Ohlsdorfer Friedhof

A city in the city. Beautiful trees. Great graves. The largest cemetery in Europe.

Ehrenfriedhof in the form of a baroque garden with staircase and towering Christ figure laid out on the merited Hamburg personalities to find their last rest. Various mayors and merchants, but also artists are buried in this park part, which today is called "Althamburgischer Gedächtnisfriedhof".

A huge cemetery. What is forbidden on other cemeteries knitting is possible here. He is so tall that you can even drive him by car. Even an official bike path goes right through and joggers are not looked at askew. Impressive.

Here you can walk for hours, basically hiking, so huge is the complex. The nearest S-Bahn station is Ohlsdorf.

The park and forest cemeteries in Hamburg are characterized by the special combination of enchanted parks and historic tombs embedded in the landscape. They are green oases of peace amid the bustling metropolis of Hamburg. As soon as one has left the cemetery fence behind, one dives into the world of tree giants and woody plants, the natural streams and hills.
If you have installed the app "Friedhof Ohlsdorf" on the smartphone, you can enter the Grablage directly and lead to the grave.

The Ohlsdorf Cemetery is the largest park cemetery in the world and feels just like that: A large park in which there are also graves. A beautiful place of rest, where you can discover life everywhere.

The cemetery Ohlsdorf forms with gravestones, chapels, mausoleums, open spaces and trees on a total area of almost 400 hectares the largest park cemetery in Europe and a unique landscape park.
The cemetery invites you for a walk because of its spacious area - no matter in which season. An estimated 1.2 million visitors come annually.The Ohlsdorf Cemetery app also lets you explore the sprawling complex on your own, providing information on over 800 sites on the site, including 580 celebrity tombs, chapels and mausoleums, as well as toilets, emergency telephones or bus stops The maps can also be used offline.The app for iOS and Android is available in German and English in the App Store and the Google Play Store.The cemetery was inaugurated in 1877. The design in the following decades took over the garden architect and first Ohlsdorf cemetery director Wilhelm Cordes. He wanted to create a publicly accessible park from the beginning - Hamburg's city park and thus a free recreational opportunity did not exist in Hamburg at the time. This was only opened in 1914. With the cemetery Ohlsdorf Cordes delivered his life's work. Since 1989, the Förderkreis Ohlsdorfer Friedhof (Cemetery Ohlsdorfer Friedhof) has been taking care of the cultural interests and preservation of the site.hamburg.de/sehenswuerdigkeiten/1071962/friedhof-ohlsdorf

A great place full of space and versatility

The cemetery as a romantic landscape garden with winding paths, hills and ponds - a recreational area for the living and not just a resting place of the dead: After this idea, the architect and first cemetery director Wilhelm Cordes put on the first part of the park cemetery. Every deceased should rest there in his grave as in his own little paradise garden. On 1 July 1877, the cemetery is ceremoniously opened. From 1882, the church cemeteries, which had been outside the city since 1812 for hygienic reasons, were gradually closed down. For the coming decades, Ohlsdorf is the only burial place in Hamburg. Soon, the first representative tombs and mausoleums of wealthy Hamburg shipowners, merchants and architects will be created.

The Althamburg Memorial Cemetery, directly at the main entrance of the Ohlsdorf Cemetery, is designed in the style of an English landscape garden and impresses with its accurately cut taxus bushes and the historic staircases made of red Main Sandstone in the style of the first cemetery director Wilhelm Cordes. It was created between 1896 and 1905. In the 1920s, overpasses from other cemeteries took place here. He is the honorary cemetery for famous Hamburgers. Among many other personalities are the tombs of the painter Anita Ree, the architect Fritz Schumacher, the theater director Ida honor or the founder of the Kunsthalle in Hamburg Alfred Lichtwark.
Above an embankment, a large figure of Christ greets and blesses the memorial cemetery and the guest. It was donated in 1904 by the shipowner Friedrich Wencke, created by the hand of the Swiss artist Xaver Arnold.
Source (Friedhof-Hamburg.de)

The park and forest cemeteries in Hamburg are characterized by the special combination of enchanted parks and historic tombs embedded in the landscape. They are green oases of peace amid the bustling metropolis of Hamburg. As soon as one has left the cemetery fence behind, one dives into the world of tree giants and woody plants, the natural streams and hills.
If you have installed the app "Friedhof Ohlsdorf" on the smartphone, you can enter the Grablage directly and lead to the grave.

The Ehrenfriedhof is part of the Ohlsdorf cemetery.

The green lung of the big city!