Zehlendorf forest cemetery

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Honorary grave for Ernst Reuter

The forest cemetery Zehlendorf is a 37.5  hectare large state-owned cemetery of Berlin , in the district of Nikolassee the borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf is. The northern part of the cemetery was planned immediately after the Second World War in 1945 and laid out by Herta Hammerbacher between 1946 and 1947, and further expansion was carried out between 1948 and 1954 by Max Dietrich . Like the Dahlem forest cemetery , this cemetery is also a celebrity cemetery, as several important personalities from Berlin were buried here.

layout

The forest cemetery occupies an area of ​​375,794 m². The basis of the design was based on the topography, the soil and the vegetation; the design was deliberately chosen in the landscape style and was viewed as a link to the Rehwiese landscape area. For the facility, around a third of the hunt from the neighboring forest was integrated into the area, the forest character of which was retained and only cleared for the new purpose. The tree population consists mainly of pines , in addition there are occasional oaks , mountain ash and birch . Both the then garden director Reinhold Lingner and the city planning director Hans Scharoun were integrated into the planning .

The main axes form two paths in a north-south direction, between which the remaining paths of the cemetery extend in a loose rectangular pattern with curved paths. The celebration halls are located on a natural hill and between this hill and the entrance on Wasgensteig there is a U-shaped meadow that opens to the east and was originally laid out as a heather area. The graves are laid out as row graves and are located in both the meadow and forest section of the cemetery.

Italian war cemetery

After the Second World War, an indefinite number of graves were laid out for victims of war and tyranny. The responsible Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection assumes a little under 1000 individual graves and three collective graves.

In 1953, an Italian war cemetery was also laid out, surrounded by wood, and thus structurally separated from the rest of the cemetery. There are regularly arranged grave slabs of 1170 prisoners of war and military internees on a lawn . Among them are the 127 Italian victims of the Treuenbrietzen massacre .

Chapel and outbuildings

Large celebration hall
Small celebration hall

The cemetery ceremonial halls are located on a natural hill, which Sergius Ruegenberg and Wolf von Möllendorff built between 1956 and 1958 for financial reasons . The location was enforced by Hammerbacher against the garden authority in favor of the landscape character. It is a larger and a smaller celebration hall, which are connected by several low outbuildings. The front of the halls is covered by two free-standing, travertine-clad walls with an entrance in between, behind which there is a flat collection room. The halls themselves are reinforced concrete structures in a frame construction with bricks as infills. The front sides of the halls are clad with dark sheet metal and partly consist of glass surfaces. The backs are largely glazed and framed by steel frames.

In addition to these main buildings, there are a number of other buildings in the cemetery. These include the gate on Potsdamer Chaussee built in 1950 by Friedrich Dücker and the gate on Wasgensteig built in 1959 by Hans-Joachim Sachse and Bernhard Busen . The gatehouse on Potsdamer Chaussee was also built by Sachse and Busen (1961/1962), while the flower shop (1967/1968) and the gatehouse on Wasgensteig (1971/1972) were only built by Sachse. On the meadow facing Potsdamer Chaussee there is also a bell structure that Sergius Ruegenberg and Möllendorff built in 1963.

Graves of famous personalities

Many well-known Berlin personalities were buried at the Zehlendorf forest cemetery.

Honor graves

The Berlin Senate pays for the maintenance of 47  honorary graves in the cemetery (as of November 2018):

More graves

See also

literature

  • Klaus Hammer: Historic cemeteries & tombs in Berlin . Stattbuch, Berlin 1994
  • Klaus Konrad Weber, Peter Güttler, Ditta Ahmadi (eds.): Berlin and its buildings. Part X Volume A: Facilities and structures for supply (3) Funeral services . Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-433-00890-6
  • Zehlendorf forest cemetery . In: Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , pp. 630–641.

Web links

Commons : Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of cemeteries in Berlin . (PDF) Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment , as of May 2016, accessed on June 6, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf , year 1948 in the online exhibition 100 years landscape architecture of the bdla . Retrieved April 30, 2014.
  3. ↑ SenUVK (ed.): Graves of the victims of war and tyranny - inventory of individual graves and collective graves . State of Berlin, March 2019, p. 11 .
  4. ^ Cemeteries / State of Berlin. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
  5. ↑ The dead of Treuenbrietzen. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . Retrieved July 29, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Honorary graves of the State of Berlin (as of November 2018) (PDF) accessed on March 10, 2019.

Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 27 ″  N , 13 ° 12 ′ 40 ″  E