List of cemeteries in Essen

The courtyard and old mourning hall of the park cemetery , Essen's largest grave

The list of Essen cemeteries shows those in today's Essen city ​​area that are still in use or are already closed. The city currently maintains (as of December 2014) 39 honorary graves of former lords, mayors and other deserving citizens.

Cemeteries that are still in use

Municipal cemeteries

Essen has the following 23 municipal cemeteries with a total area of ​​around 240 hectares:

graveyard	location	opening	size	Chapel among others	War graves	Remarks
Park cemetery	Huttrop Am Parkfriedhof 33 51 ° 27 ′ 2.9 ″  N , 7 ° 2 ′ 54.6 ″  E	1925	40.64 hectares	Mourning hall under monument protection	Second World War	Largest contiguous cemetery area in the city of Essen; two graves of honor in the city of Essen by Gustav Heinemann and the founder Claire Hennes, other personalities buried here: Christine Hengst (first school councilor in North Rhine-Westphalia), Karl Imhoff (civil engineer), Edmund Körner (architect), Max Prüß (building director), Robert Schmidt (Town planner and first association director of the Ruhr coal district settlement association ), Adolf Wagner (weightlifter)
Southwest Cemetery	Fulerum Fulerumer Straße 15b 51 ° 26 ′ 5.5 ″  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 0.5 ″  E	1910	32.27 ha	Prayer hall under monument protection	World War One World War II	Second largest burial place in the city of Essen with 2,827 war graves; Honorary graves of the city of Essen by Franz Dinnendahl , Wilhelm Holle , Heinz Renner , Wilhelm Nieswandt
Bredeney cemetery	Bredeney Westerwaldstr. 6 51 ° 24 '37  .6 " N , 6 ° 58' 51.6"  E	1909	7.07 hectares	chapel	World War One World War II	houses tombs of the industrial family Krupp and the grave of Berthold Beitz and Else Beitz ; Honorary graves of the city of Essen by Hans Toussaint , Waldthausen , Thea Rasche , Fritz Schupp
Mountain cemetery	Fischlaken Scheppener Weg 40b 51 ° 23 ′ 9 ″  N , 7 ° 2 ′ 1 ″  E	1934	13.77 hectares		World War One World War II	Honorary graves of the city of Essen by Horst Katzor , Kurt Jooss ; Also buried here are the city councilor and member of the state parliament, Josef Aust, and the federal minister for youth, family and health, Antje Huber
Cemetery on hello	Stoppenberg Hallostr. 120 51 ° 28 ′ 45 ″  N , 7 ° 3 ′ 12 ″  E	1918	17.4 ha		Second World War	Has a Muslim burial ground; Honorary grave of the city of Essen by Carl Meyer (Mayor of Stoppenberg)
Siepenfriedhof	Huttrop Becksiepen 14 51 ° 26 ′ 39 ″  N , 7 ° 2 ′ 48 ″  E	1917	2.55 hectares		No	The journalist Walter Wimmer is buried here.
Terrace cemetery	Schönebeck Kaldenhoverbaum 55 51 ° 27 ′ 21 ″  N , 6 ° 56 ′ 57 ″  E	1926	27.97 ha		Second World War	Two grave fields with a total of 1698 graves of prisoners of war and slave labor who perished in Essen during the Second World War; including 1667 from the Soviet Union, 11 Belgians, 7 Poles, 6 Yugoslavs, 3 Dutch, 3 from Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria; 300 of them are of unknown names; Honorary grave of the city of Essen by Heinrich Strunk
East cemetery	Südostviertel Saarbrücker Str. 76 51 ° 26 ′ 49 ″  N , 7 ° 1 ′ 52 ″  E	1893	8.35 hectares	chapel	No	Many grave monuments of the former Essen bourgeoisie were transferred from the abandoned cemetery at Kettwiger Tor to the east cemetery in 1955 . Honorary graves of the city of Essen by Erich Zweigert , Gustav Hache , Johann Conrad Kopstadt , Heinrich Arnold Huyssen , Karl Friedrich (Artur) Koenig (Mayor), Heinrich Varnhorst (Mayor), Wilhelm Weigle (Pastor), Edmund Lührmann , Wilhelm Busch , Carl Funke , Gottschalk Diedrich Baedeker , Diedrich Gottschalk Baedeker , Hans Piekenbrock , Heinrich Carl Sölling , Mary Wigman
City forest cemetery Kettwig	Kettwig At the Nittlau 41 51 ° 22 '1 "  N , 6 ° 57' 20"  O	1953	5.68 hectares		World War One World War II
North Cemetery	Altenessen -Nord Hauerstr. 27 51 ° 30 ′ 3 ″  N , 7 ° 1 ′ 0 ″  E	1874	21.98 ha		World War One World War II	Aenne Gehling , member of the state parliament, is buried here.
Hellweg cemetery	Freisenbruch Hellweg 95 51 ° 27 ′ 11 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 44 ″  E	1971	16.01 ha		No	Has had the only crematorium in the city of Essen since 1977 .
Kray cemetery	Kray Siegfriedstrasse 20 51 ° 27 '52 "  N , 7 ° 5' 17"  E	1904	6.88 hectares			Honorary grave of the city of Essen by Jacob Weber
Werden II cemetery	Are Heskämpchen 2 51 ° 23 '46 "  N , 7 ° 0' 23"  O	1876	3.28 ha	Mourning hall		Honorary graves of the city of Essen of the Werden mayors Joseph Breuer and Ludwig Soldan
Südfriedhof	Rüttenscheid Lührmannstr. 123 51 ° 25 ′ 37 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 7 ″  E	1900	2.99 ha	chapel	No	Surrounded by the Grugapark ; Honorary grave of the city of Essen by Paul Hans Jaeger , buried here is the city director Ernst Finkemeyer
Karnap Cemetery	Karnap Ahnewinkelstr. 51 51 ° 31 '22 "  N , 7 ° 0' 59"  E	1910	5.13 hectares		World War One World War II
Schildberg cemetery	Dellwig Richtstr. 20 51 ° 29 ′ 2 ″  N , 6 ° 54 ′ 50 ″  E	1914	6.86 hectares	Mourning hall	Second World War	40 war graves
Überruhr cemetery	Überruhr Holthuser Tal 20 51 ° 24 ′ 42 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 12 ″  E	1970	5.25 hectares		No	Buried here among others: Peter Reuschenbach , Lord Mayor
Heisingen I cemetery	Heisingen Georgkirchstr. 7 51 ° 24 '10 "  N , 7 ° 3' 55"  E	1879	1.84 ha		No	Honorary grave of the city of Essen by Emil Hagmann
Heisingen II cemetery	Heisingen change path 15 51 ° 24 ′ 16 ″  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 16 ″  E	1970	5.5 ha		No
Frillendorf cemetery	Frillendorf Ernestinenstr. 267 51 ° 27 ′ 42 "  N , 7 ° 2 ′ 58"  E	1905	2.7 ha		World War One World War II
Schonnebeck cemetery	Schonnebeck Friedhofstrasse 51 ° 28 ′ 37 ″  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 9 ″  E	1902	2.64 ha		No
Rellinghausen cemetery	Rellinghausen Am Glockenberg 36a 51 ° 25 ′ 31 ″  N , 7 ° 2 ′ 12 ″  E	1870	2.65 ha		No	Honorary grave of the city of Essen of Joseph Sartorius, Rellinghausen's sole mayor from 1876 to 1910, grave of the balloonist Karl Bernhard Bamler
Burgaltendorf cemetery	Burgaltendorf Worringstr. 4a 51 ° 25 '0 "  N , 7 ° 6' 30"  E	1968	0.82 ha		No

