Berlin-Neukölln, Böhmische Friedhöfe I-III

The Bohemian cemeteries I-III were established in 1751 as the Bohemian Gottesacker Rixdorf on today's Karl-Marx-Platz for Protestant exiles from Bohemia who had been expelled from their homeland because of their faith. in 1747, three Bohemian congregations were founded: the Bohemian-Lutheran congregation, the Reformed Bethlehem congregation and one that joined the Hernhut Brethren congregation. The latter two congregations still exist, the former merged with three neighboring congregations in 2005. The cemetery thus served three congregations from the beginning, whereby the uniformly simple grave design of the Bohemian Brethren Cemetery is visibly distinct from the Bohemian-Reformed Bethlehem Cemetery and the Bohemian-Lutheran Bethlehem Cemetery II. Due to vandalism, the cemetery is permanently closed; relatives have keys to the locked gate. In September 2019, the graves of the victims of war and tyranny, which were located in scattered locations, were moved to a war cemetery in the entrance area of the cemetery. There are 76 graves of victims of the Second World War on the Bohemian Gottesacker (Martin Bayer, 17.04.2020)