Wilmersdorf cemetery
The state-owned Wilmersdorf cemetery in the Berlin district of Wilmersdorf is an avenue district cemetery that has existed since 1885/1886 and has been expanded several times. The current size is 10.12 hectares . The occupancy areas A, B and D are a registered garden monument of the State of Berlin.
When the cemetery was expanded to the northwest, a crematorium with extensive columbaria was built in the cemetery from 1919 to 1923 . Cremations have not taken place here since 1990, but the mourning hall in the building is still used. The crematorium is a registered monument of the State of Berlin.
history
The cemetery was laid out as a municipal cemetery for the rural community Deutsch-Wilmersdorf west of the center of Wilmersdorf south of Berliner Straße. The size at that time was about one hectare. In the center of the cemetery, a cemetery chapel with an adjoining morgue was built in clinker construction based on designs by Max Contag and Christian Havestadt . From the chapel, the cemetery was opened up with a rectangular grid of paths, with the main paths as avenues, mainly with linden and plane trees . The cemetery was closed by a cemetery wall on which numerous monumental hereditary burial sites were built.
The cemetery chapel was badly damaged in World War II and subsequently demolished. The circular path that led around the chapel still exists, the former location of the chapel was planted with rhododendron bushes . The avenues and the outer walls with the wall graves and mausoleums are still largely in place. The former main entrance is now the side entrance on Berliner Straße.
Between 1906 and 1915 the cemetery complex was expanded several times to the south, west and east. The design principles of the cemetery were largely retained during the expansions. The designs for the extensions are attributed to Richard Thieme . Only a rectangular area of water and a park-like group of graves, which was called the “grove burial place”, have been created in a strict grid. The water surface later gave way to a shelter.
The extensions of the Wilhelmsaue to the west and the Brienner Straße to the south, which would have quartered the cemetery, were taken into account. Only from the 1950s, when these road extensions lost their meaning in connection with the planning of the nearby city motorway ring , were the areas occupied.
After the Second World War, grave fields were laid out in several places in the cemetery for the numerous victims of the war. According to the law on the preservation of the graves of victims of war and tyranny, these graves must be preserved permanently.
Wilmersdorf crematorium
After cremation was legitimized in Prussia and positive experiences in the former districts of Wedding ( Urnenfriedhof Seestrasse with Richtstrasse crematorium) and Treptow ( Baumschulenweg cemetery with Baumschulenweg crematorium ), the Wilmersdorf community also decided to build a crematorium and to increase the use of cremation. It was hoped that this would improve the hygienic conditions and reduce the required burial space. However, the plans could only be implemented after the First World War . From 1919 to 1922, the crematorium was built in the northwestern area of the cemetery according to designs by Otto Herrnring .
Herrnring designed the crematorium in a classical style with a central building and two side wings. A 17.5 meter high dome in the center dominates the building. The only external decorative element on the gable of the central building above the main entrance is a relief depicting Chronos with the title Die eilende Zeit by Eberhard Encke . The central building is entered via a wide flight of stairs that lead to a foyer that is in front of the entire front of the building.
The mourning hall is in the center of the building. Light falls into the room through a high drum below the dome. Opposite the entrance there is an altar and above the entrance on a gallery there is an organ and space for singers.
The technical facilities for cremation are located in the basement and in the basement of the crematorium. Two ovens were available here for cremation . A particularly clever solution was found for the exhaust air, as no visible chimney should impair the visual appearance of the building. Both the exhaust ducts of the two ovens and the ventilation ducts from the corpse storage rooms are led upwards at the rear of the tower and enter the dome over the cornice . Above the massive masonry inner dome vault, the shafts lead to the center of the dome and end there in an attic-like structure. This construction leads to the parabolic dome shape, which is visible from the outside, while the inside of the dome ends with a hemisphere.
The delivery of the deceased and the removal of the ashes for burial in other cemeteries took place via a farm yard, which could be reached southwest of the crematorium, shielded by the central building and west wing, without disturbing the cemetery visitors via Kalischer Straße. In addition, the service yard is lower so that the rooms in the basement could be accessed directly. The lifting and lowering of the coffins from the economic area into the prayer hall was carried out by a lifting device operated with pressurized water .
