Saint Simeon and Saint Luke churchyard

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Entrance sign at Tempelhofer Weg 9

The churchyard of St. Simeon and St. Luke , also St. Simeon-St. Lukas , is a Protestant cemetery in the Britz district of Berlin's Neukölln district . The namesake are the saints Simeon the old man and Luke the Evangelist . Originally it was used as a burial for the congregations of the Church of St. Luke and the Church of St. Simeon .

location

The cemetery has an area of ​​over 11 hectares and is located northeast of Tempelhofer Weg, northwest of Karl-Elsässer-Strasse and west of Andreasberger Strasse. At the northern end of the site there is a tunnel of the federal motorway 100 , on the other side of which is the Emmauskirchhof. There is an industrial area to the west and south of the cemetery and a residential area to the east.

Cemetery chapel

In the center of the cemetery is a cemetery chapel made of red brick. There is a waiting hall next to it.

history

Monument to Carl Elsasser

The cemetery was built in 1897 on the historic Tempelhofer Weg road (today house number 9) at the suggestion of Carl Elsasser , who was buried there in 1911. In 1905 there were only four houses in the area of ​​the cemetery, two of which belonged to gardeners.

Before 1935, several old coins were found on the grounds of the cemetery, which were displayed in the Neukölln Heimatmuseum and have been missing there since 1963.

Memorial cross at the war graves

In one part of the area there are graves of fallen soldiers from the First and Second World Wars, and in another there is a Yezidi burial ground.

Since 1960, Berlin has the Baunutzungsplan , which provides for residential use for closed partial areas of the cemetery. For the construction of the Intercession Church from 1964 to 1966, part of the cemetery was purchased on which there were no graves. The Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing has been regulating the growing surplus of cemeteries in Berlin since 2006 . Because of changed forms of burial and a falling death rate, several peripheral areas have been abandoned since 2012. The southern corner of the original cemetery has been removed and is now used by a supermarket.

Graves of famous people

  • Carl Elsasser (1822–1911), real secret councilor and founder of the cemetery
  • Joachim Lipschitz (1918–1961), politician, honorary grave of the State of Berlin
  • Lothar Schulz (1904–1976), politician, honorary grave of the State of Berlin

administration

The cemetery administration is the responsibility of the main administration south of the Evangelical Cemetery Association Berlin Stadtmitte (evfbs).

Web links

Commons : Churchyard Saint Simeon and Saint Luke  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Marie-Luise Hornbogen: Today cemetery. Residential area tomorrow? - Case study Berlin on cemetery development in urban planning , volume 57, page 98f., Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin, 2016, ISBN 9783798327931
  2. ^ The found coins of the Roman era in Germany , page 202, German Archaeological Institute, Roman-Germanic Commission, Verlag Gebrüder Mann, 1997
  3. ↑ Announcement of the closure and lifting of cemetery areas at the St. Simeon u. St. Lukas , Evangelischer Friedhofsverband Berlin Stadtmitte (evfbs), accessed on March 20, 2020
  4. ↑ Closure and suspension of cemetery areas , Evangelischer Friedhofsverband Berlin Stadtmitte (evfbs), December 2016, accessed on March 20, 2020

Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 37.5 ″  N , 13 ° 25 ′ 27 ″  E