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Index
Gründerzeit
Museum
Chinese
Tea House
Anatomical
Theatre
The
Deserted Room
Luisenst.
Canal Gardens
Comenius
Garden
Körnerpark
Gallery
Buddhisti
House
Lübars Village Green
Schöneb.
Nat. Reserve
Marienfelde
Green
Lions'
Bridge
Späthsches
Arboretum
Villa
Harteneck's Garden
Heerstraße
Cemetery |
The Friedhof Heerstrasse, which is open to all religions, is one of the
most unusual burial places in the city in both its landscape and garden
design. It was created in the 1920’s and probably designed by Erwin
Barth, the director of the Charlottenburg gardens. The name of the
cemetery, which is
seen as an expensive and exclusive estate, is misleading. It refers to the
inhabitants of the villa colony of Heerstraße for whom it was originally
built and not to its actual situation on the Trakehner Allee. The
Sausuhlensee, (the Sausuhlen lake) forms the scenic heart of the place.
It lies in the formerly wooded area of the Grunewald and its slopes rise
steeply to the road 20 metres above. A large circular bed of yew hedges
lies in the centre of a park area south-west of the lake and the graves
were arranged on both sides. The main paths radiate out in the form of a
star from here and the rows of graves descend in terraces to this point.
Around the lake, the formal design of the garden relaxes and pleasant
paths lead to the eastern section which was extended after the Second
World War. This wooded area has not been developed much and extends the
area to three times its original size. The cemetery’s prominent position
in the west of Charlottenburg guarantees a further characteristic, the
large number of famous personalities buried there. An extensive list that
one can buy from the cemetery administration contains many names of
actors, artists and writers, among them Tilla Durieux, George Grosz, Georg Kolbe and Joachim
Ringelnatz. Georg Kolbe designed his own
family’s burial place and this is also one of the most important
memorials in the cemetery. It consists of three graceful pillars set
between four large marble slabs. The left one represents earth, the right
one heaven and the central pillar with its little angel heads reminds one
of the artist’s beautiful wife who died prematurely. |
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