Gatow Landscape Cemetery
The landscape cemetery Gatow is an approximately 18-hectare cemetery in Berlin district Gatow in the Spandau district .
Location and history
With the In den Kisseln cemetery, the Spandau district has a 62-hectare site in the Falkenhagener Feld district . It has been expanded several times in the last few decades, the last time from 1964 to 1972. Already at that time people were thinking about a new system, but the plans became obsolete with the construction of the Berlin Wall . In 1969, therefore, plans began to establish another cemetery on the former sewage fields in Gatow. The Gatow landscape cemetery was opened on October 27, 1982 after a construction period of six years. Soon after, however, it was found that the demand was not as high as expected. In order to expand the cemetery for further groups, an Islamic grave field was set up on October 3, 1988 , on which the grave sites are oriented towards Mecca . These areas were expanded again in 2012. 8000 m² were redesigned, so that around 900 election graves were created. Since October 11, 1994, the dead of the Greek Orthodox faith can also be buried in a separate part.
If you enter the site through the main entrance, the first thing you notice is the detached bell tower. There is a commemorative plaque for the painter and graphic artist Wolfgang Peuker . On the right hand side is the chapel with a capacity of 126 seats. It was built in 1982 and 1983 by the Spandau Building Department and has three bronze bells.
Graves (selection)
- Yun I-sang (1917–1995), German composer of Korean descent
- Kadir Nurman (1933–2013), inventor of the doner kebab in Berlin / Germany
- Hatun Sürücü (1982-2005), a German of Kurdish origin who fell victim to a so-called honor killing
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulla Hanselmann: The face to Mecca . In: Der Spiegel , March 25, 2008, accessed July 20, 2013.
- ^ Michael Uhde: New area in the landscape cemetery . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Berliner Woche , November 29, 2012, accessed on July 20, 2013.
- ↑ New Islamic grave areas completed at the Gatow Landscape Cemetery . Press release of the Berlin Senate of November 26, 2012, accessed on July 20, 2013.
- ↑ Klaus-Dieter Wille, Lothar Fender: The bells of Berlin (West): history and inventory . Gebrüder Mann Verlag, 1987, ISBN 978-3-7861-1443-7 (accessed July 20, 2013).
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 47.4 " N , 13 ° 9 ′ 14.5" E