6. Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf Cemetery - Berlin
Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf Cemetery is situated at southwest outside of the city borders in the area of the brandenburgischen municipality Stahnsdorf. Located in the forest, this graveyard possesses a particularly alternate approach to honour the death. The cemetery grew to become one amongst the largest in Europe with its 206-hectare of land area. A lot of well-known reputable Berlin citizens found their final resting place here in the 20s, like the painter Lovis Corinth, the publisher Louis Ullstein, the impressionistischer painter Lovis Corinth, and the Siemens family.
During the Second World War, approximately 30.000 graves were relocated from central Berlin to Stahnsdorf, to create space for Hitler’s newly envisioned Berlin. The cemetery seriously started to fall into despair after the world war. Stahnsdorf Cemetery was formerly meant for West Berliners, however when the Wall was built up in 1961, the cemetery become Eastern territory. “West Berliners were not allowed to gain access to the graves any longer and the GDR authority didn not take care of them. The graves became ignored and a lot of premises were damaged.
As January 2000 the Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery Support Association inc. has provided its support to the protection of the historical monument along with the conservation of the historic monument.
Stahnsdorf cemetery indisputably boasts of a touch of otherworldly beauty, with the magnificent tombstones, maudlin sculptures and works by Berlin’s once leading architects. A lot more unnerving is the location of the cemetery that hosts fallen British WW1 troops. Right here, visitors have purportedly experienced an eerie presence watching them, as if the fallen fighters themselves are sternly protecting their graves.
On somewhat less haunting note, in October 2007 political newspaper Der Spiegel documented that a dozen of wild boar had invaded the grounds of Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf, “devastating flowerbeds, ploughing up lawns and also masking hundreds of memorial stones with soil.” They showed up at the weekend, including their young were digging the grounds.
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