Cross cemetery
The Kreuz-Friedhof , also Kreuzkirchhof , is a Protestant cemetery in the Lankwitz district of the Berlin district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf .
It is located at Malteserstrasse 123-133, right next to the Luther cemetery . In addition to the main entrance on Malteserstrasse, there is an entrance on Tambacher Strasse. One of Berlin's main hiking trails, the North-South Path , leads across the 23,700 m² cemetery . The Tabea children's burial site is a section in the cemetery. The funeral services for funerals in the Keuzkirchhof take place in the Lutherkirchhof cemetery chapel.
history
The Kreuzkirchhof was laid out in 1930 and the first burial took place on August 15, 1931. Since the 1950s, the cemetery has been under the joint administration of the three evangelical parishes Paul-Schneider, Dreifaltigkeit and Luther ( cemetery administration of the Evangelical parishes of Lankwitz and Luther ) and is now supported by the joint cemetery commission ( cemetery commission of the evangelical parishes of Lankwitz and Luther ).
Tabea children's burial site
As the first children's burial site in Berlin, the burial facility for miscarried and stillborn babies (so-called star children ) and deceased small children (up to kindergarten age) was opened on April 24, 2002 at the Kreuz cemetery. It is named after the biblical tabea .
The facility is family-friendly, with benches and a sand box . In the center stands an angel statue from which the grave fields spread out in a star shape. Each of the children has their own grave.
The relatives, especially the orphaned parents, are offered individual support by the initiators. The initiators are the cemetery administration, the undertaker Ruth Strebhardt and the association TABEA e. V., whose main activity is grief counseling . Until her death in 2010, the patron was Hanna-Renate Laurien .
Importance for nature conservation
The cemetery, like the neighboring Luther cemetery, with which it practically forms a unit, is characterized by an old tree population; the transition to the Luther cemetery is almost imperceptible or fluid. Due to the quiet location and the island function in the urban environment, both cemeteries, like the inner-city cemeteries in general, are of great importance for the protection of species and biotopes, not least as a habitat and food space for nesting songbirds .
Graves of famous people
- Herbert Richter (1901–1944), architect, executed as a resistance fighter - honorary grave of the State of Berlin
- Hermann Marchand (1864–1945), lawyer and urban developer
- Fritz Freymüller (1882–1950), architect, municipal and urban planning officer
- Erna Maraun (1900–1959), social worker and city councilor
Web links
- Evangelical cemeteries in Berlin-Lankwitz on the website of the Evangelical Church District Steglitz
- TABEA funeral facility in the website of TABEA e. V.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cemeteries of the Evangelical Churches in Lankwitz and Luther. Historical Churchyards and Cemeteries Foundation in Berlin-Brandenburg, accessed on March 18, 2012 .
- ↑ Kreuzfriedhof. Pharus Verlag , accessed on March 18, 2012 .
- ^ Paul Hiller: Chronik Lankwitz (= preprint . Volume No. 5/6). Word & Image Specials, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-926578-19-X , p. 139.
- ↑ Unique: burial place for babies and toddlers in Lankwitz. (No longer available online.) In: District newspaper. April 2002, archived from the original on May 23, 2008 ; Retrieved March 18, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ TABEA funeral complex. (No longer available online.) In: TABEA e. V. Archived from the original on October 28, 2012 ; Retrieved September 16, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Luther- and Kreuz-Friedhof . Mater Dolorosa website , December 22, 2016, accessed July 9, 2017.
- ↑ Cf.: The bird world of the Berlin cemeteries . In: Stiftung Naturschutz Berlin (Hrsg.): Habitat Friedhof - Naturschutz auf Friedhöfen (= Grünstift Special . Vol. 23). Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-925302-31-2 , pp. 22-24, accessed on July 9, 2017 (PDF).
- ↑ According to information from the cemetery administration on April 3, 2012, the grave no longer exists (see also information on the grave of Fritz Freymüller ).
Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 10.7 ″ N , 13 ° 21 ′ 25.2 ″ E