Laurentius Cemetery (Berlin)
The cemetery of the Laurentiusgemeinde or Friedhof der Evangelischen St.-Laurentius-Stadtkirchengemeinde is a burial place in Berlin in the Treptow-Köpenick district in the Köpenick district . The address of the cemetery is Rudower Straße 23. The cemetery is a protected garden monument .
history
In 1803, the Protestant parish of the Laurentiuskirche acquired part of the Köpenick administrative area and had it prepared as a burial place. The cemetery was inaugurated on December 15, 1811. Wall graves from this period have been preserved on the northern wall after the inauguration. In 1822 the Buntzel family's crypt chapel , also known as the mausoleum , was built. This chapel was converted into a memorial hall in 1928. There are old grave signs in the hall.
In 1831 a field was added to the cemetery for people who had died of cholera . As early as 1846, the burial area had to be enlarged by another 10 acres . Due to the incorporation of Schönerlinde into the city of Cöpenick in 1879, the cemetery of this village was added to the existing one. There were further expansions in the years 1883, 1889 and 1891.
The cemetery chapel was built in 1880 according to plans and under the direction of master bricklayer Schmidt from Köpenick. In 1926 the chapel was redesigned in the Expressionist style. The architect Otto Firle planned and carried out the renovation . Firle also designed the administration building, which was built until 1930. The bell tower was added in the 1950s. In this tower hangs a bell from 1561, cast by the Brandenburg bell caster Andreas Moldenhauer.
A new wall was built on Adlershofer Straße in 1897, on which hereditary burials were built. A field for those who died in the First World War was set up at the main entrance in 1915 . From 1939 to 1945 it was expanded to accommodate those who fell in the Second World War . In 1969 the figure was Mourners of Peter Goettsche erected. The burial ground was simplified in 1995.
Graves (selection)
The following graves are worth mentioning:
- Bernoulli burial site; The mathematician, astronomer and lawyer Johann III Bernoulli was among other things director of the Berlin observatory. He was buried in the old cemetery in 1807. The wife was buried in the new cemetery since the old one was closed in 1811. Johann Bernoulli was also reburied in the new cemetery. A cast iron cross stands on the grave, the design comes from Karl Friedrich Schinkel . The current location is not the original burial site.
- Frankenberg grave site: The grave column with decorative urn is located directly at the main entrance. It was originally in the Schönerlinder cemetery. It commemorates the major and first commander of the royal riding hunter corps Franz Adam von Frankenberg-Proschlitz (1724–1799) and his wife Charlotte Juliane born. Sellin (1745-1786); probably an ancestor of Egbert von Frankenberg and Proschlitz . An urn with a square handle and a flame as a knob stands on the column made of sandstone . The inscription reads: Gently rest his ashes .
- Grundmann grave site: The grave site is on the eastern wall of the cemetery, approximately at the level of the chapel. The wall grave was erected in 1897. A brick wall surface is clad with black Labrador granite . In the middle there is an aedicula with two columns. In the middle is a head of Christ made of white marble by Heinrich Pohlmann .
- Landrock Tomb: The long, rectangular tomb is on the left on the main path to the chapel. It was created for the laundry owner Heinrich Wilhelm Landrock in 1926. The corners are marked by two figures, on the left a woman who represents eternal sleep , on the right a man with an anchor who represents hope. There is a cenotaph in the middle .
- Langerhans grave ( honorary grave of the State of Berlin ): Georg Langerhans was mayor of Köpenick from 1904–1918 .
- Grave site Lücken: The grave site is located near the main entrance opposite the war cemetery. The wall tomb is made of yellow clinker, the eye-catcher is a marble relief. The relief comes from the workshop of Johann Bernhard Afinger (1882) and is entitled after work . It shows a woman with four children and a putto in a room of a house.
- Römer grave site: Two sandstone slabs have been preserved from the grave site; they have been located to the right and left of the main entrance since 1931. The grave slabs came from the old cemetery. They remember the former mayor Christian Römer (1648–1701) and his wife Catharina, born in 1709, who died in 1709. Schmid. On the plate for Christian Römer there is a twenty-line inscription that tells about the life of the mayor.
literature
- Garden monuments in Berlin, cemeteries, edited by Jörg Haspel and Klaus von Krosigk, Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, edited by Katrin Lesser, Jörg Kuhn, Detlev Pietzsch and others. Contributions to the preservation of monuments in Berlin 27, 2008, pages 337–342, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg, ISBN 978-3-86568-293-2
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Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 31 ″ N , 13 ° 33 ′ 54 ″ E