Berlin-Charlottenburg, Friedhof Grunewald

The 1.2 hectare Grunewald cemetery was laid out in 1891/92 for the Berlin villa colony of Grunewald, which was founded in the 1880s. It is located at Bornstedter Straße 11/12 in the Halensee district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Due to its isolated location between the railroad tracks, the cemetery was also known as the Island of the Dead. The cemetery was built according to plans by the royal garden inspector Roer and opened on May 19, 1892. a neo-Gothic-style cemetery chapel was built in 1897. Various personalities were buried in the cemetery, e.g. - Jack O. Bennet (1914-2001), completed the first and most flights of the Berlin Airlift (1948-1949) - Hans Delbrück (1848-1929), historian and politician, grave location: III-1-9/10 - Carl Paul Goertz (1854-1923), entrepreneur (founder of Optische Anstalt C. P. Goertz), grave location: I a-UW-52 - Prof. Otto Lessing (1846-1912), sculptor, grave location: IV-Gitter 47/48 The cemetery contains more than 100 graves of victims of the Second World War and some graves of victims of the First World War, including deceased Russian prisoners of war. (Martin Bayer, 06.04.2020)