Berlin-Wedding, Dom-Friedhof II

The Berlin cathedral congregation established its second cemetery in 1870 in Müllerstraße in Wedding after its first cemetery in Liesenstraße, established in 1843, became too small after just a few decades. This early date may come as a surprise, considering that Berlin Cathedral was only consecrated in 1905. However, a first cathedral was consecrated on this site as early as 1536, followed by the second cathedral, which was consecrated in 1750. This was designed as a baroque building by Johann Boumann and Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff and redesigned by Karl Friedrich Schinkel at the beginning of the 19th century in simple classicism - no comparison to the overloaded design by Julius Carl Raschdorff for the Wilhelmine building. There are several graves of honor of the state of Berlin in the cemetery: - Albert Emil Brachvogel (1824-1878), writer ("Narcissus", "Friedemann Bach") - Carl Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach (1757-1813), Lord Mayor of Berlin during the Napoleonic occupation - Heinrich Grüber (1891-1975), Theologian and Nazi resistance fighter ("Büro Grüber") - Karl Richard Lepsius (1810-1884), Egyptologist and linguist, founder of modern Egyptology In addition, there are personalities who were previously given a grave of honor: - Paul Gurk (1880-1953), writer and painter - one of the great forgotten German-language authors of the 20th century. August Merget (1801-1877), seminary teacher (grave of honor 1984-2005) Since the 1960s, the cemetery has been divided by a wide promenade. The cemetery contains 152 individual graves and a collective grave of 72 m² with victims of war and tyranny. (Martin Bayer, 24.06.2020)