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Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf | |
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Established | 1909 |
Location | |
Country | Germany |
Coordinates | 52°23′20″N 13°10′50″E / 52.388889°N 13.180556°E |
Type | Protestant cemetery |
Owned by | Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia |
Size | 206 ha |
No. of interments | +120,000 |
Website | The official website |
Find a Grave | Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf |
The Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery (German: Südwestfriedhof Stahnsdorf der Berliner Synode) is a Protestant rural cemetery in Germany. Established in 1909, the cemetery is located in the municipality of Stahnsdorf in Potsdam-Mittelmark district, Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. With a land area of approximately 206 ha, it is the largest church-owned Christian cemetery in Germany, as well as being the tenth largest cemetery in the world and Germany's second largest cemetery after Hamburg's Ohlsdorf Cemetery.[1] The cemetery is operated by the administration of the Berlin City Protestant Synod Association.[2] Due to its status as one of the most important landscape parks in the Berlin metropolitan area, along with the large amount of historically valuable tombs and other buildings which include the landmark wooden chapel, the cemetery was designated as a place of special importance and a protected area by the state of Brandenburg in 1982.