Berlin-Neukölln, Friedhof Columbiadamm (Neuer Garnisonfriedhof)

For reasons of hygiene and lack of space, new burial grounds were laid out outside the city gates in the middle of the 19th century. King Friedrich Wilhelm IV also moved his garrison out of the confines of the city to new barracks on Tempelhof Field. The existing "Cemetery behind the Hasenheide" was thus expanded in 1861 to become the "New Garrison Cemetery" as the garrison cemetery. The name refers to the previous garrison cemetery. From the wars of liberation against the Napoleonic occupation to the thousands of victims of the Second World War, the cemetery marks a not insignificant period of Prussian and German military history. As early as 1866, King Wilhelm I left a small section of the cemetery to the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Aziz for his embassy staff and the Muslims in Berlin. After the First World War, the Berlin garrison was disbanded and the cemetery's designation as a garrison cemetery became obsolete. Since the 1970s, it has been known as Columbiadamm Cemetery. The cemetery has the highest number of graves of victims of war and tyranny in Berlin, with almost 7,000 graves from the First World War making up the largest proportion. There are ten memorials in the cemetery, most of which were erected after the First World War. Like all memorials or honorary monuments, the ones here are also reflections of their time.