About the cemetery
The cemetery was founded in 1856 and it is one of Berlin´s most significant listed graveyards, with more than 60 graves of very important personages.
For example the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the doctor and politician Rudolf Virchow, the educationalist Adolf Diesterweg and the composer Max Bruch. Many impressive grave architectures and sculptures are of considerable artistic value, created by architects and artisans of the Prussian Empire, some of them are buried here, for example Friedrich Drake, Heino Schmieden and Alfred Messel. Tomb sponsorships, many queer gravesites of the last 30 years, First cemetery café of Berlin “Café finovo”, EFEU e.V (Friends of the cemetery).
Contacts
Old St. Matthew`s Cemetery
Großgörschenstraße 12-14
D-10829 Berlin Germany
Tel. +49 0307811850
Tel/Fax: +49 0307883435
e-mail: kirchhoefe@zwoelf-apostel-berlin.de
Website: http://www.zwoelf-apostel-berlin.de/kirchhoefe
Useful web site
http://www.grabpatenschaften-berlin.de
http://www.efeu-ev.de
http://www.berlin.de/
http://www.visitberlin.de/
http://www.bvg.de/
The cemetery was founded in 1856 and it is one of Berlin´s most significant listed graveyards, with more than 60 graves of very important personages.
For example the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the doctor and politician Rudolf Virchow, the educationalist Adolf Diesterweg and the composer Max Bruch. Many impressive grave architectures and sculptures are of considerable artistic value, created by architects and artisans of the Prussian Empire, some of them are buried here, for example Friedrich Drake, Heino Schmieden and Alfred Messel. Tomb sponsorships, many queer gravesites of the last 30 years, First cemetery café of Berlin “Café finovo”, EFEU e.V (Friends of the cemetery).
Contacts
Old St. Matthew`s Cemetery
Großgörschenstraße 12-14
D-10829 Berlin Germany
Tel. +49 0307811850
Tel/Fax: +49 0307883435
e-mail: kirchhoefe@zwoelf-apostel-berlin.de
Website: http://www.zwoelf-apostel-berlin.de/kirchhoefe
Useful web site
http://www.grabpatenschaften-berlin.de
http://www.efeu-ev.de
http://www.berlin.de/
http://www.visitberlin.de/
http://www.bvg.de/
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Old St. Matthew`s Cemetery, Berlin, Germany, description, member of ASCE, part of European Cemeteries Route