Deutz cemetery
The Deutzer Friedhof (actually Neuer Deutzer Friedhof ) is a municipal cemetery in the Cologne district of Poll on the right bank of the Rhine . The cemetery is around 25.5 hectares in size and is located between Rolshover Kirchweg, Am Grauen Stein, the A559 and a freight railway line leading from the nearby southern bridge . The Raiffeisenstraße tram stop is a few minutes' walk from the main entrance to the cemetery on Rolshover Kirchweg.
The name of the cemetery is derived from the neighboring district of Deutz , for whose needs the burial site was originally created. The Deutz cemetery was opened on April 9, 1896 and served as a replacement for the old Deutz municipal cemetery on Deutz-Kalker Strasse, which was soon closed (but has been preserved as a public park to this day) . This was created in 1822 and served as a non-denominational burial place for the city of Deutz, which only became part of Cologne in 1888.
Today, the Deutz cemetery - typical of Cologne's municipal cemeteries - is a park-like facility with dense trees. In the entrance area on Rolshover Kirchweg there are several elaborate hereditary burials from the early days of the cemetery. Also worth mentioning is the grave of the Cologne chemistry professor and Nobel laureate in chemistry, Kurt Alder, on the cemetery wall to the right of the main entrance.
literature
- Günter Leitner: Cemeteries in Cologne - in the middle of life . Cologne 2003
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Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 30.1 ″ N , 6 ° 59 ′ 17.5 ″ E