Berlin Companion Podcast

EPISODE 8 DEATH AND RAILWAYS: THE CEMETERY AT POTSDAMER BAHNHOF

Season 1 Episode 8

Last week we  talked about the long-vanished cemetery railway line which connected Berlin-Wannsee with Germany's second largest burial site, Berlin's Südwestfriedhof Stahnsdorf. This episode remains in the realm of both the dead and the railways but with a serious shift towards Berlin's centre.

This time we are travelling to the first half of the eighteenth century and will take it from there until we have reached (and left) one of Berlin's best-known railway termini, Potsdamer Bahnhof.

To see images of the old Dreifaltigkeitsfriedhof visit:

File:M Dreifaltigkeitskirche Berlin 1910.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

View of the church seen from Mohrenstraße looking west over Zietenplatz (Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1982-1213-508 / CC-BY-SA 3.0) - Wikipedia

To see photos of the first and the second Potsdamer Bahnhof look here:

First Potsdamer Bahnhof on a 1843  steel engraving by C Schulin after a drawing by E. Henning and in 1850 by an unknown author (both images in PD)

1890 Potsdamer Bahnhof with the cemetery before it (image in PD, here via Bildindex and Wikipedia)

You can see the exact position of the cemetery on the historic 1846 Berlin map here:
Kreuzberged - Berlin Companion

Sounds:
Main theme: “Assembly Line Frustration" © Ionics Music | TerraSound.de

Via Freesound:
"Bells and religious hymn on the top of "Dell'Avocata" mountain" by Felix Blume
"Train Stopping" by Vlatko Blazek via Freesound
"Gates of Heaven" by Theo Ther via Freesound
"Wales Steam-train" by Jrosin via Freesound
bbc_animals--f_07028130 via BBC Sound Effects

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