Luisenfriedhof III

The Protestant Cemetery Luis III in the Berlin district Westend is an existing since 1891 Avenue neighborhood cemetery with a size of 12.0 acres. The cemetery is available as a complete system under monument protection.

The cemetery is located on Fürstenbrunner path right next to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery and is connected to it by two ways.

History

Due to the rapid population growth of Charlottenburg at the end of the 19th century, was the first opened in 1867 Luis Cemetery II soon too small again. On the grounds of a church-owned sand pit on the Spandau Hill, therefore, a new cemetery was created far outside the former building north of Charlottenburg. The planning for this began in 1891 with the establishment of a commission for the design. With this the landscaper Otto Vogeler was entrusted, did not follow the then current trend of the park cemeteries and was planning a neighborhood avenue cemetery under the use of indigenous plants. 500 avenue trees, mainly limes, maples and oaks, and other trees and shrubs were planted in 4500. The first burial in the new cemetery was made on 19 June 1891.

In the following two years, the cemetery chapel was built to designs by John Vollmer and Henry Jassoy. They had emerged as the winner of a competition for a chapel design. The chapel is a bright red brick building with the early Gothic style elements. The base is made of artificial sandstone facades are articulated by black glazed stones, brown glazed Gesimssteine ​​as well as by white panels. Towards the entrance to the chapel opens with a porch under a big arch. On the roof sat enthroned a slim, high roof riders who went but lost in the Second World War. The chapel is attributed to the pilaster churches and is regarded as a typical Friedhofskapellenbau for 1890 to 1905.

A well planned by Vollmer and Jassoy entrance portal that would architecturally corresponds to the chapel, was never carried out. Instead, a cast-iron portal was built.

In 1893 /94 anderthalbgeschossiges administration building was erected just north of the entrance to the designs of Paul Bratring. The red brick building is based on the architecture of the cemetery chapel. The management of the three cemeteries of Luis community and an apartment was housed for the gravedigger in him.

1905, the cemetery south to its present size has been expanded. Vogeler led the geometric design of the cemetery continued here. For the avenues the plant 300 and 180 Linden elms were planted on the extension area. Since that time, the cemetery has changed only slightly. In the southwestern corner a part of the cemetery is used by the Armenian community in Berlin.

Kunsthistorisches significant graves

Grave Heinrich Brugsch

Tomb of the Egyptologist Heinrich Brugsch is unique because it is a sarcophagus lid, which is probably derived from the Old Kingdom. The end of the 19th century attached label with the age " 4000 BC " is not tenable from today's perspective. Experts anticipate a time of origin 2400-2200 BC from. The coffin plate is made of rose granite, also called Aswan granite, and comes from Saqqara. For the tomb was erected and inscribed vertically. A brother Heinrich Brugsch, Emil Brugsch, who was curator of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Bulak and by supporting Heinrich Brugsch has, can create this unusual tomb.

The original design included a bronze medallion with a still image Brugsch, which was produced by Max Rabe. In addition, a bronze plaque was mounted with a bird, lotus flowers and an Arabic inscription. Instead, there is now a table with the data from descendants Brugsch, which could be buried here as well.

At the beginning of the 21st century, the club has it restored the grave for the Promotion of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin.

Grave Grisebach

On the occasion of the death of his son Edward was the architect Hans Grisebach a burial place for his ideas build. This tomb falls on the west wall of the cemetery on by its beneficial restraint, which is limited to quality craftsmanship. This is characterized by a mosaic of Hermann Schaper, the son of the deceased, lifted by angels shows. The production of the mosaic is the company Puhl & Wagner attributed.

Hans Grisebach was also buried after his death in 1904 in this family vault.

Grave Emil Idol

The descendants of the " Royal Prussian chamber singer " Emil idol left after his death at the architecture firm Erdmann & Spindler, who had already distinguished himself by numerous prestigious tomb designs, design a family vault.