The design of the cemetery in the vicinity of the crematorium was again carried out by Richard Thieme. In order to increase the effectiveness of the crematorium, he created sunken lawns in front of it. Thieme designed the axis from the new main entrance to the crematorium with several plant basins and two mirror-image pairs of sculptures of mourners, which were also created by the sculptor Eberhard Encke.
The front area was redesigned as early as 1931. The area of the forecourt was lowered by up to two meters to improve the overall impression of the facility. The still new urn field to the right of the path to the crematorium was abandoned and replaced by a square green area, which with the newly built columbaria is reminiscent of a cloister .
In 1948, 1951, 1953 and 1970 further additions were made (cooling system, plant hall, condolence hall , morgue ). In particular, the construction of a new wing at the east end of the crematorium changed the appearance of the crematorium significantly.
In 1966 the crematorium was renovated and temporarily closed. In 1990 the crematorium was shut down because the capacities in the Baumschulenweg and Ruhleben crematoriums are sufficient for Berlin and offer sufficient reserves.
Columbaria
Despite the space-saving cremation, the space in the cemetery became narrow and the construction of several columbaria began as early as 1925, some of which were connected to the crematorium, thus breaking the symmetry of the building and thereby limiting the architectural effect. A special feature of the Wilmersdorfer Kolumbarium is a garden courtyard in Moorish - Gothic style, which was also used for the construction of the Simmering fire hall . Here and in other ornately designed rooms, a need for representation could also be satisfied at an urn burial.
At the beginning of the 1930s, the columbaria were steadily expanded. The initial design as a cloister and garden courtyard, however, offered too few burial options at "popular prices". In the course of the further expansion of the columbaria, walls were erected in which the ashes of the deceased were buried in a very confined space without an urn , but only in the crematorium's ash capsule.
From 1935 onwards, only urn burials were permitted at the Wilmersdorf cemetery. The name of the cemetery was changed to Urnenhain Wilmersdorf . After 1945, however, this regulation was lifted again.
Works of art
In the older parts of the cemetery, in particular, there are tombs and sculptures of art historical value . The numerous wall graves and mausoleums form a unique ensemble in the Berlin sepulchral culture . Above all, the sculptor Hans Dammann left numerous works here, both architectural and sculptural , which are still in good condition today.
Dincklage burial site
For the Rittmeister Baron Max Ildefonso von Dincklage, who died in 1907 , his descendants had a monumental hereditary burial built. Hans Dammann received the order for this. Here he designed a temple-like structure open to the top . A total of twelve Doric columns made of Ettringer tuff stand on a granite base on the side and front . The entrance to the crypt emerges in a semicircle from the closed back, the wrought-iron door of which was originally blue-glazed. There is a massive entablature on the pillars and the back wall. The grave can be found in grave location A East.
In 2007 the grave site was re-assigned.
Gieseler family grave
The grave of the old Wilmersdorf family Gieseler was laid out around 1900 on the western wall of the oldest part of the cemetery. It is adorned by a four-meter-wide relief by the hand of the Tyrolean sculptor Norbert Pfretzschner , who lived in Charlottenburg from 1891 to 1913 . He put the quote "Be faithful to death so I will give you the crown of life" from the Revelation of John (Rev. 2,10) artistically. Pfretzschner shows a seated angel, in one hand holding an upright torch as a symbol of life, in the other hand a crown, which he hands over to two old people sitting on the floor. However, the angel does not look at the old woman, but at a putti standing next to him , which gives the scene the impression of a didactic piece.
The Gieseler grave was abandoned in the 1970s. The grave inscriptions, which recalled the Gieseler family buried, were dismantled and the area in front of the grave wall was now occupied with individual graves.
Kemmann tomb
In 1928, the traffic expert Gustav Kemmann had a family grave built by the Swiss architect Sepp Kaiser for his wife, who died on December 8, 1927 . Kemmann and Kaiser knew each other through their activities for the Berlin elevated and underground railway. Gustav Kemmann followed his wife in 1931. The burial site is now the honorary grave of the State of Berlin. It is still used by the descendants of Kemmann (Lenke family).
