THE JEWISH CEMETERY

THE JEWISH CEMETERY
SCHÖNHAUSER ALLEE, BERLIN
JEWISH CEMETERY AT SCHÖNHAUSER ALLEE
Following an edict of the Royal government in 1817 banning the creation of new cemeteries within the city walls, the Jewish community had
a new, five-hectare burial ground laid out at Schönhauser Tor on severe geometric lines by Berlin’s City Architect, Friedrich Wilhelm Langerhans (1780-1851), in the years 1824-1827. To the left of the main
entrance at Schönhauser Allee were the hall of mourning – a NeoRomanesque brick building designed by the community’s architect,
Johann Hoeniger (1850-1913), about 1895 – the mortuary, and an
ancillary building. They replaced the more modest Neoclassical structures of Langerhans.
The consecration of the cemetery took place on 29 June 1827 with the
first burial. In the following decades over 20,000 graves and 700 family plots were laid out in the cemetery. In addition to the traditionally
modest form of grave steles the cemetery at the Schönhauser Allee
also contains grandiose family tombs.
JEWISH COMMUNITY
Of BERLIN
The list of famous Berlin personalities who were buried in the cemetery
reads like an extract from a Who‘s Who of the 19th century. They
include scholars, scientists, artists, politicians, publishers, business entrepreneurs and founders of social institutions. The following names
may be mentioned as representative of many: the co-founder of the
modern historiography of Judaism, Leopold Zunz (1794-1886); the
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We should like to draw the attention of visitors to the cemetery to the
following points: Gentlemen should cover their heads. A kippah may
be borrowed at the entrance to the cemetery. Please do not step on
the graves and do not sit on the gravestones, for these places must not
be desecrated, and the graves do belong to those who are buried in
them.
The tour of all the selected gravesites takes about two hours, but can
be shortened at any time to suit.
You can find all information on the cemetery and the tour via Internet
or smartphone at:
www.jewish-cemeteries-berlin.eu
www.jewish-cemeteries-berlin.mobi
JEWISH CEMETERY
SCHÖNHAUSER ALLEE, BERLIN
OPENING TIMES:
Schönhauser Allee 22
10435 Berlin
Mon – Thu
Fri
8:00 – 16:00
7:30 – 13:00
Phone: +49 (0) 30 – 441 98 24
Closed on Shabbat (Saturday), Sunday and jewish holidays
composer Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864); and the painter Max
Liebermann (1847-1935); the Berlin city councillor David Friedländer
(1750-1834); the publisher Leopold Ullstein (1826-1899); the banker
Gerson v. Bleichröder (1822-1893); and the founder of the Second
Old People’s Home of the Jewish Community, Moritz Manheimer
(1826-1916).
The cemetery was closed in 1880 with the opening of the large new
cemetery in Weissensee. Thereafter the only burials that took place in
the Schönhauser Allee cemetery were in the existing family gravesites;
the last was in the 1970s.
Bombing hits during the Second World War destroyed nearly all the
cemetery buildings and devastated many burial sites. All that remains
of the main portal today are the round-arched side entrance on the
right and the double grille of the central entrance. In the entrance area
commemorative plaques dating from the 1970s remind visitors of the
fate of the cemetery. In 2005, in place of the ceremonial hall which
was destroyed during the Second World War, a lapidarium was set
up containing 60 gravestones whose original sites could not be ascertained, as well as illustrated charts on Jewish cemetery culture and
Jewish mourning rituals.
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Zirle Hurwitz
37 Wilhelm Herz
44 Adolph Burchardt
52 Ludwig (Louis) Traube
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Hirsch Joachim Simon Landsberg
38 Joachim Liebermann
45 Albert Mosse G
53 Louis Oppenheim
3 Elieser Leiser Landshuth
39 Max Liebermann G
46 Ludwig Loewe
54 Max Lion
4 Bernhard (Benda) Wolff
40 Leopold Ullstein
47 Julius Lessing
55 Gerson Salinger
5 Hindchen Meyer
41 Adolph Ritter Liebermann
48 Valentin Manheimer
56 Julius Bleichröder
6 Jacob Joseph Oettinger
49 Samuel Grossmann
57 Paul Model
7 Adolph Ginsberg
42 Paul Meyer
50 Meyer Magnus
58 Adele Fränkel, née Unger
8 Ludwig Bamberger
43 Wolfgang Strassmann
51 Moritz Manheimer
59 Hermann Lehmann
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9 Marcus Kappel
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11 Julius Leopold Schwabach
12 Gerson von Bleichröder
60 Martin Zachart
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10 Georg Haberland
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13 Salomon Haberland
14 Julius Grünwald
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15 James Henry Simon
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16 Hermann Makower
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17 Leopold Zunz
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18 James Israel
19 Abraham Geiger G
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20 Josephine Levy-Rathenau
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21 Samuel Bacher Berend
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22 Meno Burg
23 Heinrich Benjamin Marckwald
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24 Giacomo Meyerbeer G
25 Jenny Hirsch
26 The March Martyrs
27 Julius Seligsohn
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30 Max Michael
31 Moritz Borchardt
32 Israel Hirschfeld
33 Valentin Weisbach
34 Hermann Veit Simon
35 Nathanael Pringsheim
36 Joseph Mendelssohn
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28 David Joachim Friedländer
29 Louis Sussmann-Hellborn
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