List of cemeteries in Bremen

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Cemetery chapel on the Osterholz cemetery

There are 13 municipal cemeteries in the municipality of Bremen , which are managed by the Bremen Environment Agency . There are also two Jewish cemeteries, a Catholic cemetery and some Protestant ( Protestant-Lutheran and Protestant-Reformed ) cemeteries.

The common crematorium of all Bremen cemeteries is located at the Huckelriede cemetery.

The following tables show cemeteries in the city of Bremen , sorted from north to south in relation to the districts, city and districts, first to the right of the Weser from Rekum to Mahndorf and then further to the left of the Weser with Seehausen to Arsten.

Cemeteries that are still in use

graveyard District, district, street
and location		 opening size Denomination Chapel among others Comments, website (s), cemetery plans
Right the Weser
Rekum cemetery Blumenthal  /  Rekum
Hörnstrasse 53 ° 13 ′ 38 ″ N, 8 ° 30 ′ 47 ″ E
 ? evang.-ref. chapel Cemetery of the ev.-ref. Church of Rekum and the ev.-ref. Parish Neuenkirchen, no war graves
Rönnebeck cemetery Blumenthal  /  Rönnebeck
At the official pasture
53 ° 11 ′ 41 ″ N, 8 ° 32 ′ 2 ″ E 		? evang.-ref. chapel Cemetery of the ev.-ref. Rönnebeck-Farge community. Also called Farger Friedhof , it is not in the Farge-Rekum district .
Blumenthal forest cemetery Blumenthal  / Lüssum-Bockhorn
Turnerstrasse 201
53 ° 12 ′ 16 ″ N, 8 ° 33 ′ 45 ″ E 		1966 11 or 24 ha urban chapel no war graves. Cemetery plan
Blumenthal Catholic Cemetery Blumenthal  / Lüssum-Bockhorn
Neuenkirchener Weg
53 ° 12 ′ 6 ″ N, 8 ° 33 ′ 47 ″ E 		1911 ~ 2 ha Catholic chapel Narrow, geometrically arranged cemetery with a central chapel, no older graves before 1930, no war graves and no memorial.
The cemetery from 1860 on Fresenbergstrasse, opposite the St. Marien church, was used until 1911.
Cemetery on Godenweg Blumenthal  / Lüssum-Bockhorn
Godenweg 53 ° 11 ′ 39 ″ N, 8 ° 34 ′ 45 ″ E
 ? evang.-luth. chapel Cemetery of the Protestant Martin Luther community in Blumenthal, brick-Gothic chapel, next to it a wooden cross in honor of those who fell in the two world wars.
Blumenthal cemetery (ev.-ref.) Blumenthal
Landrat-Christians-Strasse
53 ° 10 ′ 59 ″ N, 8 ° 35 ′ 3 ″ E 		? evang.-ref. church Cemetery of the ev.-ref. Bremen-Blumenthal parish, some older graves a. a. a small urn mausoleum, grave complex of the Ferdinand Ullrich family made of black granite with a central bronze figure, small complex of war graves behind the church, church tower from 1604 as a memorial for the fallen of the two world wars, next to it a privately donated memorial, near the tower some old tombstones from the time End of the 18th / beginning of the 19th century [1]
Neu-Aumund cemetery Vegesack  / Aumund-Hammersbeck
Beckstrasse
53 ° 11 ′ 27 ″ N, 8 ° 36 ′ 41 ″ E 		1928 13.8 ha urban chapel War graves: yes ( World War II ). Cemetery plan
Vegesack cemetery Vegesack  / Fähr-Lobbendorf
Lindenstrasse
53 ° 10 ′ 45 ″ N, 8 ° 35 ′ 49 ″ E 		1876 ~ 1.7 ha evangelical chapel New Vegesack Cemetery , graves of many shipowners , shipbuilders and captains, tombs of Johann Lange , Bernhard Schröder and Gerhard Rohlfs , chapel from 1930 based on plans by Ernst Becker-Sassenhof , cenotaphs in the old cemetery next to the Vegesack town church . [2]
Alt-Aumund cemetery Vegesack
Johann-Fromm-Weg
53 ° 10 ′ 24 ″ N, 8 ° 37 ′ 45 ″ E 		? evangelical chapel Cemetery of the parish Alt-Aumund .
Grohn cemetery Vegesack  / Grohn
Steingutstrasse
