St. Anne's Churchyard (Berlin)

General plan of the St. Anne's churchyard and the neighboring Dahlem cemetery

St. Anne's Church (Dorfkirche Dahlem) and the churchyard surrounding it

The Protestant St. Anne's Kirchhof surrounds the St. Anne's Church and is located in the Berlin district of Dahlem . It has existed since the 13th century, its size is 2000 m².

history

When the St. Anne's Church was built on a hill in the 13th century, the St. Anne's Kirchhof was set up around the church in accordance with the then usual procedure of burying the deceased in the immediate vicinity of the church. Only the landowners were buried inside the church.

By the end of the 19th century, the churchyard had sufficient capacity to accommodate all of the community's deceased. After the division and settlement of the Dahlem domain began in 1901 , this was no longer the case. Therefore, in 1908/1909, the Dahlem municipal cemetery was laid out in the immediate vicinity of the churchyard, surrounding it in an L-shape . It is a little lower than the churchyard and is connected to it by two flights of stairs.

memorial

Memorial in the St.-Annen-Kirchhof

In 1996, a memorial was erected in the cemetery to commemorate the victims of the National Socialist tyranny, as the community under Martin Niemöller was the center of the Confessing Church . The artist Nikolaus Koliusis designed a triangular plaque with reference to the identification of the prisoners in the concentration camps . The inscription is punched out. The table is held at an angle of three meters by three bars.

War graves

19 war dead from both world wars found their final resting place in Division 16. A statue is placed in the middle of the complex. Two of the dead remained unknown.

Well-known personalities buried

Grave of Rudi Dutschke

Grave Edwin Redslob

Grave Kurt Scharf

(* = Honor grave of the state of Berlin)

• Ludwig Bartning (1876–1956), painter, Confessing Church
• Carl Friedrich von Beyme (1765–1838), lawyer and Prussian minister
• Johannes Burckhardt (1853–1914), pastor
• Carsten Colpe (1929–2009), religious scholar, New Testament scholar, Iranist
• Grete Csaki-Copony (1893–1990), painter
• Annamarie Doherr (1909–1974), journalist
• Rudi Dutschke * (1940–1979), sociologist and APO activist
• Gustav Fischer (1870–1963), agricultural technician
• Otto Heinrich von der Gablentz (1898–1972), political scientist, member of the Kreisau Circle
• Max Gary (1859–1923), building materials specialist
• Robert Gelfert (1869–1921), theologian, first pastor of the 1908 independent parish of Dahlem
• Heinz Gerischer (1919–1994), chemist
• Otto Gerstenberg (1848–1935), entrepreneur and art collector
• Dietrich Goldschmidt (1914–1998), sociologist and educational researcher
• Helmut Gollwitzer (1908–1993), theologian, Confessing Church
• Hans Bernd von Haeften (1905–1944), diplomat and resistance fighter
• Martin Hirsch (1913–1992), politician and judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
• Lizzie Hosaeus (1910–1998), artist
• Hans Jessen (1874–1930), architect a. a. the parish hall and numerous country houses in Dahlem
• Julius Kaftan (1848–1926), theologian
• Ludwig Knaus (1829–1910), painter
• Alfred Koerner (1849–1926), architect (buildings of the botanical garden )
• Helmut Krebs (1913–2007), chamber singer, tenor
• Paul Krenzlin (1868–1963), President of the Prussian Oberlandeskulturamt , Confessing Church
• Rolf Lahr (1908–1985), diplomat
• Leo Leux (1893–1951), composer
• Olga Limburg (1881–1970), actress
• Gisela Mattishent (1919–1980), actress
• Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt (1928–2002), theologian
• Friedrich Müller (1889–1942), theologian, resistance fighter , Confessing Church
• Wolf-Dieter Narr (1937–2019), political scientist, university professor
• Karl Heinz Pepper (1910–2003), businessman , builder and investor
• Gerhard Puchelt * (1913–1987), pianist, music teacher
• Edwin Redslob * (1884–1973), art historian, co-founder and rector of the Free University of Berlin
• Konrad Saenger (1869–1945), lawyer and statistician
• Richard Saran (1852–1925), architect
• Dietrich Schäfer (1845–1929), historian
• Kurt Scharf * (1902–1990), Protestant bishop of Berlin
• Elisabeth Schiemann (1881–1972), geneticist
• Friedrich Schmidt-Ott (1860–1956), politician, Prussian minister of culture
• Walther Schmieding (1928–1980), journalist, Vice President of the PEN Club
• Max Sering (1857–1939), political economist
• Gertrud Staewen (1894–1987), social worker and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
• Volker von Törne (1934–1980), social scientist and poet
• Marion Yorck von Wartenburg (1904–2007), judge, member of the Kreisau Circle
• Robert Wischer (1930–2007), architect
• Rainer Zepperitz (1930–2009), double bass player with the Berliner Philharmoniker

literature

• Thomas Leiberg: The St. Annen churchyard in Berlin-Dahlem . Stapp Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-87776-423-1 .
• Hans-Jürgen Mende, Debora Paffen: Dahlem cemetery and St.-Annen-Kirchhof - a cemetery guide. Christian Simon Verlag Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-936242-11-9 .

Web links

Commons : St. Annen-Kirchhof  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ List of Berlin cemeteries of the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development
2. ^ Jörg Haspel, Klaus von Krosigk, Landesdenkmalamt Berlin (ed.): Garden monument in Berlin: Friedhöfe . Contributions to the preservation of monuments in Berlin No. 27. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86568293-2 , pp. 270-273.
3. ↑ Stefanie Endlich: Paths to Remembrance / Memorial sites and places for the victims of National Socialism in Berlin and Brandenburg . Ed .: State Center for Political Education Berlin. Berlin 2006, p. 410 f.
4. ↑ denkfried.de
5. ↑ Honorary graves of the State of Berlin (as of September 2009) (PDF; 566 kB)

Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 32.2 "  N , 13 ° 17 ′ 9.7"  E