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Description
Essentials about Ohlsdorf Cemetery in brief
A cemetery as a place of interest? What may sound a little strange at first has a good reason in Hamburg. The Ohlsdorf Cemetery (Ohlsdorfer Friedhof) is not only a “simple” last resting place, but also the largest park cemetery in the world with an area of almost 400 hectares. More than 200,000 gravesites and a multitude of chapels, mausoleums and memorials are spread over the entire area. Many personalities and celebrities from politics, economy and culture are buried at the Ohlsdorf Cemetery, such as Hans Albers, Gustaf Gründgens, Roger Cicero and Helmut Schmidt.
The Ohlsdorf Cemetery park
Many people visit the cemetery not because of the memory of relatives and friends, but for its beautiful park with avenues and small forests of hundreds of different deciduous and coniferous species as well as many ponds and streams. Walkers can spend a whole day in the park. Due to its size even buses cross the cemetery.
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Phone
+49 40 593 88 – 0
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Opening hours
Apr. – Oct. | Nov. – Mar. |
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9 am – 9 pm | 9 am – 6 pm |
The pedestrian gates are open from 6 am.
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Admission fees
None.
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Location
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Getting there
By public transport:
U1: Stop Ohlsdorf
S1 and S11: Stop Ohlsdorf
Bus lines 170 and 720: Stop Haupteingang Ohlsdorf
By car:
The entire cemetery can be reached by car. Each chapel can be reached by car and all chapels have parking spaces.
Photos: Corradox, Kirschallee Friedhof Ohlsdorf, CC BY-SA 4.0 / Roland.h.bueb, Hamburg-friedhof-ohlsdorf-rosengarten, CC BY 4.0 / NordNordWest, Grabmal-Freilichtmuseum der Ämtersteine Ohlsdorf 1, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
Texts: Individual pieces of content and information from Wikipedia DE and Wikipedia EN under the Creative-Commons-Lizenz Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
English version: Partial machine translation by DeepL