53 ° 10 ′ 12 ″ N, 8 ° 39 ′ 9 ″ E 		1907 evangelical chapel Cemetery of the Protestant St. Michaels parish of Grohn, many graves with uniform grave slabs made of red granite, south a demarcated area of ​​the Leffers family with a small memorial house, small mausoleum of the Otto Freise family .
Lesum cemetery Burglesum / Lesum
Bördestrasse
53 ° 10 ′ 18 ″ N, 8 ° 41 ′ 27 ″ E 		? evangelical chapel Cemetery of the St. Martini parish Bremen-Lesum.
Grambke cemetery Burglesum / Burg-Grambke
Behind the Grambker Church 7
53 ° 8 ′ 33 ″ N, 8 ° 43 ′ 2 ″ E 		? evangelical church Cemetery of the Protestant parish of Grambke.
Mittelbueren cemetery Burglesum  / Werderland
Mittelbürener Landstrasse 36
53 ° 7 ′ 43 ″ N, 8 ° 39 ′ 14 ″ E 		? evangelical Moorless church Cemetery of the Evangelical Parish of Mittelbüren.
Wasserhorst cemetery Blockland / Wasserhorst
Wasserhorst 12
53 ° 9 ′ 49 ″ N, 8 ° 44 ′ 24 ″ E 		? evangelical church Cemetery of the ev. Parish Wasserhorst.
Oslebshausen cemetery Gröpelingen / Oslebshausen
Ritterhuder Heerstraße 3
53 ° 8 ′ 2 ″ N, 8 ° 44 ′ 17 ″ E 		? evangelical church Cemetery of the Protestant parish of Oslebshausen, small, geometric cemetery, paths and areas between the graves are based on sand, oldest grave monuments ( obelisk-shaped gravestones made of black granite) from 1890 to 1905, black granite obelisk in honor of the resistance fighter Dietrich Bonhoeffer behind the church .
Gröpelingen cemetery Gröpelingen
Gröpelinger Heerstraße 262
53 ° 7 ′ 11 ″ N, 8 ° 45 ′ 14 ″ E 		1902 1 ha urban no Small, geometric cemetery, mainly based on lawn, oldest tombs (gravestones in obelisk shape made of black granite) from 1895 to 1905.
Waller cemetery Walle
Waller Friedhofstrasse
53 ° 6 ′ 25 ″ N, 8 ° 46 ′ 11 ″ E 		1875 28.9 ha urban chapel Park / lawn cemetery with two lakes, war graves from the two world wars and a large memorial, many artistically designed tombs from 1875 to around 1920, the Knoop mausoleum is worth mentioning . →  Article including cemetery plan.
Horn cemetery Horn-Lehe
Horner Heerstr. 30
53 ° 5 ′ 49 ″ N, 8 ° 52 ′ 9 ″ E 		? evangelical church Cemetery of the Protestant parish of Horn, probably the most densely occupied cemetery in Bremen, paths and areas between the graves are based on sand and gravel, older large crypt to the left of the church, wall fencing.
Riensberg cemetery Schwachhausen  / Riensberg
Friedhofstrasse
53 ° 5 ′ 36 ″ N, 8 ° 51 ′ 36 ″ E 		1875 28.1 ha urban Chapel, columbarium Riensberger Friedhof , administration Park / lawn cemetery with a lake and streams, with most of the artistically designed tombs, a large number of graves of prominent Bremen residents, mausoleums Rutenberg and Schmiedell and the tombs of Johann Höpken , August Hammerschlag , GW Focke and HA Gildemeister , no war graves and no memorial. →  Article including cemetery plan.
New Jewish cemetery Schwachhausen
Beckfeldstrasse 		2008 Jewish Surrounded by a moat and a wall.
Borgfeld cemetery Borgfeld
Katrepeler Landstrasse 9
53 ° 7 ′ 34 ″ N, 8 ° 54 ′ 20 ″ E 		? evangelical church War graves: no.
Oberneuland cemetery Oberneuland
Hohenkampsweg 6
53 ° 5 ′ 30 ″ N, 8 ° 56 ′ 19 ″ E 		? evangelical Church and chapel Cemetery of the Protestant parish of Oberneuland, war graves and a memorial for those who died in both world wars, historical tombstones next to the chapel, many older tombstones from before 1930.
Jewish cemetery on Deichbruchstrasse Hemelingen  / Hastedt
Deichbruchstrasse
