St. Jacobi Cemetery I

Old St. Jacobi churchyard with pilgrim grave mark / Saint St. James the Elder

The St. Jacobi Kirchhof I is the cemetery of the Protestant St. Jacobi community in Berlin-Neukölln .

history

It was laid out in 1852 on today's Karl-Marx-Straße . The property was cheap to buy because it sloped down towards Hermannplatz and the ground was sandy. The first burial took place in 1852. The gravedigger house and morgue were built from 1865 to 1866. At the beginning of the 20th century, a wide strip of the cemetery on Karl-Marx-Straße was cut off because of the underground construction . All buildings were demolished and many graves were relocated. Between 1910 and 1913, Reinhold Kiehl, the city planning officer, rebuilt the cemetery chapel and an administration building. From the entrance to Karl-Marx-Straße there is the administration building on the right and the chapel on the left, both in the style of an ancient Roman temple. They form a small square that is closed off from the cemetery by a colonnade corridor.

The cemetery area is kept simple, with the paths being designed evenly. Except for a cross in a western path, there are no other decorations of paths and places. On the lime tree avenue in the eastern part of the cemetery there are some grave graves. In the eastern part of the cemetery, an urn grove was created in a former gravel pit in 1925. The urn grove is about 4 meters lower and there are terraces facing the cemetery.

When Hermannstrasse was widened in 1956, the cemetery had to give up 14 meters. 50 trees were felled and around 3,000 graves were reburied.

The cemetery is a listed garden monument.

Well-known personalities buried

Surname	Year of birth	Year of death	Profession / work	Honor grave	Grave tray	Image of the grave	Remarks
Ernst Articus	1876	1947	President of the Reich Debt Administration
Friedrich Christian Avé-Lallemant	1809	1892	Criminalist and Writer				not available anymore
Bruno Bauer	1809	1882	Philosopher, theologian and historian				reburied in the New St. Jacobi Cemetery
Wolfgang Bernhardi	1840	1896	writer				not available anymore
Georg Friedrich Bolte	1814	1877	History painter		B2-323
Johannes Bolte	1858	1937	Germanist and folklorist	1990-2014	JBII-322
Rudolf Fuess	1838	1917	Precision mechanic and designer	1990-2015	B II-317a-319
Otto Girndt	1835	1911	writer		Dept. G		not available anymore
Max Hahn	1899	1960	Cyclist and bicycle designer
Eduard Holbein	1807	1875	Painter and illustrator
Reinhold Kiehl	1874	1913	Architect and Neukölln City Planning Officer
Heinrich Kiepert	1818	1899	Geographer and cartographer	1962-2014	CI-61/62
Hermann Kletke	1813	1886	Writer and editor in chief				not available anymore
Paul Otto	1846	1893	sculptor		JEIII-590
Bernhard Koehler	1849	1927	Industrialist and patron of the arts
Hermann Sander	1845	1939	Factory owner and local politician
Max Sielaff	1860	1929	Engineer and entrepreneur
Franz Skarbina	1849	1910	Painter and draftsman	since 1990	C 1-545
Friedrich Techow	1807	1880	Gymnasium director and member of the Reichstag
Georg Vierling	1820	1901	Composer, organist and conductor				not available anymore
Albrecht Weber	1825	1901	Indologist and historian
Hermann Wedding	1834	1908	Metallurgist and Professor of Metallurgy				not available anymore
Julius Zupitza	1844	1895	German and English studies				not available anymore

literature

• Ralph Jaeckel, Heidrun Siebenhühner: The old cemetery of the St. Jacobi parish in Berlin-Neukölln . Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89542-147-2
• Garden monuments in Berlin, cemeteries, edited by Jörg Haspel and Klaus von Krosigk, Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, contributions to the preservation of monuments in Berlin 27. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86568-293-2 , pages 185–189

Web links

Commons : St. Jacobi-Kirchhof I  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
2. ↑ Honorary graves of the State of Berlin (PDF; as of July 2016)

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 2.6 ″  N , 13 ° 25 ′ 32.6 ″  E