Deutz Cemetery
A park-like municipal cemetery in Cologne's Poll district, laid out in 1896 to serve the neighbouring Deutz and the final resting place of Nobel laureate Kurt Alder.
The Deutz Cemetery – officially the New Deutz Cemetery – is a municipal cemetery in the right-bank Cologne district of Poll. It takes its name from the neighbouring district of Deutz, for whose needs the burial ground was originally created.
At a Glance
- District
- Poll (right-bank Cologne)
- Opened
- 9 April 1896
- Area
- around 25.5 hectares
- Character
- park-like grounds with dense tree planting
- Main entrance
- Rolshover Kirchweg
- Getting there
- Raiffeisenstraße light-rail stop, a few minutes' walk away
- Highlight
- grave of chemistry Nobel laureate Kurt Alder
History
The cemetery opened on 9 April 1896 and replaced the Old Deutz Communal Cemetery on Deutz-Kalker Straße. That earlier ground had been created in 1822 and served the then-independent town of Deutz – which only became part of Cologne in 1888 – as a non-denominational burial place.
The old cemetery was closed soon after the new one opened, but it has survived to this day as a public park.
Location
The roughly 25.5-hectare grounds lie between Rolshover Kirchweg, the street Am Grauen Stein, the A559 motorway and a freight railway line running from the nearby Südbrücke. The main entrance is on Rolshover Kirchweg, only a few minutes' walk from the Raiffeisenstraße light-rail stop.
Grounds and Graves
As is typical for Cologne's municipal cemeteries, the Deutz Cemetery today appears as park-like grounds with dense tree planting. Several elaborate family tombs from its early years can be found in the entrance area on Rolshover Kirchweg.
Right of the main entrance, against the cemetery wall, lies the grave of the Cologne chemistry professor and chemistry Nobel laureate Kurt Alder.
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Address
Rolshover Kirchweg
Köln
Hours
Mo: 07:00–20:00
Di: 07:00–20:00
Mi: 07:00–20:00
Do: 07:00–20:00
Fr: 07:00–20:00
Sa: 07:00–20:00
So: 07:00–20:00
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Sources & links
- Official website
- Official website (retrieved 2026-07-17)
- Wikidata (retrieved 2026-07-11)
- Wikipedia (retrieved 2026-07-11, rev 243214731)
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