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A selection of cemeteries

Many a famous person, whether he is a man of the arts or historically important, has found his last resting place on one of the many Berlin cemeteries. These burial grounds are also perfect oases of peace and quiet in a very busy city.

• Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof

Chausseestrasse 126, Mitte (Centre)
M 6 Oranienburger Tor
Daily 8am-7pm, in winter until 6pm

Here lie a.o. Bertolt Brecht, Helene Weigel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Johann Gottfried Schadow, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Heinrich Mann, Heiner Müller and Bernard Minetti.

Next to the cemetery stands Brecht House (nr.125), where Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel used to live and work until their death (the house is now an archive and memorial).

• Cemetery on Bergmannstrasse

Südstern, Kreuzberg
M-station Südstern
Daily 8am-6pm

At the Bergmannstraße four cemeteries are placed right next to each other: the Dreifaltigkeitsfriedhof II, the Friedrichswerdersche Friedhof, the Friedhof IV der Jerusalems- und Neuen Kirche and the Luisenstädterischer Friedhof. Tombs of a.o. Adolph von Menzel, Theodor Mommsen, Gustav Stresemann, Martin Gropius.

• Friedhof Schöneberg III
  
            Stubenrauchstraße 34-45  M 9 Bundesplatz

  At the small former Friedhof Friedenau, Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) and Helmut Newton (1920-2004) are buried close to each other. Berlin gave both of them a grave of honour.

   

• Jewish Cemetery

Schönhauser Allee 23-25, Prenzlauer Berg
M-station Senefelder Strasse
Monday-Thursday, Sunday 8am-5pm, Friday till 12am

Laid out in 1827. Here lie a.o. Max Liebermann, Giacomo Meyerbeer and Leopold Ullstein.

• Jewish Cemetery Weissensee

Herbert-Baum-Strasse 45, Weissensee
Tram line 12 , bus 255

Sunday-Thursday 10am-5pm, Friday 8am-3pm, closed on Jewish holidays. Open till 1pm the day before such a holiday. Guided tours.

This is Western Europe’s largest Jewish burial ground (approximately 100 acres, 11,500 graves). A memorial stone recalls the 6 million Jews murdered by the nazis. With a surface of over 400,000 square meters and 115,000 graves one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe. Drawn by architect Hugo Licht, inaugurated in 1880. Close to the entrance there is a memorial stone for the 6 million victims of the persecution of the Jews by the nazi’s. Another memorial in the shape of a monumental altar honours the memory of the Jewish soldiers who were killed during the First World War.
At the right side of the entrance, in the northern corner of the cemetery, the 90 Torah scrolls that were damaged during the pogrom night in 1938 are being remembered. Graves of Berlin personalities: including socialist Max Hirsch, the painter Lesser Ury and the publishers Samuel Fischer and Rudolf Mosse.
To prevent it from decay, there has been a request to admit the cemetery in the World Estate list of the UNESCO 

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