Evangelical cemeteries

graveyard	location	opening	size	Chapel among others	War graves	Remarks
Matthew Cemetery	Borbeck-center Marreweg 51 ° 28 '5 "  N , 6 ° 57' 0"  O	1859		Mourning hall, built in 1961	World War One World War II	buried here: Georg Melches (co-founder and functionary of Rot-Weiss Essen ), Heinz-Horst Deichmann (entrepreneur), August Gottschalk (football player)
Viktoriastrasse cemetery	Katernberg Pfarrstr. 10-11 51 ° 29 '47.6 "  N , 7 ° 2' 43"  E.			Mourning hall	World War One World War II
Dellwig-Frintrop-Gerschede community cemetery	Frintrop Pfarrstr. 10-11 51 ° 28 '52 "  N , 6 ° 55' 4"  E			Mourning hall	World War One World War II
Haarzopf community cemetery	Haarzopf Raadter Str. 79a 51 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 31.5 ″  E				First World War Second World War
Niederweniger Strasse cemetery	Kupferdreh Niederweniger Strasse 22 51 ° 23 ′ 32 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 28 ″  E			Chapel under monument protection	No
Überruhr cemetery	Überruhr Klapperstrasse 51 ° 25 ′ 20 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 42 ″  E				No
Freisenbruch cemetery	Freisenbruch Bochumer Landstrasse 51 ° 25 ′ 20 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 42 ″  E				World War One World War II
Hülsenbergstrasse cemetery	Horst Hülsebergstrasse 51 ° 26 ′ 20 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 16 ″  E			Mourning hall	No
Kirchfeldstrasse cemetery	Kettwig Kirchfeldstrasse 51 ° 21 ′ 59 ″  N , 6 ° 56 ′ 20 ″  E				No

