Urn cemetery Seestrasse

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The urn cemetery on Seestrasse , originally the Charité burial site , is an urban burial site in the Berlin district of Wedding in the Mitte district . The cemetery occupies a 5.26  hectare , almost rectangular area between the See- , Müller- and Indischen Straße . The St. Philip Apostle Churchyard is directly adjacent to the northeast .

history

Avenue through the cemetery

When it was founded, the cemetery was on the outskirts of Berlin. The cemetery was surrounded by forest, the sand hills of the dune landscape of North Berlin.

The area of ​​today's urn cemetery has been used for burials since 1859. Initially, the patients who died in the Charité were buried there. Those dead who no longer had any relatives and were given to the Charité for teaching purposes were buried there. According to the corresponding Prussian ordinance, these were "notoriously very depraved people who no one cares about".

In 1906 the cemetery became city property. After Prussia allowed cremation in 1912 and the Wedding crematorium was built, the cemetery was used as an urn cemetery . In the 1920s the burial site was expanded to its present size and an urn hall was built in 1929 . In 1924 the extension to Indische Strasse followed and from 1926 to 1931 a redesign by Liebchen and Horticultural Director Schörner. In 1937, a market square on Müllerstrasse was incorporated into the site and today's main entrance was built there.

building

The urn hall, a single-storey half-timbered building, was built in 1929. The entrance building on Müllerstrasse dates from 1937.

Memorial for the uprising of June 17th

Community grave and memorial for the victims of the uprising of June 17, 1953

The central memorial for the victims of the uprising of June 17, 1953 is located in the cemetery . On June 23, 1953, eight victims of the uprising who had died in West Berlin hospitals were buried here. The funeral service took place in front of Schöneberg Town Hall , where the dead were laid out before burial and had around 125,000 participants. On June 17, 1955, a memorial was inaugurated that represents all victims. The stone memorial is labeled The Victims of June 17, 1953 . It includes the face of the grave complex. It figuratively depicts a man who is trapped in a stone block and tries to break out of it.

The annual commemorations and wreath-laying ceremonies by the federal government and the Berlin Senate still take place at this memorial today. The victims buried there on June 17th are:

  • Horst Bernhagen (March 16, 1932 - June 17, 1953)
  • Willi Göttling (born April 14, 1918 - † June 17, 1953)
  • Edgar Krawetzke (March 16, 1933 - June 18, 1953)
  • Oskar Pohl (born November 3, 1927 - † June 17, 1953)
  • Gerhard Santura (born May 6, 1934 - June 17, 1953)
  • Gerhard Schulze (born September 8, 1911 - † June 18, 1953)
  • Rudi Schwander (born August 3, 1938 - † June 17, 1953)
  • Werner Sendisitzky (June 17, 1937 - June 17, 1953)

Victims of National Socialism

Collective grave for victims of euthanasia, concentration camps and prisons

Numerous resistance fighters against National Socialism are buried in the cemetery, including Otto Schmirgal , Albert Kayser , Max Urich , Theodor Thiele and Otto Lemm . A collective grave for 295 victims of National Socialism particularly houses victims of the euthanasia program and concentration camp victims. From the Hartheim, Bernburg, Grafeneck, Sonnenstein, Hadamar-Mönchberg, Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps, as well as victims from the Plötzensee and Brandenburg prisons.

Buried

In addition, the following important personalities found their final resting place at the Seestrasse urn cemetery:

The grave of Ida Siekmann , first victim of the Berlin Wall
  • Rudolf Germer (1884–1938), landscape architect
  • Erika Heß (1934–1986), Weddingen District Mayor *
  • Albert Kayser (1898–1944), resistance fighter * (grave: Dept. VIII, row 10, no. 470)
  • Friedrich Krüger (1896–1984), city elder * (grave: Section II, row 9, no. 44)
  • Carl Leid (1867–1935), Weddingen district mayor * (grave: Section VIII, row 5, no. 165)
  • Otto Lemm (1896–1944), resistance fighter (grave: Dept. V, row 5, no. 14)
  • Jonny Liesegang (1897–1961), writer
  • Franz Possehl (1905–1974), city elder * (grave: Section III, row 3, no. 1)
  • Gerhard Schlegel (1903–1983), city elder * (grave: Dept. VIII, row 3, no. 193)
  • Otto Schmirgal (1900–1944), resistance fighter * (grave: Dept. VIII, row 10, no. 470)
  • Ida Siekmann (1902–1961), first victim of the Berlin Wall
  • Theodor Thiele (1906–1974), resistance fighter, district councilor (grave: Dept. I, row 7, no. 15a)
  • Max Urich (1890–1968), trade unionist and politician (grave: Dept. V, row 4, no. 109)
(* = Honor grave of the state of Berlin )

See also

Web links

Commons : Urnenfriedhof Seestrasse  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Senate of Berlin: Cemetery Development Plan , July 11, 2006 Annex 4, page 1
  2. ↑ a b c d e Eberhard Elfert: Der Urnenfriedhof Seestraße in: District Office Mitte von Berlin (Ed.): Corner müllerstraße April / May 2013, p. 9
  3. ↑ a b c Luise Berlin: Urnenfriedhof Seestrasse , accessed December 1, 2015
  4. ↑ a b c Federal Foundation Reconstruction: Places of Remembrance of the Popular Uprising , accessed December 1, 2015
  5. ↑ a b c Federal Foundation processing: Places of memory. Memorial signs, memorials and museums on the dictatorship in the Soviet occupation zone and GDR. Excerpt: Places of remembrance of the popular uprising in the GDR on June 17, 1953 , Berlin 2013, pp. 12–13

Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 11 ″  N , 13 ° 21 ′ 16 ″  E