Loebell's burial place
Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell had a family grave laid in the oldest part of the cemetery (grave field A) in 1911 after the death of his son Dietrich, who died at the age of 20. The design for this system comes from Hans Dammann. He designed a three-section grave wall. The two outer fields were intended as plaques of honor for the names of the deceased and the middle field was designed as a false portal , to which a short flight of stairs leads up. However, the portal is blocked by a large marble cross, which symbolically blocks the access of the bereaved to the afterlife . For the depiction of the afterlife on the wall behind the cross, Dammann chose a lining with dark blue glass mosaic with a contrasting golden mosaic border and golden rays emerging from behind the cross. Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell and his wife Margarethe, b. von Flottwell, were buried here. The system is located in the grave location A East.
The tomb was converted in 2007 as a community grave for the Wilmersdorf church district. In addition to a redesign of the grave field, the names of the von Loebell family were covered on the grave wall with two black metal plaques on which the names of those newly buried here are listed.
Grave complex pepper
The Pfeffer grave complex is unique in the Berlin area. A sculpture of a mourning woman stands in front of a relief wall that is covered over and over with plant motifs. The wall, carved in shell limestone , gives the impression of fossils due to the low working depth of the reliefs, reinforced by the meanwhile significant weathering . In front of the relief wall and sculpture is the crypt covered with four large plates, so that in clear contrast to the numerous depictions of plants on the relief wall, the grave itself could not be adorned with real plants. The architect or sculptor of the grave is not known. However, it is speculated that it could be a work by the sculptor Richard Langer . The grave is in the grave location B East.
Wislicenus-Finzelberg burial site
The first burial in this family grave was that of the history painter Hermann Wislicenus in 1899. Hermann Finzelberg followed in 1922. In December 1939, the married children of the two first buried, the painter Hans Wislicenus and his wife, the sculptor Lilli Wislicenus-Finzelberg, died within two days. Both were buried here.
The tomb wall has three sections. The name inscriptions, which are now heavily weathered and barely legible, are located above a base area on the outer fields. The niche in the middle field houses the tomb sculpture of a mourning woman who is laying down a rose , a common symbol of love in the grave decorations. This sculpture was created in 1910 by Lilli Wislicenus-Finzelberg, who was later buried here. The sculpture and grave wall make use of the design language of Art Nouveau . This grave is also in the grave location A East.
The same sculpture can also be found on a grave in the Vvedenskoye Cemetery in Moscow.
More graves
Furthermore, some tombs are equipped with individual grave sculptures. Here are to be mentioned
- a marble angel figure by August Bauer on the hereditary funeral Bolze (A Ost),
- a marble figure of Christ on the former grave site Blisse-Ochs (today common grave complex) of Franz Ochs , who was also buried here (A West),
- a self-made, marble figure of Christ by the sculptor Michel Lock, who is buried here (A5 at the roundabout),
- a bronze galvanoplastic sculpture of a mourning woman on a former family grave (today a common grave) by Hans Dammann (A Ost), which can be found in numerous (Berlin) cemeteries,
- a relief by August Rhades on the grave of Henriette von Hollitscher (B Ost).
Angel by August Bauer
Christ figure by Franz Ochs
Christ figure by Michel Lock on his grave
Sculpture of a mourner by Hans Dammann
Angels on the family grave of Hermersberg
Grave for a girl who died in 1922 at the age of five
There are portrait reliefs on four gravestones to commemorate the buried there.
