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18-438: The northern part of the cemetery was built between 1945 and 1947 by Herta Hammerbacher , and expanded from 1948 to 1954 by Max Dietrich . About a third of the area was forest, which was already 50 years old and was intentionally kept. The trees are mostly firs, with a few oaks, mountain-ashes and birches. Two straight paths in north–south direction structure the cemetery, connected by curved paths. The funeral halls are situated on

36-607: A certified horticultural technician. From 1926 to 1928, she worked in the Department of Landscaping Späth'schen nurseries in Baumschulenweg as horticultural technician. In 1928 she formed a partnership together with Ulrich Wolf, Kurt Lorenzen and Hermann Mattern, which continued for 20 years. Also in 1928 she married Hermann Mattern. Their daughter Merete Mattern (1930–2007) later worked as an architect and – partly with her mother – on ecological problems. After seven years

54-688: A locality of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf borough in southwestern Berlin . Until Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it was a part of the former borough of Zehlendorf . It is located between the mansion settlements of Grunewald and Lichterfelde West . Dahlem is one of the most affluent parts of the city and a center for academic research . It is home to the Freie Universität Berlin , with its architecturally significant Philological Library ("The Brain") . Several other research institutions and museums, as well as parts of

72-441: A natural hill. Between the entrance and the halls is a large U-shaped meadow which was originally designed as heath . The graves are arranged in rows, both in the meadow part as in the forest part. A war cemetery was created in 1953 for 1,183 Italian POWs , many of them unidentified, who died or were killed near Berlin. It is lined by trees and bushes and thus separated from the rest of the cemetery. The grave plates are arranged in

90-523: A regular pattern. Two halls, called Feierhallen (celebration halls) or Kapelle (chapel), on a hill were built from 1956 to 1958 by Sergius Ruegenberg  [ de ] and Wolf von Möllendorff  [ de ] . A larger and a smaller hall are connected by smaller administrative buildings. In front of the halls, two high walls covered with travertine symbolize the transition from life to death. The halls are reinforced concrete structures, with fronts of glass open to nature. Architect Ruegenberg,

108-532: A student of Hans Scharoun , built simple rectangular elements on the walls and ceiling, based on a square module, and achieved "zurückhaltende Feierlichkeit" (reticent solemnity). An entrance gate at the Potsdamer Chaussee was built in 1950 by Friedrich Dückerstieg, and a gate at Wasgensteig in 1959 by Hans-Joachim Sachse and Bernhard Busen. A bell tower on the meadow was created in 1973 by Ruegenberg and Möllendorff. Many Berlin celebrities are buried on

126-821: The Cold War Dahlem belonged to the American Sector of West Berlin . From 1945 to 1991 the seat of the Allied Kommandatura of Berlin was in Dahlem on Kaiserswerther Straße . Today it serves as the office for the president of the local university . Until 1994, the headquarters of the United States Army Berlin command and the Berlin Brigade were located on Clayallee street. Parts of the building are still used by

144-644: The Embassy of the United States in Berlin . The former library and Outpost theater across the street today house the Allied Museum . Because many of Berlin's artistic, cultural, and educational institutions were located in the city's historical center in the former eastern part of Berlin , West Berlin authorities established many duplicates in Dahlem - above all the Freie Universität Berlin (literally

162-662: The Grunewald forest with its renaissance hunting lodge, are located in Dahlem. The U3 line of the Berlin U-Bahn system connects Dahlem to central Berlin. The first written account of Dahlem dates to the year 1275. The history of the village is connected to the Dahlem Demesne ( Domäne Dahlem ) first mentioned in 1450. Its estates were sold to the state of Prussia in 1841 and developed by dividing it into lots for building villas and mansions , similar to

180-822: The TU Berlin . Hammersbacher was the daughter of engineer and economist John Hammersbacher and his wife Luise Feilitzsch. She initially grew up in Nuremberg. In 1910, the family moved to Berlin, where Hammersbacher attended the Cecilie Lyceum Girls school in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . In 1917 she began a horticultural apprenticeship in Burtenbach that resulted in the Castle Gardens of Potsdam-Sanssouci in 1918–1919. During this time she met

198-459: The " Free University Berlin") in 1948, which was established by students and scholars as an antipole to the increasingly communist " Universität Unter den Linden ". The newly founded university should uphold the traditional values of academic freedom and the educational ideal proposed by Wilhelm von Humboldt . Rudi Dutschke , spokesman of the German student movement in the 1960s, is buried at

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216-719: The Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf. 43 (as of 2002) have an Ehrengrab , cared for by the Berlin Senate (marked by * in the following list), including Willy Brandt , Mayor of Berlin and Bundeskanzler , and ballet dancer and choreographer Tatjana Gsovsky . Herta Hammerbacher Herta Hammersbacher (2 December 1900 in Nuremberg – 25 May 1985 in Niederpöcking near Starnberg ) was a German landscape architect who taught for more than 20 years at

234-690: The development of the older mansion settlements of Lichterfelde West and Grunewald . The Demesne buildings today house a working farm and an agricultural open-air museum . In 1920 the village was amalgamated into Greater Berlin . From 1931 on Martin Niemöller , a leader of the Confessing Church , was pastor of the United Protestant Sankt-Annen-Kirche until he was arrested by the Nazis in 1937. During

252-442: The gardener Karl Foerster , whose garden design ideas also influenced her. In the 1920s and 1930s, Hammersbacher belonged to what later was "Bornimer circle" with Karl Foerster and his wife Eva, the landscape architect Hermann Mattern and the landscape architect Walter Funcke, Hermann Goritz, Karl-Heinz Hanisch, Richard Hansen  [ de ] , Gottfried Kühn, Alfred Reich and Berthold Körting. From 1919 to 1920, she worked in

270-597: The just reopened TU Berlin. From 1950, until her retirement in 1969, she was a professor there. With the landscape-bound gardens she designed she shaped the style of landscape design in West Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. She created alone or jointly about 3,500 private and public projects in Berlin. She created gardens in the Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf and in the northern area of the TU Berlin and

288-528: The marriage was dissolved. Hammersbacher worked as a landscape architect with a number of renowned architects, including Otto von Estorff and Gerhard Winkler, who shaped the country-style room in Potsdam in the 1930s, and Hans Scharoun. In Löbau Hammersbacher designed the garden at the Schminke House . At Scharoun's recommendation, she was appointed, in 1946, lecturer in landscape and garden design at

306-706: The nursery Hellwig in Gartz (Oder) and met Wolfgang Schadewaldt who introduced her to Greek humanism. Then she moved into the region around Lake Constance , where, from 1920 until 1924 she worked in various establishments, wrote short stories and played first violin and viola for the Lindauer Orchestra "Symposia". In 1924, she studied at the Higher Teaching and Research Institute for Horticulture in Berlin-Dahlem . In 1926, she passed her exam as

324-554: The summer garden at the radio tower. Ten of the gardens she designed are national monuments, including the outdoor facilities of the architecture building of the TU Berlin. In 1985, Hammersbacher was awarded the Friedrich-Ludwig-of-Sckell Ring of Honour of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. Berlin-Dahlem Dahlem ( German: [ˈdaːlɛm] or [ˈdaːləm] ) is

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