Catholic cemeteries

graveyard	location	opening	size	Chapel among others	War graves	Remarks
Katernberg cemetery	Katernberg Viktoriastraße 51 ° 30 ′ 1.3 ″  N , 7 ° 2 ′ 28.5 ″  E				No
Haus-Horl-Strasse cemetery	Gerschede Haus-Horl-Strasse 120 51 ° 29 ′ 33 ″  N , 6 ° 56 ′ 53 ″  E				World War One World War II
Hülsmannstrasse cemetery	Borbeck-Mitte Hülsmannstrasse 51 ° 28 ′ 38 ″  N , 6 ° 56 ′ 57 ″  E				World War One World War II
Stoppenberg cemetery	Stoppenberg Essener Strasse 51 ° 28 ′ 29 ″  N , 7 ° 2 ′ 8 ″  E				No
Rosenhügel cemetery	Bochold Endstrasse 51 ° 28 ′ 26 ″  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 48 ″  E	1890			World War One World War II
Plant Street Cemetery	Condition planting road 51 ° 28 ′ 19 ″  N , 6 ° 54 ′ 39 ″  E			chapel	No
Dachstrasse cemetery	Borbeck-Mitte Dachstrasse 51 ° 28 ′ 7 ″  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 2 ″  E				Second World War
Catholic cemetery on Helenenstrasse	Altendorf Husmannshofstrasse 51 ° 27 ′ 47 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 2 ″  E				World War One World War II
Catholic cemetery on Margarethenstrasse	Holsterhausen Margarethenstr. 21 51 ° 26 ′ 56 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 2 ″  E				No	Grave site of football player Helmut Rahn
Catholic cemetery at the St. Elisabeth Church	Frohnhausen Dollendorfstrasse 51 ° 26 ′ 56.3 ″  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 39.3 ″  E	1994			No	houses four priestly graves
Schönebeck cemetery	Schönebeck Heißener Strasse 51 ° 27 ′ 13.5 ″  N , 6 ° 56 ′ 31 ″  E				No
Freisenbruch cemetery	Freisenbruch Bochumer Landstrasse 51 ° 27 ′ 3 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 7 ″  E				No
Lawrence Cemetery	Steele Laurentiusweg 51 ° 26 ′ 50 ″  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 19 ″  E				No
New Laurentiusfriedhof	Steele Am Stadtgarten 51 ° 26 ′ 40.6 ″  N , 7 ° 3 ′ 57.8 ″  E				No
Catholic cemetery on Rühlestrasse	Holsterhausen Ruhle road 51 ° 26 '23 "  N , 6 ° 59' 51"  O				No	The grave of the Hermann Reintjes family was declared a monument.
Steele-Horst cemetery	Horst Lindkensfeld 51 ° 26 '10 "  N , 7 ° 6' 21"  O			Mourning hall	Second World War
Überruhr cemetery	Überruhr Hinseler Hof 51 ° 25 '36 "  N , 7 ° 4' 35"  O				No
Burgaltendorf cemetery	Burgaltendorf Am Kirchhof 51 ° 24 ′ 59 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 47 ″  E	May 16, 1899			Second World War
St. Mark's cemetery	Bredeney Frankenstrasse 364 51 ° 24 ′ 52 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 46 ″  E	1887			No	The architect Emil Jung is buried here.
Byfang Cemetery	Byfang Auf der Knappe 51 ° 24 ′ 14 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 47 ″  E				No
Heisingen cemetery	Heisingen Kreuzstrasse 12 51 ° 24 ′ 10 ″  N , 7 ° 3 ′ 54 ″  E				World War One World War II
Kupferdreh cemetery	Kupferdreh An den Friedhöfe 51 ° 23 ′ 40 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 32 ″  E				No
Kupferdreh-Dilldorf cemetery	Copper lathe Rathgeberhof 51 ° 23 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 50 ″  E				No
Kettwig Cemetery (Cornelius Cemetery)	Kettwig Corneliusstrasse 51 ° 22 ′ 11 ″  N , 6 ° 56 ′ 6 ″  E				No
Kettwig cemetery	Kettwig Brederbachstraße 51 ° 21 '59 "  N , 6 ° 56' 20"  O			chapel	No
Kettwig cemetery in front of the bridge	Kettwig Höseler Weg 51 ° 21 ′ 15 ″  N , 6 ° 55 ′ 20 ″  E				Second World War

