Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery

The Protestant Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery in the Berlin district Westend is an existing since 1896 Avenue neighborhood cemetery with a size of 3.7 acres. The cemetery is available as a complete system under monument protection.

The cemetery is located on Fürstenbrunner path right next to the cemetery Luis III and is connected to it by two ways.

History

The Protestant Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial church was built in 1896 due to the growing population in the west of Berlin. Part of the municipality of Luis went on in the new community. The Luis municipality gave the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial church, a 4.7 acre surface for a separate cemetery, which joined just north of the cemetery Luis III.

The cemetery was established as the adjacent cemetery as Luis Avenue neighborhood cemetery. For Allen Linden and maples were planted. The inauguration of the cemetery took place with the first funeral on 25 July 1896. He took over this date, the function as the burial place of the educated middle class, who settled the end of the 19th century around the Kurfürstendamm in the so-called New West. The need for representation beyond death was particularly pronounced at this time, and as late in life to considerable investment in grave sites and their design.

1903 let the community build a cemetery chapel. Until then, they use the facilities at the Luis Cemetery III. To run came a draft of the City Commissioner of City Planning Hetzel ( a partial -to-find in the literature authorship Schwechten is not applicable). Hetzel designed the chapel in Romanesque forms, decorative elements of writing features of Art Nouveau exhibit. The inauguration of the chapel took place on 27 September 1903.

Unique among the chapels on Berlin cemeteries is the establishment of a tomb complex. 16 from the basement accessible from tombs in sizes between ten and 25 square meters have been created to serve their sale to finance the chapel.

During World War II, the chapel was badly damaged. Some are Erbbegräbnisstätten today significant shelling evidence from this period. The chapel was 1952/1953 and rebuilt in 1978 extensively renovated.

Kunsthistorisches significant graves

Mausoleum Lemm

In the 1910s, the shoe polish manufacturer Otto Lemm had built an extremely magnificent mausoleum in the northeast corner of the cemetery. The architect Max Werner designed to match the Chapel, a Romanesque building on the basic shape of a Greek cross. In the 42 -square-foot interior is a large part of the walls and ceilings with mosaics, made ​​by the company Puhl & Wagner, lined. A large mosaic over the entrance to the tomb shows the couple Lemm sitting on a bench, another whose villa in Gatow. Opposite the entrance is located in an apse, an altar, which is decorated with an angel sculpture.

Grave Warburg

Near the chapel was 1914, the company owner Ferdinand Warburg build a monumental burial place in the corner of West and south walls. Only the costs for the acquisition of burial space amounted to more than ten times the annual earnings of a worker at that time.

The style, the property also accommodates the Romanesque style of the chapel. In the angle of the walls is a diagonal ädikulaartiges ornate certificate Portal. At this leads up a small flight of stairs. The sky, which is to be expected the deceased behind the portal is represented by blue glass mosaic with golden frame. The portal is a body set up by Hans Dammann marble sculpture of a antikisiernd clad mourners with Lyra. The first version of this sculpture had to be even completely replaced, as Warburg displeased a vein in the marble face of the sculpture.

Beige separately applied well-known personalities

(* = Honorary grave of Berlin )

  • Robert Behla (1850-1921), physician
  • Franz Betz (1835-1900), opera singer
  • August Bredtschneider vessel * (1855-1924), architect, city planner and city elder
  • Franz Diener (1901-1969), Heavyweight Boxer
  • Alfred Dührssen (1862-1933), gynecologist
  • Jean Paul Ertel (1865-1933), composer
  • Robert Friedberg (1846-1920), lawyer and politician
  • Woldemar Friedrich (1846-1910), painter and illustrator
  • Anna von Gierke * (1874-1943), social reformer
  • Otto von Gierke * (1841-1921), lawyer and legal historian
  • Alfred Goldscheider (1858-1935), physician
  • Adolf Heyden (1839-1902), architect
  • Otto Hirschfeld (1843-1922), historian and epigraphists
  • Karl von Hofmann (1827-1910), Prussian Minister of Commerce
  • Elise of Hohenhausen (1812-1899), writer
  • Amalie Joachim * (1839-1899), Court Opera Singer
  • Joseph Joachim * (1831-1907), violin virtuoso and composer
  • Richard von Kaufmann (1849-1908), economist and archaeologist
  • Fedor Krause (1857-1937), neurosurgeon
  • Oskar Liebreich * (1839-1908), pharmacologist
  • Alexander Merensky (1837-1918), missionary
  • Carl lunch * (1852-1922), politician and elder city
  • Robert Pilgrim (1876-1953), botanist
  • Henny Porten * (1890-1960), film actress
  • John Rabe (1882-1950), " Oskar Schindler of China"
  • Heinrich Reimann (1850-1906), musicologist and composer
  • Walter Rheinermark (1895-1925), poet and writer
  • Eduard Sachau (1845-1930), orientalist
  • John Schmidt (1843-1901), linguist
  • Gustav von Schmoller * (1838-1917), economist
  • Friedrich Spielhagen * (1829-1911), writer and storyteller
  • Christoph von Tiedemann (1836-1907), politician and Prussian official
  • Adolf Tobler (1835-1910), Romance
  • Kurt Vespermann (1887-1957), actor
  • Erich Wernicke * (1859-1928), an immunologist and microbiologist
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