Forest cemetery Oberschöneweide
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| place | Berlin |
| District | Oberschöneweide |
| Created | 1902/1903 |
| Surrounding streets | At the Wuhlheide |
| Buildings | chapel |
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| Park design | Max Stutterheim |
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| Parking area | 5.73 hectares |
The Waldfriedhof Oberschöneweide is an urban cemetery in the Berlin district of Oberschöneweide in the Treptow-Köpenick district . It was laid out in 1902 by Max Stutterheim as a churchyard on Waldstrasse (in the oak frame) on behalf of the co-founder of the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft ( AEG ) Emil Rathenau . Only since the completion of the Volkspark Wuhlheide does it have the address An der Wuhlheide 131 a.
Description and history
The cemetery with an original area of 1.02 hectares was a gift from the manufacturer Emil Rathenau to the rural community of Oberschöneweide. Rathenau also financed the construction of the cemetery chapel and a house for the cemetery administrator. The municipal cemetery was inaugurated in February 1903 on the occasion of the funeral of the royal forester Franz Witte, who had lived in Siemensstrasse. The architect and master mason Max Stutterheim was won over for planning and construction . He had geometrically structured grave fields created and the south side prepared for hereditary burials . The cemetery chapel, based on the model of medieval chapels as a brick building, was only completed after the cemetery was inaugurated in 1903/1904. In 1908 the township allowed it to be expanded for the first time, and in 1920 it was given additional space for those who fell in the First World War . It currently occupies an area of 57,338 square meters. The entire complex, including the administration building and the chapel, has been a listed building for several years , as has a number of particularly outstanding tombs on the area.
After the Second World War , a memorial for the victims of fascism with a collective grave and 314 individual graves was set up.
Tombs and personalities
Rathenau tomb
The most striking burial place in the cemetery is the grave of the Rathenau family, which the architect Alfred Messel designed in 1903. The rectangular system made of rusticated limestone in the forms of Cyclopean Art Nouveau has larger-than-life figures from the studio of the sculptor Hermann Hahn at the gabled entrance .
Buried here are Erich Rathenau (1871–1903), who was the first technical manager at the Oberspree cable works and who died on a trip to Egypt, Emil Rathenau († 1915) and his wife Mathilde Rathenau († 1926). The grave of Walther Rathenau , who was murdered in 1922 and made a name for himself as an industrialist, writer and politician, is marked as a Berlin grave of honor and has a memorial plaque.
The Rathenau grave was extensively renovated in 2011/2012 with funds from the Hermann Reemtsma Foundation . Except for the memorial plaque, the family's name inscriptions are illegible, and the gate is locked.
Deul and Engel tombs
Also in 1904 was the tomb for Carl Deul , which is also designated as a grave of honor because of Deul's services to the construction of industrial buildings in Schöneweide. The grave in the hereditary burial wall of the builder and architect is adorned by a mourner in front of a stele with a grave medallion of the deceased.
A third significant hereditary tomb is dedicated to the Engel family, of whom today only Otto Engel, the owner of the Frister lamp factory , can be identified by name. The elaborate tomb ensemble of several columns and bronze figures was built in 1908 by Franz Feuerhardt and Heinrich Koch .
Memorial to the fallen soldiers of the First World War
The war memorial of those who fell in World War I bears all the names and dates of birth and death of each person.
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See also
literature
- Klaus Hammer: Berlin cemetery guide . Jaron Verlag GmbH, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89773-081-2
- Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spenersche Verlagbuchhandlung, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-7759-0476-X
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Stutterheim Max: Architect, Edisonstrasse, Ober-Schöneweide . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1901, part I.
- ^ Suburbs> Oberschöneweide> Kirchhof . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1910, Part V, p. 317.
- ↑ a b Detailed information about the gravesite of the Rathenau family ; (pdf), accessed April 1, 2014
- ↑ Jörg Bock: Why not to the Wuhlheide? on Kulturring Berlin with some details about the forest cemetery; Retrieved April 1, 2014
- ↑ Waldfriedhof Wuhlheide in the monument database
- ^ Rathenau tomb renovated for 350,000 euros
- ^ Kühn, Otto: Innkeeper, Ober-Schöneweide, Siemensstrasse 1 . In: Address book for Berlin and its suburbs , 1901, Part I, p. 875.
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '49.7 " N , 13 ° 32' 0.6" E