The state-owned forest cemetery is located in Berlin's Westend district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, not far from the Olympic Stadium. The name of the almost 15-hectare site refers to the Heerstraße villa colony, for whose residents the cemetery was laid out around the Sausuhlensee lake in 1921-1924. It is considered one of the most beautiful cemeteries in Berlin and has more than 50 honorary graves of the state of Berlin, e.g. with the graves of Paul Cassirer, Anneliese and Georg Groscurth, George Grosz, Georg Kolbe, Loriot, Maria von Maltzan and Joachim Ringelnatz, to name but a few.
The mourning hall (1921-23), designed by Erich Blunck, once had a pointed roof, but this interfered with the National Socialist rulers when the Olympic Stadium was being built - so a flat tent roof was installed; tall trees were also intended to obscure the view.
There are 1,278 graves of war victims at the war cemetery. Since 2010, it has been possible to be buried at the Volksbund's communal burial site (see www. gemeinschaftsgrabstaette.de ). More and more people are taking advantage of this opportunity to support the Volksbund's educational work during their lifetime with a tax-deductible donation, while the grave is cared for within the resting period after the burial.