Origins and development
The Roman Catholic cemetery was established on Gottlieb-Dunkel-Straße in 1867. A long central avenue serves the narrow grounds along Gradestraße. The older St Michael Cemetery is on Hermannstraße. People buried here include Otto Rosenberg, a survivor of Nazi persecution and co-founder of the Berlin-Brandenburg association of German Sinti and Roma. His grave has been an honorary grave of Berlin since 2016.
Origins: 1867. The cemetery is in Mariendorf, Tempelhof-Schöneberg, at Gottlieb-Dunkel-Straße 29, 12099 Berlin. Its area is approximately 5.06 hectares.
Design and present-day character
New St. Michael Cemetery was established in 1867. The honorary graves include that of Otto Rosenberg.
Read this character description together with the development of New St Michael 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 7 named places for New St Michael Cemetery. Among them are Pedestrian gate, Industriestraße, Rixdorfer Straße/Ullsteinstraße. 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 New St Michael Cemetery into a practical visit outline. For access questions or information tied to present cemetery operations, contact Catholic parish Bernhard Lichtenberg Berlin-Mitte; central parish enquiry rather than drawing operational conclusions from the historical account.