Court Street Urn Cemetery

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Entrance to the cemetery
crematorium
Columbarium
Tomb of the Gutmann family
Siegfried Ochs' grave of honor

The Wedding Urn Cemetery is a cemetery in the Wedding district of Berlin's Mitte district , Richtstrasse 37/38. The cemetery is bordered by Richtstrasse, Adolfstrasse, Plantagenstrasse and Ruheplatzstrasse. The cemetery and the crematorium are under monument protection .

history

The first cemetery established by the city of Berlin was located at the location of today's urn cemetery. This cemetery was inaugurated in 1828 and expanded for the first time in 1831. In 1879 the cemetery was closed due to full occupancy. From 1903 part of the cemetery was converted into a park. In 1911 cremation was legally allowed in Prussia . The Berlin Cremation Association had already built an urn hall in the cemetery. The first crematorium in Berlin was built from this urn hall in 1912. In the same year the cemetery was redesigned.

The path system is still the same as that of the old cemetery. In World War II , a large part of the trees was destroyed. The western part of the cemetery was landscaped in 1964, only a few hereditary burials remained. The grave of the sculptor Louis Tuaillon is also located here . The stele on his grave was probably made according to his own design. In 1991 the entrance area of ​​the crematorium was changed.

crematorium

The crematorium was built by William Müller from 1909 to 1910 . It was opened in 1912 as a municipal facility. The urn hall was built in neoclassical style , but there are also early Christian designs. The octagonal hall is 17 meters high and has a mansard roof . The lantern on the roof is the mouth of the chimney. The wing structures were built from 1913 to 1915 by Hermann Jansen, an employee of William Müller, who died in 1913. They form an octagonal forecourt and served as a columbarium . In 1937 the main entrance to the crematorium was built, a hall with three arches. Ida Siekmann , the first victim of the Berlin Wall , was cremated here and buried in the Seestrasse urn cemetery. After modernizations and extensions between 1998 and 2000, the city closed the crematorium at the end of 2001 and put it up for sale. The silent green Kulturquartier with its concept for a cultural use of the building ensemble was awarded the contract.

Graves

Important Berlin personalities are buried in the cemetery.

Honor graves

Other notable graves

  • The tomb of the Gutmann banking family is located on the main path. The best known member of the family was Eugen Gutmann , founder of Dresdner Bank . The monument was erected in 1916 in neoclassical style based on a design by the architect Franz Seeck . In the middle part there is a cenotaph , in the side walls there are niches with the urns.
  • The hereditary funeral of the Rudolf Conrad family was created by the sculptor Wagner-Teichen. The tomb shows a bronze mourner in front of a three-part grave wall.
  • The burial place for Carl and Johanna Borchert was built in 1915. The tomb consists of four Doric columns with a stele in the middle. In front of the stele there is an urn on a base.

The columbarium wall was built between 1922 and 1924, it is on the side of the Plantagenstrasse. It is the only columbarium wall in this form in a Berlin cemetery. The wall is made of artificial stone and structured by pillar platforms and pergolas. The free-standing urn niches are no longer occupied today. In a covered part, the wall is still covered.

literature

Web links

Commons : Urnenfriedhofgerichtstrasse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The last greeting. In: BILD newspaper of August 30, 1961.
  2. ^ [1] Project "Silent-Green" - From the crematorium Berlin-Wedding to the cultural center . Website of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment, Berlin.de, accessed on April 18, 2016.

Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '44 "  N , 13 ° 21' 55.4"  E