Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof Güterfelde
The Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof Güterfelde is a Berlin cemetery. It is located outside the city in the state of Brandenburg near Güterfelde (until 1937: Gütergotz ) on the county road 6960 between Stahnsdorf and Potsdam and covers an area of 13.07 hectares .
history
In 1909 the rural community of Friedenau acquired a piece of land near the Protestant south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf, which was opened at the time . Friedenau had become a popular residential area for the bourgeoisie , but could only offer its residents the small cemetery on Stubenrauchstrasse , which soon reached its capacity limit. The reason was the announcement from neighboring Wilmersdorf , which also had major problems with the numerous newcomers, that it would no longer accept any corpses from Friedenau in the future.
The design of the forest property was entrusted to the Friedenau municipal building councilor Hans Altmann . He had an unusually large cemetery chapel with a clinker facade built, along with the administration building, the cemetery keeper's house with the flower shop, and brick fountains and benches. The model for the layout of the cemetery was the floor plan of the community of Friedenau.
In June 1913 the cemetery railway to Stahnsdorf was opened. The first burial in the cemetery of the community Friedenau took place in August 1913. But in 1920 the Friedenau was a district Schöneberg district of Greater Berlin incorporated. The cemetery was now called Waldfriedhof Schöneberg . After an administrative reform in 1935, the management of the cemetery was transferred to the Wilmersdorf district , which had looked after the nearby Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof Stahnsdorf since 1920 . Since then it has had its current name.
The cemetery was never really accepted, since after 1920 there were four municipal cemeteries to choose from for the Friedenauers in the Schöneberg district alone, burial habits changed more and more in favor of the space-saving urn grave and with the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 the cemetery for the West -Berliner was only accessible with great effort. The residents of Güterfelde had their own cemetery, but were able to be buried here during the GDR era . The city of Berlin had no need for the cemetery after German reunification , as there are enough free grave sites in most inner-city cemeteries. All buildings were extensively restored in the 1990s, but new burials are no longer permitted for the cemetery, which is now a listed building.
Notable graves
- Kurt Hoffmann, who became wealthy as a large landowner in German colonies in Africa , had a pompous mausoleum built opposite the chapel in 1915 , which is not accessible.
- Sculpture of a naked young man in mourning on the tombstone of the Engel couple, who died in 1944.
- Soviet cemetery of honor next to the forest cemetery, also burial place for prisoners of war , forced laborers and concentration camp prisoners . An obelisk commemorates 1,389 Soviet citizens, 101 Poles , four Yugoslavs , two Italians and one Czech . In the forest cemetery itself, a memorial commemorates 383 Poles and 720 Germans who were murdered as prisoners in the Sachsenhausen and Wewelsburg / Niederhagen concentration camps in 1942 .
- Max Schreck (1879–1936), actor, an icon of the horror film, a myth to this day. The role of his life was given to him in 1922 by the film director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau : Count Orlok in Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror . Max Schreck died on February 20, 1936 in Munich . His urn was transferred to Güterfelde and buried on March 14, 1936 in the 70 cm × 70 cm urn grave site UR 670 of his mother Pauline Schreck. Pauline Schreck last lived in Friedenau, Bennigsenstrasse 26, and died on October 9, 1934. The Friends and Sponsors Association of the Berlin Film Museum inaugurated a memorial stele on the 75th anniversary of Max Schreck's death on February 20, 2011 .
literature
- Peter Hahn: Berlin cemeteries in Stahnsdorf. History, stories, people. Oase Verlag Badenweiler 2010, ISBN 978-3-88922-065-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Hahn: Hans Altmann - As an architect, he shaped the image of Friedenau ( Memento from May 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 51.2 ″ N , 13 ° 10 ′ 24 ″ E