Erdmann & Spindler designed a tomb of red granite, it falls primarily by its large curves in the eye. The convex curvature of the rear wall passes over into the side flaps, which is concavely curved, extend nearly to the floor. As a decorative accessory, the tomb was a round relief portrait and two rectangular panels with scenic views. These three reliefs made ​​the sculptor Lilli Wislicenus - Finzelberg. A rosary, the semicircular followed the curve of the back wall in relief, was made by Richard Gerschel.

In the postwar period were here, as in the grave Brugsch, the stolen metal ornaments and probably sold as scrap and melted down. Since 2004, the grave site is used as a common grave. The areas of missing reliefs were used for the panels now here interred.

Grave Hirschwald

The family vault Hirschwald was built around 1899 for the late publishing bookseller Ferdinand deer forest. The grave wall in the classical style is framed by two pilasters on each of which is an amphora. The two side wings of the typical tripartite division are redeemed at insignificant border pieces. Before the grave is the grave wall sculpture of a young woman who takes up the Art Nouveau style with the flowing forms of the falling dress. The sculpture was created by the son of the couple deer woods, the sculptor Hans Dammann, who specializes in tomb sculptures. It is in the sculpture to the 1899 shown at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition figure " Sleep ". This was understood as a visual implementation of the resurrection idea.

Grave Valentin

The factory owner Julius Valentin, who also sat on the board of AEG and was a friend of Emil Rathenau, had built a family vault, which is now regarded as one of the most quality grave sites on the cemetery Luis III.

As early as 1902, Valentine took care of the design of his future tomb. The design of the system by the architect Wilhelm Güthlen, the sculptures were made by Fritz Schaper. The tomb in the immediate vicinity of the chapel is designed as a tomb. On both sides of Einstieges to this there are large plates with the inscriptions. The rear standing grave marble monument shows a female genius in high relief. The skyward-facing view of the sculpture to symbolize the hope of the resurrection of the deceased. In the base area there are two cherubs carved in relief.

The preparation of the tomb took place over ten years since Valentin long negotiated with the municipality and the neighboring grave owners about the burial site and a dispute with Schaper was even brought before the court. Nevertheless, the grave was completed on time, as Valentin until the age of 81 died in 1921.

Beige separately applied well-known personalities

(* = Honorary grave of Berlin )

• Bernhard Afinger (1813-1882), sculptor
• August Aschingers (1862-1911), restaurateur ( Aschingers )
• Georg Bleibtreu (1828-1892), a painter of battle
• Karl Bleibtreu (1859-1928), poet and writer
• Heinrich Brugsch (1827-1894), Egyptologist
• Emil Bücherl (1919-2001), a cardiac surgeon
• Wilhelm Cauer (1900-1945), mathematician and physicist
• Heinrich Dernburg (1829-1907), lawyer and legal historian
• Lia Eibenschütz (1899-1985), actress
• Ernst Förstemann (1822-1906), German scholar and researcher names
• Hans Grisebach (1848-1904), architect
• Georg Heym (1887-1912), writer and poet
• Jebens Wilhelm (1830-1907), lawyer
• Heinz Kaschke * (1916-2002), politician and elder city
• Fritz Kolbe (1900-1971) officer and resistance fighter
• Joachim Krueger (1915-1969), a cabaret artist and concert promoter
• Hermann Kühn (1851-1937), Prussian politician and Minister of State
• Wilhelm rascals (1836-1902), historian and publicist
• Julius Lohmeyer (1835-1903), writer Humoristischer ( Kladderadatsch )
• Brigitte Mira * (1910-2005), actress
• Karl August Möbius (1825-1908), zoologist
• Günter Neumann (1913-1972), comedian ( The Islander ) and composer
• Eva Renzi (1944-2005), actress
• Tatjana Sais (1910-1981), actress and comedienne
• Charles Schell (1866-1936), Physicist
• Fridtjof Schliephacke (1930-1991), architect
• Konrad von Studt (1838-1921), Prussian politician and Minister of State
• Joseph Uphues (1850-1911), sculptor