- Grave relief of mathematics professor Richard Güntsche (1861–1913), rare high relief in half profile made in 1914 by the sculptor Richard Grüttner (B1-15-9)
- Relief tondo for the composer Theo Mackeben (A5-UW-118)
- Grave relief of the architect and city councilor Otto Schnock (1865–1922), signed "VE Schmidt 1922" (B12)
- High relief doo of the Wilmersdorfer main teacher Christian Schulz (1824–1898, Grabfeld A6)
Grave relief Richard Güntsche
Tondo Theo Mackeben
Grave relief Otto Schnock
High relief doo Christian Schulz
Well-known personalities buried
| Surname | Year of birth | Year of death | Profession / work | Honor grave | Grave tray | Photo of the grave | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Günther Abendroth | 1920 | 1993 | Politician | x | D16-23 | photo | |
| Hans Ailbout | 1879 | 1957 | Musician, music director, composer | not received | |||
| Georg Alexander | 1888 | 1945 | Actor, director | Abandoned in 1960 | |||
| Otto Antoine | 1865 | 1951 | Painter | C7-4-8 | photo | ||
| Hans Arnold | 1860 | 1913 | sculptor | not received | |||
| Paul Felix Aschrott | 1856 | 1927 | Lawyer, criminal law and social reformer | not received | |||
| Ewno Asew | 1869 | 1918 | Lockspitzel Asew | not received | |||
| Bruno Balz | 1902 | 1988 | Pop writers, lyricists | B6-UW-54 | photo | ||
| Otto Bashin | 1865 | 1933 | Professor of Geography (HU) | not received | |||
| Max Baumbach | 1859 | 1915 | sculptor | not received | |||
| Giuseppe Becce | 1877 | 1973 | composer | Room 21, Wall C, Row 11, No. 6 | photo | ||
| Wilhelm Beckmann | 1852 | 1942 | painter | photo | |||
| Peter Behrens | 1868 | 1940 | Architect and designer | Former room 16, wall A, row 4, no.5 | not received | ||
| Franz Beyschlag | 1856 | 1935 | geologist | not received | |||
| Robert Biberti | 1902 | 1985 | Singer with the Comedian Harmonists | C5-89 | photo | ||
| Rudolf Biebrach | 1866 | 1938 | Film director and actor | B9-UR-212 | photo | ||
| Auguste Blisse | 1845 | 1907 | " Millions of farmers ", founder of an orphanage | since 1969 | A West 96-97 | photo | |
| Christian Blisse | 1823 | 1905 | " Millions of farmers ", founder of an orphanage | since 1969 | A West 96-97 | photo | |
| Carl Bohm | 1844 | 1920 | composer | not received | |||
| Curt Bois | 1901 | 1991 | actor | A9-87 | without tombstone | ||
| Richard van der Borght | 1861 | 1926 | Political economist | not received | |||
| Richard Bornstein | 1852 | 1913 | Physicist and meteorologist | B1-15-8 | photo | ||
| Otto Briesemeister | 1866 | 1910 | opera singer | not received | |||
| Egon Brosig | 1889 | 1961 | actor | B5-Ur-104 | photo | ||
| Alexander Calandrelli | 1834 | 1903 | sculptor | not received | |||
| Paul Colberg | 1863 | 1926 | Composer and pianist | Urn room, wall A, row 4, number 4 | Abandoned in 1988 | ||
| Max Contag | 1852 | 1930 | Engineer ("builder" of the Teltow Canal ) | A West 81-86 | photo | ||
| Sigrid Damm-Rüger | 1939 | 1995 | SDS activist, feminist, author | ||||
| Max Delbrück | 1850 | 1919 | Agricultural chemist | not received | |||
| Ludwig Deubner | 1877 | 1946 | Classical philologist and religious scholar | not received | |||
| Emil Doepler | 1855 | 1922 | Painter | not received | |||
| Julius Ehrentraut | 1841 | 1923 | Painter | not received | |||
| Richard Ermisch | 1885 | 1960 | Architect, City Planning Director | A9-UW-16 | photo | ||
| Hans Fiebrandt | 1905 | 2001 | actor | ||||
| Emil Franke | 1880 | 1945 | District Mayor of Wilmersdorf | not received | |||
| Johannes Friedrich | 1893 | 1972 | Ancient orientalist and university professor | photo | |||
| Hermann Föttinger | 1877 | 1945 | Electrical engineer and inventor | C14-2-31 | photo | ||
