Heidefriedhof (Berlin)

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Central line of sight of the cemetery

The Heidefriedhof is an urban cemetery in the Berlin district of Mariendorf in the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district . Juniper and heather , which give the cemetery its name, are planted on its central main axis .

Location and history

Memorial stone for war victims of the last days of the fighting in 1945

The cemetery is embedded in a landscaped garden with an area of ​​210,000 m² and is located south of the Reißeckstraße not far from the center of the village of Mariendorf. The facility was built in 1951 by the architect Bernhard Kynast .

There is a memorial for war victims at the Heidefriedhof. It comprises 624 individual graves and a collective grave in which soldiers from the Second World War and civilians are buried. In the last months of the war, more and more burials had to be carried out, so that the existing inner-city cemeteries soon reached their limits. In order to contain the risk of epidemics , emergency burial sites were set up, for example on the Bäumerplan at St. Josef Hospital (the former reserve hospital No. 111) or at Wenckebach Hospital (former reserve hospital No. 122). Around 250 and 350 dead were buried here. At the instigation of the Horticultural Department, these dead were reburied in individual graves for hygienic reasons in March 1952. The dead, whose identification was no longer possible, were buried in a collective grave, which was marked with a 9.5 meter high wooden cross. In 2002 the grave crosses were renewed. The dates of the dead were completed and the large wooden cross was restored in the winter of 2016; From August to November 2017, the small wooden crosses were exchanged for crosses made of dark granite.

Column-shaped name plates on the urn burials without individual grave sites

In 2009, the cemetery was the main venue on Berlin Cemetery Day .

Types of burial

The following types of burial are offered at the Heidefriedhof (urn and earth burials are carried out in almost all departments, so there are no pure urn or earth burial departments):

  • Community ashes graves (scattering the ashes from the ash capsule)
  • Earth burials without an individual grave site
  • Earth community graves ( community burial in a designed community grave)
  • Earth row graves (no extension of usage rights possible at the grave site)
  • Elective burial sites (also multi-digit, extension of usage rights is possible)
  • Urn burials without an individual grave site
  • Urn community graves ( community burial in a designed community grave)
  • Urn row graves (no extension of usage rights possible at the grave site)
  • Urn election graves (extension of usage rights is possible)
  • Urn wall graves (in a columbarium )

Graves (selection)

grave sites that have since been closed:

  • Egon Kaiser (1901–1982), musician and band leader of the 1930s
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View of the collective grave in the area of ​​the war victims facility

See also

Web links

Commons : Heidefriedhof  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heidefriedhof Tempelhof ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website from berlin.de, accessed on July 22, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlin.de
  2. ↑ a b Heidefriedhof Tempelhof , website of the Senate Department for Urban Development and Environment, accessed on July 21, 2012.
  3. ↑ Anja Brandt: This year's "Day of the Cemetery" shows a changing cemetery landscape . In: Tagesspiegel , September 19, 2009, accessed on July 21, 2012.

Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 19.2 "  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 28.5"  E