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Berlin - Jüdischer Friedhof Weißensee
Jüdischer Friedhof Weissensee - October 2018
The nearly 400,000 square meter cemetery must be one of Europe's most beautiful and largest Jewish cemeteries. The cemetery houses 115,000 Berlin citizens. It is approx. 1 km. long and 500 m. wide. It is the final resting place of many famous Jewish Berliners, including the painter Lesser Ury, the composer Louis Lewandowski and the Tietz department store founder, Oscar Tietz. When the Nazis came to power, the department stores that Tietz founded were aryanized and forcibly transferred to non-Jewish owners and thus became part of Hertie, KaDeWe.
Friedhof Weissensee - October 2018
The Jewish cemetery is definitely worth a trip and you enjoy the silence and the bird life, but when you see the many tombstones for the Jews who committed suicide because they would not be forcibly interned in the Nazi death camps, the mood undeniably drops a bit.
Joseph Schwarz (1880 - 1926)
The picture above shows the mausoleum of one of the famous German chamber singers of the time, but what few people know, during Nazism it was also the haunt of several Jews on the run. They crawled up through the glass ceiling of the mausoleum, where they hid under the roof. There has not been much space, but it has been a hiding place for a while - but then no more. Unfortunately, the Nazis managed to track them down.
The ceiling under the roof of the mausoleum - Joseph Schwarz - October 2018
Unfortunately, the mausoleum is collapsing (2018) and for the same reason, it has been shut down - one must hope, however, that it will be restored in the near future, as it contains an important story (I have just heard - March 2024 - that money has now been found to restore the mausoleum).
If you want to find the mausoleum, you can use the map below to your advantage.
Map of Friedhof Weissensee with a marker of where to find Joseph Schwartz's mausoleum
Friedhof Weissensee - October 2018
Address:
Markus-Reich-Platz 1, 13088 Berlin
Transport:
S-Bahn: Greifswalder Str.
Links:
Wanted
Berlin is always worth a visit - summer or winter - but where to go? Here are some slightly unusual and very different suggestions for places I like to go.
Interesting places
A B C
"Boxhagener Platz" - Old military hospital |
Bendlerblock" - Memorial and museum |
"Berlin Untervelten" - Berlin's "Underworld" |
"Bernauer Straße" - About the Berlin Wall etc. |
"Bornholmer Straße - Former border crossing east/west |
"Boxhagener Platz - Green area and flea market" |
D E F
"Europacenter" - Shopping center etc. |
Flakturm Humboldthain" - Bunker facility WW2 |
"Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg" - Busy airport |
"Flughafen Berlin Tempelhof" - Recreational area.
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"Escape tunnels between East and West Berlin - Kold krig
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"Friedhof Invalidenhof - Soldiers Cemetery |
G H I J K
"Old Danish Embassy" - Tiergarten |
Gedenkstätte Plötzensee" - Memorial |
"Glienicker Brücke" - Dividing East/ West |
- "Pallasstrasse bunker" Bunker i centrum |
" Weissensee Jewish Cemetery - Jewish cemetery |
Karlshorst - German-Russian Museum" |
L M N O P Q R S
"Majakowskiring" |
Prenzlauer Berg" - Memorial |
"Schöneberg town hall" - JFK tale" |
"Schwerbelastungs- |
" Friedhof Grunewald-Forst - Cemetery for suicides |
SS residences – Zehlendorf |
S T U V X Y Z
"Stasimuseum" - Stasimuseum |
Teufelsberg" - NSA in Grunewald |
"Tiergarten" - The Nordic Embassies" |
"Tiergarten - Siegessäule" 67 meter tall victory column |
"Villa Riefenstahl - Leni Riefenstahls House |
"Zionskirche Prenzlauerberg - Where Bonhoeffer preached |
Recreational areas:
"Grunewald"
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Strandbad Wannsee"
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"Tempelhofer Park" |
"Tiergarten" |
"Volkspark Friedrichshein - Recreational area |
"Volkspark Jungfernheide" - Recreational area |
Food and drinks:
"Biergarden am Neuen See" in the Tiergarten. |
Biergarden "Prater" - From 1837 and the oldest |
Biergarden "Schleusenkrug", "Biergarden in Tiergarten". |
"Mustafa’s Gemüse Kebap" - known all over Berlin |
"Restaurant Zillemarkt" Unfortunately closed by now |
"Zur letzten Instanz" - Oldest restaurant in Berlin |