Jewish cemeteries

graveyard	location	Used from / to	size	Chapel among others	Remarks
Jewish cemetery in the park cemetery	Huttrop Schulzstrasse 25 51 ° 26 '56 "  N , 7 ° 3' 1"  E	opened in 1931		Mourning hall under monument protection

Cemeteries that are no longer occupied

graveyard	location	Used from / to	size	Chapel among others	Remarks
Altenessen-Süd cemetery, today Spindelmannpark	Altenessen -Süd Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard 51 ° 28 ′ 35 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 12.8 ″  E				The merchant Johann Heinrich Spindelmann (1878–1927) received an honorary grave from the city of Essen here because he bequeathed his fortune earned through cattle trading to the city so that it could set up a foundation in his name to support orphans. In return, the city undertook to maintain his grave.
Huttrop old cemetery	Huttrop Steeler Strasse 51 ° 26 ′ 47 "  N , 7 ° 2 ′ 42"  E	1878-1991		Morgue (no longer available)	Several tombs are now listed.
Kray old cemetery	Kray Leither Strasse 51 ° 28 ′ 1 ″  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 55.9 ″  E	End of 19th Century until 1991	around 7000 m²	Mortuary in the northern part (no longer available)	A main path separated the cemetery into a Protestant and a Catholic area. 615 burials took place in the Protestant part and 1189 in the Catholic part. After the city of Essen ruled out the possibility of acquiring the graves again in 1948, the cemetery was decommissioned in 1983. It was finally de-dedicated on March 20, 1991. The graves of Pastor Beck, the architect Carl Hausmnann, the Medical Councilor Birkenpesch and the Beckmann, Gantenberg and Ridder families are still there.
Westfriedhof, today Gervinuspark	Frohnhausen Kerckhoffstrasse 51 ° 27 ′ 3 ″  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 11 ″  E	1895-1959		Mourning Hall (no longer available)	The grave of the first and only mayor of Altendorf , the largest rural community in Prussia at the time , Wilhelm Kerckhoff , is preserved as a grave of honor for the city of Essen. Other tombs still exist today.
Old Rüttenscheid cemetery, today Christinenpark	Rüttenscheid Brassertstrasse 51 ° 25 ′ 57.1 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 18.5 ″  E
Segeroth old cemetery	Nordviertel Bottroper Straße 51 ° 28 ′ 1 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 53 ″  E	1863-1980s			Victims of the First World War and miners of two mine accidents at the Victoria Mathias and Amalie collieries are buried here. Essen's largest Jewish burial ground is located in the northeastern part. The graves of the founder Johann Heinrich Spindelmann and the mayor of Altenessen Theodor Stankeit will continue to be maintained as graves of honor for the city of Essen. The entire area has been redesigned into Segeroth Park with preserved tombs.
Baldeney Castle Cemetery	Bredeney Freiherr-vom-Stein-Strasse 51 ° 24 ′ 29.5 ″  N , 7 ° 1 ′ 25 ″  E	End of 17th – 19th century			small burial place of Baldeney Castle
Cemetery Werden I	Are Dückerstieg road 51 ° 23 '33.3 "  N , 7 ° 0' 9.1"  O	1824-1876			Cemetery east of St. Lucius Church , first mentioned in 1103, laid out in its current form in 1824, abandoned in 1876; today a park with a few preserved tombstones, plus statues of the former royal bridge by Otto von Bismarck , Helmuth von Moltke and Kaiser Wilhelm I , created by Wilhelm Albermann ; Former cemetery under monument protection since 1994
Pastoratsberg Jewish cemetery	Become Pastoratsberg 51 ° 22 ′ 54.5 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 8.4 ″  E	after 1830 to 1938			70 preserved tombstones, not open to the public
Hiltrops Kamp Jewish cemetery	Steele Hiltrops Kamp 51 ° 26 ′ 54 ″  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 3 ″  E	1855-1943
Reckhammerweg Jewish cemetery	North quarter Assmannweg 51 ° 28 '14.5 "  N , 6 ° 59' 58"  O	1885-1991			Essen's largest Jewish cemetery is located in the northeastern part of the former Segeroth cemetery. Today it is a listed building .; buried here: Simon Hirschland (founder of the Simon Hirschland Bank ), his son Isaac Hirschland (banker, city councilor of the city of Essen and councilor of commerce)

