Guards of the death

Cemetery of Jerusalem and New Church

It was in 1735, then Berlin before the gates applied. He is one of the most significant cemeteries in Berlin - in historical, artistic and urban planning perspective. It is also the oldest city, is still buried on this day. What remained of the monuments are, among other things, information about the immigrant from Bohemia refugees who found a new home in Berlin and in the cemetery their final resting place. In the years 1735-1737, King Friedrich Wilhelm I set up for the Bohemian Protestants, even its own church. rest in the cemetery e.g. the composer and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, the mathematician and physicist Karl Wilhelm Borchardt and the poet and botanist, Adelbert von Chamisso