Origins and development
The burial ground is documented from 1412. A Gothic Revival chapel was built in 1912, and a red-brick memorial from the 1920s commemorates Stralau residents killed in the First World War. The cemetery, chapel and war memorial have been protected since 1995. The village church is a late Gothic hall church from the fifteenth century. Its north wall carries the 1795 epitaph for Charlotte Dorothée Nusch, the oldest surviving grave monument in the cemetery.
Origins: First documented in 1412. The cemetery is in Alt-Stralau, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, at Tunnelstraße 5-11, 10245 Berlin. Its area is approximately 1.35 hectares.
Design and present-day character
A village churchyard beside the River Spree, with a medieval church, maple avenue and a Gothic Revival chapel.
Read this character description together with the development of Alt-Stralau Cemetery: 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.
Connect the account with the grounds
The cemetery map contains 15 named places for Alt-Stralau Cemetery. Among them are Pedestrian gate, Dorfkirche Stralau, Kriegerdenkmal. 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 Alt-Stralau Cemetery into a practical visit outline. For access questions or information tied to present cemetery operations, contact Evangelischer Friedhofsverband Berlin Stadtmitte, East regional administration, Landsberger Allee 48–50, 10249 Berlin rather than drawing operational conclusions from the historical account.