Johann Christian August Sponholz

Grave monument for August Sponholz on the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf

Johann Christian August Sponholz (* December 25, 1827 ; † 1907 ) was a Berlin merchant, landowner and land speculator.

Similar to the entrepreneur Johann Anton Wilhelm von Carstenn , Sponholz bought land from the manor Deutsch-Wilmersdorf, which at that time still belonged to the Teltow district and, from 1873, parceled out the neighboring area of the 600-meter-long Sponholzstrasse in today's Berlin district of Schöneberg, which was named after him from 1884 .

One year after the purchase of the property, in 1874 the neighboring district of Friedenau became an independent municipality in the Teltow district, and the value of the properties increased considerably. Sponholz had two to three-story houses with spacious apartments built on both sides of “his” street.

In order to keep the Wannseebahn running in the immediate vicinity in Friedenau in times of poor roads and transport connections , Sponholz negotiated with the non-profit association Friedenau and the management of the Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburg railway company : from November 1874 initially made 14, later 21 trains a day Stop at the newly built Friedenau train station , for which Sponholz had collected 6000 gold marks with banks and other real estate companies  .

The greenhouse-style station building is the only one of the Wannsee railway stations that has been preserved in half-timbered construction to this day . The station has two tracks with a central platform and a tunnel access from Dürerplatz to the east and Bahnhofsstraße to the west. One part of the building houses a small daytime cafe with a terrace.

On Sponholz's grave slab in the Stahnsdorf south-west cemetery (reburial burials 15), the profession “ reindeer ” is written. The original burial took place in the Schöneberg cemetery of the St. Matthew parish in Großgörschenstrasse. Albert Speer had the monumental wall grave dismantled in 1939 and rebuilt in Stahnsdorf.