Weißensee Cemetery

5 Tom Linton - 6 months ago

A truly peaceful place for a walk and surprisingly intact, if somewhat run-down, old grave stones. It's enormous, so give yourself plenty of time! Not open on Saturdays and men are required to wear a hat.

5 Z vovo - 4 months ago

In this cemetery people could see the history. Especially for me. I am a Chinese, when I wandered among the tombs, I found a tombstone which was carved with the word “China”. As a Chinese I can’t help having a look, but it was a tragic story. The owner of this tomb died in 1940. Before he leaved for Guangdong of China to flee from that calamity，he was arrested by SS, and then he was murdered. In Second World War, although Chinese people at that time were invaded by Japanese militarism and lived in the war-torn territory, they still accepted and helps a lot of jews. Today I saw this tombstone, I believed there must be some karma or connection between us in history, cause there were thousands tombs in this cemetery, but I just encountered this tomb and saw this tombstone. I hope the owner of this tomb could Rest In Peace and his soul could fulfill his wish in another world. Finally I hope everyone in his or her Life could enjoy the eternal peace, and all the wars could stop in the future.
Ps: you can only enter into the cemetery through the main entrance, cause the cemetery is enclosed with high walls. You can’t get into the cemetery with any other entrance, while the google map offered a wrong route, so It costed me a lot of time to find the right way.

4 Abeer Khshiboon - 2 years ago

Very big cemetery. It is the biggest graveyard I've seen. You need like 2 days with a guid to walk in all the streets there, and get interesting stories and information. The staff is not very welcoming. You should know what to wear to get yourself accepted in, which is fine. This is after all a place with a stong religious symbolic importance. I was surprised that I had to pay to get in.

2 Eva Nesselroth - 4 years ago

As a historical site it is an interesting, peaceful and lush urban oasis. However, as someone visiting to pay respect to my great grandparents' graves, I couldn't be more disappointed. Their graves were buried under toppled, broken headstones, ivy, broken trees, and other natural debris. I couldn't find them in their lot. Shameful lack of care for the older graves. I have a letter from them (dated 1950) promising care in perpetuity which they clearly are falling short of.

5 Lior Nitzan - 5 years ago

A very interesting site. You walk between the who's who of the 19th century Jewish community Berlin. The place is big so allow yourself time to stroll between the mausoleums. ..

1 Ineke Broerse (Inus) - 5 years ago

Very unfriendly people. I live nextdoor and wanted to go in to have a walk with my baby. A man came out of the house and told me I could not entry with the stroller. When I asked him why he could not answer me. So I said that I just wanted to have a little walk and that I'll stay on the path. Than he became angry at me. What a strange kind of discrimination is this?

5 arjuna thilo - 2 years ago

Immense, quaint and beautiful resting place