The St. Elisabeth Cemetery in Berlin-Mitte was opened in 1844 by the Protestant St. Elisabeth Parish and designed as a cemetery with tree-lined avenues. It covers 2.69 hectares and is protected as a garden monument. The older Cemetery II of the St. Sophia Parish is located in the immediate vicinity, while a second St. Elisabeth Cemetery was established in Gesundbrunnen in 1875.
The parish was founded in the early 1830s around St. Elisabeth Church, designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel; the chapel, built in the Brick Gothic style, was constructed around 1884. During the division of Berlin, parts of the cemetery lay within the border strip of the Berlin Wall, resulting in graves being relocated and sections being abandoned. Since the merger of the parishes in 1999, the cemetery has belonged to the present-day Weinberg Parish.