53 ° 3 ′ 58 ″ N, 8 ° 51 ′ 53 ″ E 		1796 until today ~ 1 ha Jewish chapel Cemetery in the middle of a block, therefore hardly visible, limited opening times. →  Article
Hastedt cemetery Hemelingen  / Hastedt
Alter Postweg 24
53 ° 3 ′ 54 ″ N, 8 ° 52 ′ 1 ″ E 		1900 3 ha urban chapel Many old tombstones with damage are due to the Second World War, the chapel was destroyed. Cemetery plan
Osterholz cemetery Osterholz
Steinmetzenweg
Osterholzer Heerstraße
53 ° 3 ′ 56 ″ N, 8 ° 55 ′ 14 ″ E 		1920 79.5 ha urban Chapel, administration Park / lawn cemetery with many war graves from the Second World War (soldiers, bomb victims, prisoners), older tombs from around 1920, a few of them also figurative. →  Article . Cemetery plan
Sebaldsbrück cemetery Hemelingen / Sebaldsbrück
Sebaldsbrücker Heerstraße
(entrance next to house no. 121)
53 ° 3 ′ 38 ″ N, 8 ° 53 ′ 23 ″ E 		1893 Private no The operator is the association for the funeral home in Sebaldsbrück from March 21, 1983, the only privately operated cemetery in Bremen.
Hemelingen cemetery Hemelingen
Marschstrasse 34
53 ° 2 ′ 44 ″ N, 8 ° 53 ′ 29 ″ E 		1904 4.5 ha urban chapel No war graves. Cemetery plan
Arbergen cemetery Hemelingen  / Arbergen
Arberger Heerstrasse 77
53 ° 2 ′ 17 ″ N, 8 ° 55 ′ 2 ″ E 		before 1800 ~ 2 ha evangelical Church of St. John Cemetery of the Protestant parish of St. Johannis Arbergen .
Mahndorf cemetery Hemelingen  / Mahndorf
Mahndorfer Deich 28
53 ° 1 ′ 55 ″ N, 8 ° 56 ′ 52 ″ E 		1930 3.5 ha urban chapel Cenotaph for the fallen of both world wars.
Left the Weser
Seehausen cemetery Seehausen
Seehauser Landstrasse 166
53 ° 6 ′ 39 ″ N, 8 ° 42 ′ 28 ″ E 		? evang.-luth. St. Jacobi Church Lutheran cemetery Parish of St. Jacobi Seehausen.
Rablinghausen cemetery Woltmershausen  / Rablinghausen
Rablinghauser Deich 4
53 ° 5 ′ 30 ″ N, 8 ° 45 ′ 17 ″ E 		before 1800 ~ 2 ha evangelical church Cemetery of the Protestant parish Rablinghausen, some gravestones from the 18th century near the church.
Woltmershausen cemetery Woltmershausen
Woltmershauser Strasse 476
53 ° 5 ′ 11 ″ N, 8 ° 45 ′ 39 ″ E 		1890 3.2 ha urban chapel Brick-Gothic chapel with organ, no art-historically significant gravestones, former caretaker's house from 1948 in bungalow style .
Cemetery of the Church of St. George , Kirchhuchting Huchting  / Kirchhuchting
Kirchhuchtinger Landstrasse 24
53 ° 3 ′ 4 ″ N, 8 ° 44 ′ 29 ″ E 		13th century under 1 ha evangelical St. George Church Small cemetery of the ev. St. Georgs parish Huchting right around the church.
Huchting cemetery Huchting  / Kirchhuchting
Kirchhuchtinger Landstrasse 208
53 ° 2 ′ 15 ″ N, 8 ° 43 ′ 46 ″ E 		1934 7.1 ha urban chapel Cemetery plan
Huchting-Stuhr cemetery Huchting  / Kirchhuchting
Kirchhuchtinger Landstrasse 208
53 ° 2 ′ 15 ″ N, 8 ° 43 ′ 46 ″ E 		1985-1990 3 ha urban Chapel in the Moordeich cemetery in Stuhr Expansion of the Huchtinger cemetery together with the Moordeich cemetery in Stuhr in Lower Saxony.
Buntentor cemetery Neustadt  / Buntentor
Buntentorsteinweg 67/69
53 ° 3 ′ 55 ″ N, 8 ° 48 ′ 11 ″ E 		around 1820 3.1 ha urban chapel Lawn cemetery, grave of city architect Johann Georg Poppe (1769–1826).
Huckelriede cemetery Neustadt  / Huckelriede
Werderhöhe habenhauser
Landstrasse
53 ° 3 ′ 12 ″ N, 8 ° 49 ′ 54 ″ E 		1956 27.1 ha urban Chapel and municipal crematorium Park / lawn cemetery, no war graves, personalities: Gerhard Müller-Menckens . Cemetery plan
Arsten cemetery Obervieland / Arsten
In der Tränke 24
53 ° 1 ′ 54 ″ N, 8 ° 51 ′ 6 ″ E 		? evangelical Church of St. John + chapel Cemetery of the Protestant community Arsten-habenhausen.

