Luther cemetery
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The Luther cemetery , also called Lutherkirchhof , is a Protestant cemetery in the Lankwitz district of the Berlin district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf . It is named after the reformer Martin Luther .
location
The Luther cemetery is located immediately north of the neighboring Kreuz cemetery in the southeast of the Lankwitz district at Malteserstraße 113–121 and is around 37,000 square meters in size. At its south-western end, it can be entered via the end of Tambacher Straße .
The cemetery originally belonged to the Evangelical Luther Church Community in Schöneberg , to which the property was sold in 1900 by the then Lankwitz community.
The green main Berlin hiking trail number 5, the north-south path , leads directly over the Luther cemetery.
layout
A monumental gateway with a wrought iron cross on the gable draws attention to the entrance to the cemetery. The cemetery chapel is on the right and the administration building on the left. The entire ensemble , created in 1902 by the architect Jürgen Kröger , is a listed building .
Despite being a listed building, this cemetery is also breaking new ground. In the shadow of the cemetery chapel, columbaria were created in the open air. This area of the cemetery is continuously being expanded. The funeral ceremonies for funerals in the neighboring Kreuz cemetery also take place in the chapel of the Luther cemetery.
The cemetery is characterized by old trees and numerous large rhododendrons ; the transition to the Kreuz-Friedhof 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 biodiversity and the existence of the bird world, especially for nesting songbirds .
Crosses on and on the portal gable, seen from the cemetery
Cemetery chapel (front)
Cemetery chapel (western side)
Columbaria on the north corner of the cemetery
Blooming rhododendrons in May
Graves of famous people
- Wilhelm Kube (1887–1943), journalist, Gauleiter of Brandenburg and General Commissioner for the General District of Belarus in Minsk.
- Louise Nordmann (1829–1911), Harfenjule , Berlin original
- Klaus Riebschläger (1940–2009), German politician
- Carl Woitschach (1864–1939), music director and composer
- Werner Zehden (1911–1991), politician and city elder - honorary grave of the State of Berlin
administration
Since the 1950s it has been administered by the joint cemetery administration of the 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 of the Evangelical parishes of Lankwitz and Luther .
Web links
- Protestant cemeteries in Berlin-Lankwitz . Website of the Evangelical Church District Steglitz.
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Hiller: Chronik Lankwitz (= preprint . Volume No. 5/6). Word & Image Specials, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-926578-19-X , p. 138.
- ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- ^ Luther- and Kreuz-Friedhof . Mater Dolorosa website , December 22, 2016, accessed July 9, 2017.
- ↑ 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 , accessed on July 9, 2017 (PDF).
- ↑ Ev. Luther-Friedhof Lankwitz, Berlin-Steglitz at genealogy.net
- ↑ Cemeteries of the Evangelical Churches Lankwitz and Luther, Z-26-27
- ↑ Query of the honorary graves ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Berlin.de, accessed on February 28, 2012.
Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 14 " N , 13 ° 21 ′ 24.2" E