Audioguide

The cemetery was once surrounded by a wall with two gates: The small gate granted access to visitors, while the large gate was reserved for burials. An oak tree has accompanied the cemetery’s fate for centuries.

The site was vandalized by National Socialists in 1938, and the gravestones have been missing ever since. The nearby honourary grave of Siegmund Cohrs (1845-1924), the patron of the Hohenlychen sanatoriums, was also destroyed at the same time. Cohrs – a Christian of Jewish origin – was stripped of his honourary citizenship at the time and only regained it in 2013.