St. Matthias Cemetery (Berlin-Tempelhof)

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Entrance board in front of the Sankt Matthias Friedhof
Saint Fidelis Church at the entrance to the Saint Matthias Cemetery

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

Site plan carved in stone at the entrance to the cemetery
( ± = honor grave of the state of Berlin)
  • Saint Matthias Cemetery

  • 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

  • Marian column on the grave of Anna Büttner on the mountain of the St. Matthias cemetery

  • Place in the Sankt Matthias Cemetery

  • Crucifix in the Sankt Matthias Cemetery

Consequences of war

Memorial plaque on the Church of Saint Fidelis

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.

  • Bronze statue

  • Mourning female bronze figure

  • Bullet hole on the back of the bronze figure

  • Memorial plaque on the bronze statue

Web links

Commons : Friedhof der St. Matthiasgemeinde (Berlin-Tempelhof)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Parish archives St. Matthias, cemetery files, construction of a cemetery chapel 1913/1914
  2. ^ 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