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 The cemetery at Hallesches Tor can be traced back to a paupers cemetery in 1735.  In terms of its cultural history it has become the most significant burial site in West Berlin. Among the most beautiful works of art are the heads of two women by the Jugendstil sculptor Ignatz Taschner. They decorate the gravestones of the landscape painter Karl Wilhelm Bennewitz von Loefen and his wife, who can be found on the left when coming from the Zossener Strasse entrance, on the inside corner of Baruther Strasse in an area which is separated from the rest by tall family graves. On the painter’s gravestone, the marble relief of a woman’s head has been carved in the style of a medallion, with long, curly hair held back by a band. Emy Bennewitz von Loefen’s gravestone displays a girl’s head, half hidden and half emerging, whose calm beauty is captivating. A few steps away is the gold-rimmed, black, cast-iron cross for Henriette Herz and just beyond the square, next to her husband’s grave is that of Rahel Varnhagen. Both women were Jewish and important figures of the Berlin Salon in the 18th and 19th century. Again, only a few steps further, left of the main path when approaching from the Zossener Strasse entrance and shortly before the central wall are the graves of the composer, Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, his sister Fanny Hensel, his parents and other family members. The flower shop at the main entrance in Mehringdamm has a photocopied map of the cemetery for sale, on which a total of 22 famous graves have been marked, among them the poets E.T.A. Hoffmann and Adelbert von Chamisso and the architects David Gilly and Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff.

 

 

 
Address: Mehringdamm 21  10961 Berlin
Tel: +49 030 - 6940 1961
Bus, Tube, Tram: U 6 und U 7 Mehringdamm, Bus 341
Hours of opening: 8.00-16.00(in winter), 8.00-20.00  (in summer)
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