Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery

Brandenburg · Tyskland · Kyrkogård · Uhygge 3/5

Funeral trains on the 'corpse railway' served this forest necropolis south of Berlin – and in the 1930s fifteen thousand graves were moved here when the capital dug up its dead.

The Südwestkirchhof in Stahnsdorf is one of Europe's largest cemeteries: over 200 hectares of pine forest where ivy has swallowed whole burial sections and Art Nouveau mausoleums loom between the trunks. It opened in 1909 so far from Berlin that a dedicated railway was built – Berliners dubbed it the Leichenbahn, the corpse railway, and special funeral trains carried coffins and mourners from Wannsee straight into the cemetery. In the 1930s the place saw something eerier still: when Berlin's planners cleared cemeteries in Schöneberg, around 15,000 graves were dug up and moved here, and the new quarters of the dead still bear the names 'old' and 'new reburial'. Visitors tell of twilight figures between the graves, and in the Norwegian stave-church replica that serves as chapel, time seems to have stopped.

FAQ

Hvor uhyggelig er Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery?

Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery har en uhyggefaktor på 3/5 ifølge Haunted Places’ verificerede vurderinger.

Hvor ligger Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery?

Stahnsdorf South-Western Cemetery ligger i Brandenburg, Tyskland.