{"id":213,"date":"2025-12-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stadt-adventskalender.de\/prenzlauerberg\/?p=213"},"modified":"2025-11-13T08:02:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T07:02:34","slug":"08-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stadt-adventskalender.de\/prenzlauerberg\/en\/08-2\/","title":{"rendered":"08"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":1} -->\n<h1>8<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-42 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/stadt-adventskalender.de\/prenzlauerberg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2021\/09\/08.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/h1>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>A burial ground without crosses<\/h4>\n<!-- \/wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>\u201cThis is a land of heathen, darker and harsher that Afrika or India\u201d thus fulminated pastor Hermann Priebe in 1929 and referred to the graveyard of the Freireligi\u00f6se Gemeinde (Free religious community) at the Pappelallee in today\u2019s Helmholzkiez (Helmholz quarter): \u201cIt belongs to proletarian libertines who adhere the most blatant atheism and are sworn enemies of all religion \u2026\u201d<br>In fact, \u201cThe world rules itself with laws eternal\u201d is the guiding principle in the ceremonial hall and this describes a fundamental spiritual attitude that included the avoidance of religious convictions and not least of the church itself as an institution. After its founding on 1845, apart from excommunicated or seceded members of the Catholic church it was reform-minded Protestants and secular Jews who became members of the Freireligi\u00f6se Gemeinde. Later, social democrats like Heinrich Roller were important members. Roller in 1875 invented his own stenography system which he called Weltkurzschrift (World Shorthand). Roller\u2019s signet, a winged quill, graces his striking grave that is flanked by the sculpture of a woman holding a pen.<br>In the mid-1800s, shorthand was the fastest and most modern method of taking notes. Since the Freireligi\u00f6se Gemeinde was deemed suspicious and therefore was subjected to permanent police surveillance, Roller\u2019s invention was of particular importance. The community hired a stenographer who prepared minutes of all meetings as a measure against false reports.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 A burial ground without crosses \u201cThis is a land of heathen, darker and harsher that Afrika or India\u201d thus fulminated pastor Hermann Priebe in 1929 and referred to the graveyard of the Freireligi\u00f6se Gemeinde (Free religious community) at the Pappelallee in today\u2019s Helmholzkiez (Helmholz quarter): \u201cIt belongs to proletarian libertines who adhere the most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stadt-adventskalender.de\/prenzlauerberg\/en\/08-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">08<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alle-offenen-tuerchen","category-allgemein"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 11:51:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stadt-adventskalender.de\/prenzlauerberg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stadt-adventskalender.de\/prenzlauerberg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stadt-adventskalender.de\/prenzlauerberg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stadt-adventskalender.de\/prenzlauerberg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stadt-adventskalender.de\/prenzlauerberg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stadt-adventskalender.de\/prenzlauerberg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/stadt-adventskalender.de\/prenzlauerberg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stadt-adventskalender.de\/prenzlauerberg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stadt-adventskalender.de\/prenzlauerberg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stadt-adventskalender.de\/prenzlauerberg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}