Alter Domfriedhof der St.-Hedwigs-Gemeinde, Historic Catholic cemetery in Mitte, Berlin, Germany.
The Old Cathedral Cemetery spans approximately two hectares in central Berlin and features a triangular layout with a Renaissance-style chapel built from terracotta bricks and copper roofing.
Established in 1834 as Berlin's first Catholic cemetery, it replaced an earlier burial ground at Oranienburger Tor and served the growing Catholic population of the expanding city.
The cemetery houses graves of notable figures including hotelier Lorenz Adlon, painter Carl Joseph Begas, and composer Josef Sucher, reflecting Berlin's artistic and business heritage.
Located at Liesenstraße 8 in postal code 10115, the cemetery welcomes visitors daily from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM with good accessibility and parking options.
The Berlin Wall once divided this cemetery during the Cold War, causing significant damage to graves and leaving visible remnants of border fortifications still present today.
Location: Mitte
Address: Liesenstraße 8, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Opening Hours: Monday-Sunday 08:00-17:00
Phone: +49302816856
GPS coordinates: 52.53876,13.37897
Latest update: November 7, 2025 09:18
More than thirty years after its fall, the Berlin Wall still shapes the city. Between the districts of Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg, and Friedrichshain, fragments of concrete, watchtowers, and memorial plaques recall the division of a capital and its people. Some sections remain intact, others have been turned into memorials or works of art, like the East Side Gallery. Along the old border lines, museums and parks bring these historical traces back to life: Checkpoint Charlie, Bernauer Straße, the Topography of Terror, and Mauerpark. Each site holds a particular stillness, reflecting a time that Berlin does not erase but keeps present in memory. These places invite visitors to understand, to feel, and sometimes simply to remember. At Bernauer Straße, the central memorial preserves original Wall sections alongside a documentation center. The East Side Gallery displays murals by artists from around the world along more than a kilometer of Wall. The border crossing at Bornholmer Straße was the first to open on November 9, 1989. Mauerpark, once a stretch of death strip and border zone, now fills with people gathering to celebrate and relax. Smaller traces like the former watchtower at Schlesischer Busch or the Wall fragment on Liesenstraße sit quietly among residential buildings, reminding passersby that the border once ran straight through daily life.
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