St. Matthias Cemetery (Berlin-Tempelhof)
The Catholic St. Matthias Cemetery of Schöneberg community St. Matthias is on the Röblingstraße 87-117 in the district of Tempelhof the district Tempelhof-Schöneberg of Berlin . It was laid out in 1892 in an area that belonged to the municipality of Mariendorf , but was ceded to Tempelhof in 1920. A total of twelve Catholic parishes were buried in this cemetery.
Uniformly designed grave monuments are distributed throughout the cemetery, reminding visitors of the Way of the Cross of Jesus Christ . They will not be cleared after the occupancy periods have expired, but will be re-let. The station of the cross Jesus is placed in the grave , currently occupied by the Ernst family, is adorned with a relief by Wilhelm Haverkamp , which has been preserved in a smaller, cheaper version in other German cemeteries.
A round cemetery chapel with a mortuary was planned by the architect Carl Kühn in the middle of the cemetery in 1913/1914 , but was not implemented due to the First World War . In the years 1926 to 1927, at the instigation of the pastor of St. Matthias , Clemens August Graf von Galen , the church of St. Fidelis was built at the entrance to the cemetery.
Graves of famous people
- ( ± = honor grave of the state of Berlin)
- Meta Alexander (1924–1999), internist
- ± Eduard Bernoth (1892–1972), local politician, city elder of Berlin 1963
- Maximilian Beyer (1872–1937), Catholic theologian
- Joseph Breitkopf-Cosel (1876–1927), sculptor, with his own sculpture Last Refuge
- Werner Dolata (1927–2015), politician (CDU)
- ± Johanna Eck (1888–1979), persecuted people hidden under National Socialism
- Joachim C. Fest (1926–2006), historian and publicist
- ± Johannes Fest (1889–1960), local politician, city elder of Berlin 1960
- ± Klaus Dieter Friedrich (1930–2003), politician, city elder of Berlin 1998, mayor of Steglitz
- August Froehlich (1891–1942), Catholic priest , pastor , resistance fighter against National Socialism and martyr
- Dorothee Goebeler (1867–1945), writer, 35 books
- ± Johann Baptist Gradl (1904–1988), politician, honorary citizen of Berlin
- Marianne Hapig (1894–1973), first Catholic hospital welfare worker , opponent of the Nazi dictatorship
- Peter Hille (1854–1904), poet
- Valentin Anton Kielinger (1901–1969), lawyer, politician
- Erich Klausener (1885–1934), chairman of the Catholic Action , murdered in the course of the Röhm putsch (the urn was transferred to the Maria Regina Martyrum church on May 4, 1963 and buried in the crypt.)
- Richard Knötel (1857–1914), history painter (leveled?)
- Heinrich Kreil (1885–1967), trade unionist and politician ( center , CDU )
- Wolfgang Kühne (1905–1969), actor, director, translator
- ± Johannes Müller (1905–1992), politician, city elder of Berlin 1986
- Ernst Nolte (1923–2016), historian and philosopher
- Emil Palm (1890–1963) composer
- Johannes Pinsk (1891–1957), Catholic priest, pastor of Mater Dolorosa
- Marianne Pünder (1898–1980), lecturer and director at the Social Women's School of the Catholic German Women's Association in Berlin, opponent of the Nazi dictatorship
- Louis Schaurté (1851–1934), “old master” of the Berlin catering trade
- Peter Schulze-Rohr (1926–2007), director and screenwriter
- Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling (1904–1985), composer
- Engelbert Seibertz (1856–1929), architect of the Schöneberg St. Matthias Church (grave leveled)
- Margarete Sommer (1893–1965), social worker, Righteous Among the Nations
- Peter Spahn (1846–1925), politician, higher regional judge, minister of state
- Kurt Tetzeli von Rosador (1940–2009), English specialist, translator, writer
- Carl Thiel (1862–1939), church musician
- Johannes Vehlow (1890–1958), funeral motto: "A life for royal science"
- Ludwig Vordermayer (1868–1933), sculptor
Angel by Martin Schauß for the inheritance check , signed: "Martin Schauß Roma 1899"
Grave of the sculptor Ludwig Vordermayer
Memorial for Erich Klausener
Wilhelm Haverkamp :
XIV Station of the Cross -
The body of Jesus is placed in the grave , 1909
Consequences of war
During the Second World War , the cemetery was fought over between 1942 and 1945 and was criss-crossed by trenches .
The church of St. Fidelis , consecrated in 1927, to the right of the main entrance, was destroyed in a bomb attack in World War II in 1943 and rebuilt in a modified form in 1951.
In area E of the cemetery there is a mourning, female bronze statue from 1942 with a height of one and a half meters, which stood at a grave site until 1995. On the back there is a bullet hole at heart level because the statue was believed to be a living person. In 2008 the figure was repositioned with a view of the war graves in the cemetery. A plaque to the right of the statue commemorates this.
Web links
- The St. Matthias cemetery
- Sankt-Matthias-Friedhof on the website of the Mater Dolorosa community in Berlin-Lankwitz
Individual evidence
- ^ Parish archives St. Matthias, cemetery files, construction of a cemetery chapel 1913/1914
- ^ Memorial Church of the German Catholics Maria Regina Martyrum in honor of the martyrs for freedom of belief and conscience in the years 1933–1945. More Verlag, Berlin 1963, p. 74.
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '15.3 " N , 13 ° 21' 48.3" E