| Friedrich Freund | 1861 | 1924 | State Secretary in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior | not received | |||
| Hugo Gasteiger | 1899 | 1978 | Ophthalmologist | photo | |||
| Nikolaus Geiger | 1849 | 1897 | sculptor | not received | |||
| Iska Geri | 1914 | 2002 | Actress and cabaret artist | ||||
| Otto Geyer | 1843 | 1914 | sculptor | not received | |||
| Theodor Grawert | 1858 | 1927 | Army music officer | not received | |||
| Siegfried Grönig | 1942 | 2000 | actor | B2-Ur-3 | photo | ||
| Wilhelm Grube | 1855 | 1908 | Sinologist | Fritz Schumacher grave design , not preserved | |||
| Isa Gruner | 1897 | 1989 | social worker | ||||
| Heinrich Grünfeld | 1855 | 1931 | cellist | not received | |||
| Carl Halir | 1859 | 1909 | Violin virtuoso | not received | |||
| Otto Hammann | 1852 | 1928 | Lawyer and press officer in the Federal Foreign Office | not received | |||
| Agnes Harder | 1864 | 1939 | poetess | not received | |||
| Karin Hardt | 1910 | 1992 | actress | ||||
| Johannes Hass | 1873 | 1945 | Trade unionists and politicians | since 1965 | B10-UW3-15 | photo | |
| Otto Hauser | 1874 | 1932 | History researcher, discovered the Aurignac man | 1990-2014 | C2-UW-20 | photo | |
| Christian Havestadt | 1852 | 1908 | Architect ("builder" of the Teltow Canal) | A East 25-28 | photo | ||
| Wolf Hilbertz | 1938 | 2007 | Architect, entrepreneur, researcher | ||||
| Matthias Hinze | 1969 | 2007 | Actor and voice actor | photo | |||
| Gerhard Huttula | 1902 | 1996 | camera operator | ||||
| Eliza Illiard | 1905 | 1969 | Coloratura soprano | ||||
| Julius Jacob | 1842 | 1929 | Painter | not received | |||
| Gerhard Janensch | 1860 | 1933 | Sculptor and painter | not received | |||
| Victor Janson | 1884 | 1960 | actor | ||||
| Leon Jessel | 1871 | 1942 | Composer ( Black Forest Girl ) | C8-16a-23 | photo | 1955 Relocation of the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf | |
| Peter Jokostra | 1912 | 2007 | writer | Room 2, No. 30 | photo | ||
| Clemens Kaufung | 1867 | 1921 | opera singer | not received | |||
| Gustav Kemmann | 1858 | 1931 | Transport scientist | since 2004 | B East 70-72 | photo | |
| Felix Klemperer | 1866 | 1932 | Mediciners | A5 # 101 | not received | ||
| Reinhard Kolldehoff | 1914 | 1995 | actor | C13-16-18 | photo | ||
| Willi Krause | 1903 | 1987 | Politician, union official | x | A11-UW-129 | photo | |
| Reinhold Kuebart | 1879 | 1937 | sculptor | not received | |||
| Bernhard Kühn | 1838 | 1917 | Professor at the Royal Technical University of Berlin | not received | |||
| Heinrich Kühn | 1894 | 1981 | Politicians and trade unionists | x | E3-UR-317 | photo | |
| Helmut R. Külz | 1903 | 1985 | Lawyer, Vice President of the Federal Administrative Court | ||||
| Wilhelm Külz | 1875 | 1948 | Politician, Prussian Interior Minister, co-founder of the LDPD | A9-113 | photo | ||
| Artur Landsberger | 1876 | 1933 | writer | not received | |||
| Tilly Lauenstein | 1916 | 2002 | Actress and voice actress | ||||
| Heinrich Lautensack | 1881 | 1919 | writer | not received | |||
| Hans Lietzmann | 1875 | 1942 | Theologian, church historian | A8-UW-69 | photo | ||
| Paul Liman | 1860 | 1916 | writer | not received | |||
| Georgia Lind | 1905 | 1984 | actress | A6-UW-126 | photo | ||
| Walter List | 1898 | 1987 | Politician | x | B7-UW4-27 | photo | |
| Michel Lock | 1848 | 1898 | sculptor | A5 | photo | ||
| Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell | 1855 | 1931 | Politician and Prussian Interior Minister | A east 119-120 | photo | ||
| Theo Mackeben | 1897 | 1953 | Composer, pianist and conductor | A5-UW-118 | photo | ||
