Origins and development
The cemetery opened on 28 March 1909 to Louis Meyer’s landscape design. The wooden chapel was built in 1908–1911. A cemetery railway connected the grounds with Wannsee from 1913 until the Berlin Wall was built in 1961; that rail connection no longer exists.
Origins: 28 March 1909. The cemetery is in Stahnsdorf, south-west of Berlin, at Bahnhofstraße 2, 14532 Stahnsdorf. Its area is approximately 206 hectares.
Design and present-day character
An extensive Protestant forest cemetery with a Norwegian-style wooden chapel, historic family graves and blocks named after parishes.
Read this character description together with the development of Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf: it identifies what gives the grounds their present identity without turning the cemetery into a purely historical attraction. A visit can focus on spatial structure and named orientation points while leaving individual graves undisturbed.
Distinctive features on the grounds
The wooden chapel was built in 1908–1911 to Gustav Werner’s designs.
The cemetery railway to Wannsee opened in 1913 and closed in 1961.
The parish burial sections are called blocks.
Connect the account with the grounds
The cemetery map contains 19 named places for Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf. Among them are Norwegische Holzkirche, Südwestkirchhof cemetery office, Infohaus. Use these names to relate the historical account to locations visible during a visit, without assuming that every historical feature has its own marker.
Continue the visit
The cemetery tour turns selected named points at Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf into a practical visit outline. For access questions or information tied to present cemetery operations, contact Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia; Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf rather than drawing operational conclusions from the historical account.