Friedrichswerderscher Friedhof

View from Bergmannstrasse

The cemetery of the Friedrichswerder community is located on Bergmannstrasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg . It was inaugurated on January 17, 1844 and covers an area of 30,800 square meters. The chapel was only built in 1875/76.

Its boundary to the east is cemetery IV of the Jerusalem and New Church congregation, and to the west is cemetery II of the Trinity congregation . Together with these and the Luisenstadt cemetery , it belongs to the complex of cemeteries on Bergmannstrasse , which were connected to one another by breakthroughs a few decades ago.

The Friedrichswerder cemetery is the second, but the first independent cemetery of the community, after the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder communities had previously been divided. That is why it is sometimes referred to as Friedrichswerderscher Friedhof II . The cemetery administration decided this old dispute with an entrance sign to Friedrichswerderscher Friedhof .

The associated church is the Friedrichswerder Church in Berlin-Mitte , a building by Karl Friedrich Schinkel , which was first restored by the GDR after severe war damage , and then in 1997 with better material. It has been used by the Berlin Academy of the Arts since 1987 .

Graves of famous personalities

Beysing grave

Grave Schimmelbusch

Reinhard grave

Preserved graves

Carl Busse (1834–1896), architect, construction clerk, director of the Reichsdruckerei
Carl Ferdinand Busse (1802–1868), architect, director of the Bauakademie , father of Carl Busse
Hermann Clausius (1854–1925), general of the infantry
Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach (1792–1847), doctor, pioneer of plastic surgery (until 2012 Berlin grave of honor )
Eduard Grell (1800–1886), composer, director of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin ( Berlin honorary grave until 2014 ; stele with portrait medallion by Fritz Schaper )
Paul Köthner (1870–1932), chemist, anti-Semitic writer
Ernst von Leyden (1832-1910), doctor, founder of the sanatorium movement in the fight against tuberculosis ( Berlin honorary grave )
Max Missmann (1874–1945), photographer
Martin Anton Niendorf (1826–1878), writer, parliamentarian, founder of the Agrarian Party
Henriette Paalzow (1792–1847), poet
Moritz Heinrich Romberg (1795–1873), doctor, neuropathologist ( Berlin honorary grave )
August Selberg (1844–1935), politician, city elder ( Berlin honorary grave )
Conrad Heinrich Soltmann (1782–1859), pharmacist and entrepreneur
Carl Stahn (1808–1891), preacher at the Friedrichswerder Church
Franz Tübbecke (1856–1937), sculptor, pupil of Reinhold Begas
Karl Wilhelm Wach (1787–1845), history painter
Hermann Weigand (1854–1926), politician, city elder, government architect ( Berlin honorary grave )

Graves not preserved

Friedrich Adler (1827–1908), senior building officer, building history researcher
Heinrich Oberländer (1834–1911), actor and acting teacher
Karl Adolph Paalzow (1823–1908), physicist
Rudolf Rabe (1805–1883), Prussian civil servant and minister of state
Alexander Tondeur (1829–1905), sculptor

Artistically outstanding tombs

Julius Heese, silk manufacturer, historistisches Mausoleum (erb. 1897), as today columbarium used
Paul Köthner (1848–1902), wall grave designed by Erdmann & Spindler in the Art Nouveau style made of red granite with a bronze portrait bust and bronze reliefs by Lilli Finzelberg
Grave site Rönnebeck (born 1878), wall grave with mosaic
Seeger burial site (born 1862), mausoleum
Grave site Spinn (born 1893), family of manufacturers, mausoleum in the form of a Gothic chapel

literature

Dagmar Girra, Ralph Jaeckel, Heike Laubrich, Heidrun Siebenhühner, Hans-Jürgen Mende : Friedrichswerderscher Friedhof II / Ein Friedhofsführer . Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89542-141-3 .