| Will Meisel | 1897 | 1967 | Composer, music publisher | C11-1-1 / 3 | photo | ||
| Dénes from Mihály | 1894 | 1953 | Engineer and inventor | D11-12-9 | photo | ||
| Heinrich Müller-Breslau | 1851 | 1925 | Professor of statics and bridge construction | former room 7a, wall B, no.146 | photo | Abandoned in 2009 | |
| Selma Nicklass-Kempner | 1850 | 1928 | Singer and singing teacher | not received | |||
| Ernst Niekisch | 1889 | 1967 | Politician, author and publisher of the magazine Resistance | Room 13, Wall C, Row 2, No. 2 | photo | ||
| Heinz van Nouhuys | 1929 | 2005 | Publisher and journalist | ||||
| Richard Ohmann | 1850 | 1910 | sculptor | C1-3 / 8 | photo | ||
| Helmut Ollk | 1911 | 1979 | architect | C5-UW 1/21 | |||
| Otto Ostrowski | 1883 | 1963 | Politician and Lord Mayor of Greater Berlin | D1-1-6 | photo | ||
| Paul Otto | 1878 | 1943 | actor | not received | |||
| August of Parseval | 1861 | 1942 | Airship designer | not received | |||
| Albert Patry | 1864 | 1938 | actor | not received | |||
| Reinhard Peters | 1926 | 2008 | Conductor and musician | photo | |||
| Ida Perry | 1877 | 1966 | actress | ||||
| Rudolf Platte | 1904 | 1984 | actor | since 2010 | A6-UW-126 | photo | |
| Kurt Pomplun | 1910 | 1977 | Writer and local historian | since 1978 | B1-UW-53 | photo | |
| Ludwig Preller | 1897 | 1974 | Social politician | D3-1-31 | photo | ||
| Max Rabes | 1868 | 1944 | painter | not received | |||
| Kurt Reimann | 1913 | 2001 | Singer | A2-102 | photo | ||
| Jakob Riesser | 1853 | 1932 | Lawyer, politician and banking specialist | not received | |||
| Willy Römer | 1887 | 1979 | Press photographer | Room 20, Wall D, Row 1, No. 2 | photo | ||
| Max Runze | 1849 | 1931 | Protestant pastor, member of parliament and author | not received | |||
| Erich Schellow | 1915 | 1995 | actor | D4-39 | photo | ||
| Eugene Schiffer | 1860 | 1954 | Politician | since 1997 | D7-4-4 / 6 | photo | |
| Hubert Schmidt | 1864 | 1933 | Prehistoric professor at the University of Berlin | not received | |||
| Fritz Schmidt-Clausing | 1902 | 1984 | Pastor and theologian | formerly C12-1 / 12 | Abandoned in 2009 | ||
| Otto Schnock | 1865 | 1922 | Architect and city councilor in Wilmersdorf | B11 | photo | ||
| Otto Schramm | 1845 | 1902 | Founder of the seaside resort at Wilmersdorfer See | A West 21-24 | photo | ||
| Friedrich Schröder | 1910 | 1972 | Composer and conductor | C3-3-16 / 17 | photo | ||
| F. Albert Schwartz | 1836 | 1906 | Berlin landscape and architecture photographer | not received | |||
| Rolf Schwedler | 1914 | 1981 | Politician and Berlin Senator | since 1984 | D10-UW2-4a | photo | |
| Heinrich Seeling | 1852 | 1932 | architect | x | A1-UW-4 | photo | |
| Vera Skoronel | 1906 | 1932 | dancer | not received | |||
| Senta Söneland | 1882 | 1934 | actress | not received | |||
| Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt | 1901 | 1988 | Music critic and composer | Room 12, Wall C, Row 10, No. 4 | photo | ||
| Hans Stuewe | 1901 | 1976 | Actor and director | D2-UW-40 | without tombstone | ||
| Walther Suessenguth | 1900 | 1964 | Actor and director | E5-UW-217 | photo | ||
| Guido Thielscher | 1859 | 1941 | actor | 1952-2015 | D3-1-8 / 11 | photo | |
| Richard Thieme | 1876 | 1948 | Horticultural architect | not received | |||
| Rudolf Tobias | 1873 | 1918 | Composer and university professor | Transferred to Estonia in 1992 | |||
| Heinz Tovote | 1864 | 1946 | writer | not received | |||
| Cuno from Uechtritz-Steinkirch | 1856 | 1908 | sculptor | not received | |||
| Emma Vely | 1848 | 1934 | Writer and salonnière | not received | |||
