II. Reinickendorf municipal cemetery
The state-owned cemetery Reinickendorf is located in Humboldt street in the Berlin district of Reinickendorf . It was laid out in 1897 near the old Humboldt Hospital. It was originally opened as the second cemetery in Reinickendorf. Since the 1970s, if possible, all victims of two world wars in the district have been reburied in the first cemetery. The move was completed in 2003. The former first Reinickendorf cemetery is now called Reinickendorf War Cemetery , the II. Reinickendorf Municipal Cemetery thus became the Reinickendorf Cemetery.
The current Reinickendorf cemetery covers 15.7 hectares . Carl Moritz's celebration hall (built in 1897) is a listed building.
Graves of famous people
- Otto Beyer (1885–1962), painter and graphic artist
- Klaus Brueske (1938–1962), victim of the Berlin Wall
- Fritz Hausberg (1880–1959), local politician, 1955 city elder ( honorary grave of the State of Berlin)
- Meta Omankowsky (1902–1984), member of the Berlin House of Representatives , 1972 City Elder (honorary grave of the State of Berlin)
- Hermann Schulz (resistance fighter) (1890–1942), German resistance fighter
- Olga Segler (1881–1961), victim of the Berlin Wall
Arthur Strousberg's tomb
The Reinickendorf cemetery has a special attraction, namely the tomb for Arthur Strousberg , the son of the "railway king" and speculator Bethel Henry Strousberg who died of consumption at the age of 23 in 1873 . He had the son buried in the family mausoleum in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg and commissioned the renowned sculptor Reinhold Begas with a magnificent tomb.
The life-size group of figures shows the grieving wife who holds the right hand of Arthur, who has just died. He is lying on a sarcophagus , at his feet two naked children (or putti ) are playing with wreaths of roses. A child looks at him questioningly. An hourglass has fallen over on the floor .
Arthur Strousberg's tomb
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Pillar hall by Richard Ermisch
When the artist finished the model in 1874, Strousberg was bankrupt and the tomb could no longer be executed. It wasn't until 1900 that Begas had it cast in bronze at his own expense , to be shown at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris , where it won a Grand Prix . When Reinhold Begas died, the city of Berlin bought the work of art from the estate and had it installed near the cemetery chapel. In 1928 Richard Ermisch built a pillar hall made of red clinker bricks , which is open to the side , to protect it from the weather. The city thus created “a place of prayer for severely tested hearts” ( Willi Wohlberedt ), where it renounced any information about the artist and background.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.gedenkenafeln-in-berlin.de/nc/gedenkenafeln/gedenkenafel-beispiel/tid/hermann-schulz-1/
Coordinates: 52 ° 34 ′ 6.4 " N , 13 ° 20 ′ 11.2" E