No longer existing cemeteries

graveyard	location	Used from / to	size	Chapel among others	Remarks
Cemetery at Kettwiger Tor	Südviertel at about the freedom 51 ° 27 ′ 0.5 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 48 ″  E	1827-1955		Morgue (no longer available)	first communal cemetery in the city of Essen outside its city ​​wall with family tombs of the long-established, sometimes important bourgeoisie
Catholic cemetery on Burgplatz	City center Burgplatz 51 ° 27 ′ 19.2 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 50.4 ″  E	used until 1826			The cemetery existed in the northern third of the Burgplatz and the cathedral courtyard for over 1000 years, and from 1522 to 1817 an ossuary chapel existed
Evangelical cemetery on Weberplatz	City center Weberplatz 51 ° 27 ′ 34.2 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 37.5 ″  E	1620 to 1827			The industrialist and company founder Friedrich Krupp was buried here in 1826 . His grave slab is now in the Bredeney cemetery .
Cemetery in front of the Viehofer Tor	North quarter	1863-1879			Due to the rapidly growing population of Essen at the time of industrialization, the cemetery was almost completely occupied in 1877 and was subsequently closed in 1879.
Borbeck Catholic Cemetery	Become Brückstrasse 51 ° 23 ′ 17.7 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 15.3 ″  E	Closed at the beginning of the 19th century			Former cemetery of Werden Abbey , had to give way to the expansion of Brückstrasse (B 224) at the beginning of the 19th century
Abbey cemetery	Borbeck-Mitte Germaniaplatz 51 ° 28 ′ 29.1 ″  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 7.6 ″  E	1840-1857			The cemetery was on the area of ​​today's Germaniaplatz.
Jewish cemetery in Lazarettstrasse	West quarter Lazarettstrasse (then Hoffnungsstrasse) 51 ° 27 ′ 14 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 18 ″  E	1837-1923			In 1941 about 36 tombstones were transferred to the park cemetery for military reasons . In 1973/1974 the former cemetery area was built over with a salvation army retirement home. Here was Moses Hirschland (doctor and city councilor of the city of Essen) buried.
Jewish cemetery on Lanterstrasse	Huttrop Lanterstraße 51 ° 26 '40.6 "  N , 7 ° 2' 21.4"  O	1837-1923			Area built over, location no longer visible on site
Jewish cemetery Am Knottenberg	Steele Hiltrops Kamp 51 ° 27 ′ 0.2 ″  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 4.2 ″  E	17th to 19th century			Nothing left, the area is built over today. The successor is the Hiltrops Kamp Jewish cemetery

Web links

• Cemeteries in Essen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Historisches Portal Essen: Graves of Honor ; accessed on May 27, 2020.
2. ↑ Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen (park cemetery, old mourning hall) (PDF; 517 kB); accessed on February 7, 2018
3. ↑ Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen (Südwestfriedhof) (PDF; 844 kB); accessed on February 7, 2018
4. ↑ Memorial plaque on site
5. ↑ Ev. Essen-Borbeck-Vogelheim community, Matthäusfriedhof ; last viewed on January 19, 2016
6. ↑ Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen (Kupferdreh) (PDF; 431 kB); accessed on February 7, 2018
7. ↑ St. Mary Rosary: ​​burial place on the rose hill ; last viewed on September 28, 2016
8. ↑ Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen (Holsterhausen) (PDF; 686 kB); accessed on February 7, 2018
9. ^ Erwin Dickhoff: Essener streets . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 , p. 38 .
10. ↑ Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen (Parkfriedhof) (PDF; 534 kB); accessed on February 7, 2018
11. ↑ Honorary graves for distinguished personalities of the city of Essen ; in: DerWesten.de from May 10, 2013; Retrieved on February 7, 2018 (Note: Segeroth cemetery is incorrect in the source)
12. ↑ Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen (Old Cemetery Huttrop) (PDF; 2.8 MB); accessed on December 27, 2016
13. ↑ historical portal Essen: old cemetery Kray ; accessed on December 27, 2016
14. ↑ Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen (PDF; 576 kB); accessed on December 27, 2016
15. ↑ Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen (north quarter) (PDF; 422 kB); accessed on February 7, 2018
16. ↑ Stadtarchäologie Essen
17. ↑ Monika Fehse: Food. History of a city . Ed .: Ulrich Borsdorf. Peter Pomp Verlag, Bottrop, Essen 2002, ISBN 3-89355-236-7 , p. 180 .
18. ↑ ground monument abbey church ; Retrieved January 5, 2017
19. ↑ Entry on the old Jewish cemetery in Lazarettstrasse in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on July 14, 2017.

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