| Wolfgang Völz | 1930 | 2018 | actor | photo | |||
| Georg Voss | 1854 | 1932 | Art historian | not received | |||
| Hans Wallenberg | 1907 | 1977 | Journalist and newspaper founder | Room 10, No. 53b | photo | ||
| Hildegard Wegscheider | 1897 | 1953 | Pedagogue and school reformer | since 1956 | C7-3-12 | photo | |
| Rolf Weih | 1906 | 1969 | actor | ||||
| Herbert Weissbach | 1901 | 1995 | actor | C9-Ur-137 | photo | ||
| Lilli Wislicenus-Finzelberg | 1872 | 1939 | sculptor | A East 85-87 | photo | ||
| Hans Wislicenus | 1864 | 1939 | Painter | A East 85-87 | photo | ||
| Hermann Wislicenus | 1825 | 1899 | History painter | A East 85-87 | photo | ||
| Margarethe von Witzleben | 1853 | 1917 | Founder of the hearing impaired movement in Germany | since 1995 | D5b-1-22 | photo | |
| Inge Wolffberg | 1924 | 2010 | Actress and cabaret artist | ||||
| Ignaz Zadek | 1858 | 1931 | Politician, "worker doctor" | 1990-2014 | B2-UW-123 | photo | |
| Alfred Zehden | 1876 | 1948 | Engineer and inventor | photo | |||
| Fedor von Zobeltitz | 1857 | 1934 | writer | 1952-2014 | Room 7a, wall B, no.123 | photo |
literature
- Fritz Grüder: The new flame burial in the cemetery in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 42, No. 75, September 16, 1922, pp. 449–451.
- Berlin and its buildings, Part X, Volume A Systems and structures for supply: (3) Funeral services . Wilhelm Ernst, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-433-00890-6 , pp. 31–32, 76–77 and 116–117.
- A shadow's dream is the person / Berlin cemeteries part 1 (CD-ROM). GBBB e. V., Berlin 1997.
- Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-7759-0476-X , pp. 204-211.
- Jörg Haspel, Klaus von Krosigk (eds.): Garden monuments in Berlin: Friedhöfe (= contributions to the preservation of monuments in Berlin . Vol. 27). Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86568-293-2 , pp. 39-42.
Web links
- Wilmersdorf cemetery on the website of the Green Space Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
- Historical plans of the Wilmersdorf cemetery
Remarks
- ↑ Much more often one encounters the depiction of a lowered torch as a symbol of death in cemeteries.
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of Berlin cemeteries (PDF; 84 kB) Senate Department for Urban Development
- ↑ Entry in the Berlin state monument list, Wilmersdorf municipal cemetery, occupancy areas A, B, D
- ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List, Wilmersdorf municipal cemetery, crematorium
- ^ Berlin and its buildings: Funeral Services , p. 116.
- ↑ a b Udo Christoffel (Ed.): Berlin-Wilmersdorf - The years 1920 to 1945 . Wilhelm Möller, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-9801001-1-1 , p. 245
- ^ Berlin and its buildings: Funeral Services , p. 117.
- ↑ Wilmersdorf crematorium - abandoned in the Lexicon of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district
- ↑ Wilmersdorf cemetery on the website of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Green Space Office
- ↑ Garden monuments in Berlin: Friedhöfe , p. 39
- ↑ Garden monuments in Berlin: Friedhöfe , p. 42
- ^ Description of the grave site on berliner-grabmale-retten.de
- ^ Photo of the mourning sculpture in the Vvedenskoye Cemetery in Moscow
- ↑ Honorary graves of the State of Berlin (PDF; as of July 2016)
- ^ Photo in the biography Curt Bois on Cabaret Berlin / Exploring the entertainment of the Weimar era
- ^ Gravestone art, 5th episode, Fritz Schumacher in the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin
- ↑ Lexicon of Berlin Tombs, p. 471
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 6.6 " N , 13 ° 18 ′ 39.6" E