery was expanded, for Julius Habicht ( photo ), which was built according to a design by Josef Rauch , and the Tübbecke family grave ( photo ), also a former wall tomb, are protected as architectural monuments .

Sculptural jewelry is in the form of a mourner at a former hereditary burial on the north wall and at the grave of an Engel family in the form of a mourning monk.

At the hereditary burial of the Schütze family, also on the north wall, there is a small angel relief made of bronze and at another hereditary burial on the north wall one made of stone.

Well-known personalities buried

Surname Year of birth Year of death Profession / work Honor grave Photo of the grave
Eberhard Alexander-Burgh 1929 2004 writer photo
Melli Beese 1886 1925 Aviator since 1975 photo
Franz Cornelsen 1908 1989 Publisher and founder of the publishing house photo
Hildegard Cornelsen 1905 1981 Illustrator and textbook author photo
Bruno Fritz 1900 1984 Actor and cabaret artist ( Die Insulaner ) photo
Julius Habicht 1874 1912 architect photo
Paul Hilbig 1901 1981 Geophysicist and Rector of the TU Berlin photo
Georg Lange 1883 1964 Politician and city ​​elder x photo
Max Pechstein 1881 1955 Painter and graphic artist since 1980 photo
Richard Disk 1879 1964 Sculptor and medalist since 1978 photo
Jakob Schulze-Rohr 1930 2008 Architect and urban planner photo
Werner Stein 1913 1993 Politician and city ​​elder x photo
Günter Stüttgen 1919 2003 Dermatologist and university professor
Wolfgang Venohr 1925 2005 Journalist and writer photo
Robert Zander 1892 1969 Botanist and horticultural scientist 1990-2012 photo

literature

  • Berlin and its buildings , Part X, Volume A Systems and structures for supply: (3) Funeral services . Verlag von Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-433-00890-6 , p. 124.
  • A shadow's dream is the person / Berlin cemeteries part 1 (CD-ROM). GBBB eV , Berlin 1997.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ List of Berlin cemeteries (PDF; 84 kB) of the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development
  2. ↑ a b Man is a shadow's dream , description of the Schmargendorf cemetery
  3. ↑ Berlin and its buildings: Funeral Services, p. 124
  4. ↑ Overview plan of the development plan of the Berlin-Schmargendorf district / made in May 1914 . Printed in: Udo Christoffel: Berlin-Wilmersdorf shown on the map for the years from 1588 to 1938
  5. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  6. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  7. ↑ Honorary graves of the State of Berlin (PDF; as of October 2017)
  8. ^ The last march / journalism: Wolfgang Venohr buried in Berlin Junge Freiheit on February 18, 2005

Web links

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

Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 25.4 "  N , 13 ° 17 ′ 33.2"  E