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Cemetery

8 places in Cologne

Deutz Cemetery

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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.

Protestant Cemetery in Cologne-Mülheim

since 1614
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One of Cologne's oldest surviving cemeteries, established in 1612 in right-bank Mülheim and still in use for burials today.

Friedhof Trenkebergstraße

A small listed cemetery in Cologne-Meschenich with a war memorial and a collection of baroque stone crosses.

Kalker Friedhof

since 1904

Municipal cemetery from 1904 in Cologne-Merheim on the right bank of the Rhine, with around 14,000 graves and historic wall tombs.

Katholischer Friedhof Köln-Mülheim

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One of the oldest surviving cemeteries in Cologne, with a 13th-century chapel and still in use for burials today.

Mülheim Cemetery (Mülheimer Friedhof)

since 1904
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Municipal, park-like cemetery in Cologne-Höhenberg with a listed 1903 gatehouse.

Napoleon Stone at Melaten Cemetery

since 1853

A war memorial at Cologne's Melaten Cemetery, unveiled in 1853 in memory of Cologne soldiers who died in the Napoleonic Wars. Funded by 65 surviving veterans, it serves as both a memorial to the fallen and to the veterans.

Ostfriedhof

since 1946
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Laid out in 1946 as a woodland cemetery, this roughly 59-hectare burial ground in right-bank Dellbrück is among the most scenic cemeteries in the Cologne area, dotted with mixed forest and Bronze Age burial mounds.

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