Weißensee cemetery
The Weißensee cemetery is a state-owned cemetery in the Weißensee district of Berlin .
location
Registered as number 5072 on the Berlin cemetery list, it is located between Roelckestrasse and Schönstrasse , north of the Park-Klinik Weißensee . The main entrance is on Roelckestrasse. The avenue district cemetery has a size of 43,638 m².
history
The cemetery was created in 1893 as a cemetery for the Neu-Weißensee community outside the community area and also for the needs of the city of Berlin. The necessity arose from § 184 of the General Prussian Land Law , which requires that no corpses may be buried within inhabited areas. This is how the cemetery was created in Roelckestrasse in front of the community, north of Neu-Weißensee, west of Alt-Weißensee and at the gates of Berlin. However, as the population increased, so did the development in the suburbs. The cemetery is now almost in the center of the district and can be easily reached from the surrounding residential areas, especially through the Schönstraße side entrance.
At the time of the establishment of the community cemetery, the cemeteries of the Georgengemeinde (Georgen-Parochial-Friedhof III) and the Zionsgemeinde (Segenskirchhof), which still exist on the western side of Roelckestrasse, had existed since 1878. To the east of Alt-Weißensee there is a Jewish burial site, which will be expanded to become the Israeli burial site, today's Weissensee Jewish Cemetery - the largest preserved Jewish cemetery in Europe in terms of area.
The community cemetery was significantly smaller than the neighboring Protestant cemeteries, especially since until around 1910 it had only half of its current area facing Roelckestrasse. It was not until shortly before the First World War that the area was extended to Schönstrasse.
The cemetery is listed as a garden monument in the Berlin State Monument List. All structures, including the two hereditary burial walls, are under monument protection. The residential and caretaker's house (today the waiting hall and office of the cemetery administration of the Weissensee district), including the cemetery wall from 1885, are protected. The clinker-look door and portal on Roelckestrasse from 1913 were designed by Carl James Bühring and Hans Schellhorn. The gate on Schönstrasse and Friedrich Späth's 1925 cemetery hall are also part of the listed complex.
Gravesites
In the cemetery there are two war cemeteries for victims of the Second World War in the entrance area opposite the celebration hall. Here 113 victims rest in a collective grave and 39 victims in individual graves in the honor grove. The collective grave site is marked by a name plaque in bronze with the life dates of the honorees. Slanted majolica panels with names, dates of birth and death and the marking “1939–1945” are placed over the individual graves , as they are uniformly used in the redesign of the war graves in Berlin.
There are also two honorary graves of the State of Berlin at the Weißensee cemetery:
- Carl Woelck (1868–1937) was mayor of the unified Weissensee municipalities from 1905 until 1920, when Greater Berlin was formed. He has had an honorary grave since May 23, 1995. The tomb is the rearmost one on the hereditary burial wall along Roelckestrasse (hereditary burial 12/4).
- Heinrich Feldtmann (1838–1905) was the manor manager and community representative of Neu-Weißensee. In this position promoted development in the community. He has had an honorary grave since May 23, 1995. The grave is to the left of the main entrance in the second row (Department E / SR V / 1).
- Lotte Ulbricht b. Kühn (1903–2002) rests anonymously in the urn community facility UGA 2.
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- Interdisciplinary information system FIS: Pankows cemeteries (maps)
- Pankow Office for Environment and Nature> Friedhofwesen> Friedhof Roelckestrasse
- Cemeteries and burial places: Weissensee Jewish cemetery
Individual evidence
- ^ List of the Berlin cemeteries at the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development
- ^ Map of Berlin 1: 5000: Location of the Pankow XV cemetery - Weissensee
- ↑ Map of Weißensee 1893 ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2015 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.
Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 36 ″ N , 13 ° 27 ′ 7 ″ E