Cemeteries that are no longer occupied

graveyard District, district, street
and location		 Opening – closing Denomination Chapel u. a. Comments, website (s), cemetery plans
Vegesack old cemetery Vegesack
Kirchheide
53 ° 10 ′ 25 ″ N, 8 ° 37 ′ 15 ″ E 		1820-1876 evang. (uniert) Former old Vegesack cemetery at the Vegesack city church , later relocation of some graves to the new Vegesack cemetery, converted into a park in 1905, few gravestones, including those of Albrecht Wilhelm Roth and August Christian Wilmanns , have been preserved, cenotaphs: Franco-German War of 1870/71 and First World War (established in 1925) with the names of the fallen. [3]
Lesum old cemetery Burglesum / Lesum
Hindenburgstrasse
53 ° 10 ′ 4 ″ N, 8 ° 41 ′ 26 ″ E 		11th century - 1882 evang.-ref. Lesum Church Old Lesum cemetery at Lesum Church, no longer used since the middle of the 19th century, many historical gravestones have been preserved.
Graves at the Emmaus Church Gröpelingen  / Oslebshausen
Adelenstrasse
53 ° 7 ′ 29 ″ N, 8 ° 44 ′ 44 ″ E 		1934–1965
(data based on information from the two graves) 		evang.-luth. Emmaus Church At the Emmaus Church of the Diakonissenhaus there are today two graves: that of Johann Ludwig Schrage (* April 5, 1843; † June 13, 1934; was President of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce in 1904 ; small granite tablet in the entrance gate) and that of Constantin Frick and his friends Mrs. Clara (tombstone).
Gravestones at St. Andrew's Church Gröpelingen  / Gröpelingen
Danziger Strasse 20–22

53 ° 6 ′ 58 "N, 8 ° 45 ′ 20" E

before 1650 to around 1900
(based on the architectural style of the youngest and oldest tombstone) 		evang.-luth. Andreas Church On the outer wall of the St. Andrew's Church stand or hang on the wall five z. T. damaged tombstones and tombstones. They come from the church cemetery of the previous building that was destroyed in the Second World War.
Graves at the Waller Church Walle  / Walle
Lange Reihe
53 ° 6 ′ 12 ″ N, 8 ° 46 ′ 36 ″ E 		before 1646 to about 1900
(based on the architectural style of the youngest and date of the oldest tombstone) 		evang.-luth. Waller Church At the Waller Church there are five gravestones that were badly damaged in the Second World War. A tombstone with Gothic ornaments had a cross, common from around 1870 to 1900. The largest stone probably from around 1850. The year 1680 can be read on one of the three even older tombstones. In the church tower is a recessed grave slab from 1646.
Stephanikirchhof Old town
Stephanikirchhof
53 ° 4 ′ 52 ″ N, 8 ° 47 ′ 40 ″ E 		? evang.-luth. St. Stephen's Church There used to be a cemetery around the Stephanikirche , of which very few tombstones and tombstones have survived today. On the south side of the main tower there is a recessed, well-preserved grave slab of Nikolaus Kiesselbach, pastor of St. Stephani, 1797–1816 .
Graves in the cathedral Old town
Bremen Cathedral
53 ° 4 ′ 32 ″ N, 8 ° 48 ′ 32 ″ E 		until around 1800 evang.-luth. Bremen Cathedral Inside the nave there are almost 90 graves of bishops, archbishops and other influential church figures. The final resting place of Adolph Freiherr Knigge is also here.
Cemetery at the cathedral Old town
Bremen Cathedral
53 ° 4 ′ 31 ″ N, 8 ° 48 ′ 32 ″ E 		until about 1840 evang.-luth. Bremen Cathedral In the courtyard of the Bremen Cathedral and the former monastery there are some gravestones and tombstones. Most of them are former pastors of the cathedral.

Then there are the cemeteries that no longer exist:

Already at the beginning of the planning of the Riensberg and Waller cemeteries it was decided to close these cemeteries. Some of the historical tombstones and tombstones of these cemeteries were later set up again in the Osterholz cemetery , which was newly established at the time , or rebuilt in the foyer of the chapel. There were also graves of Bremen personalities such as B. by the former mayor Johann Smidt or by the astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers in the Riensberg cemetery .

See also

swell

  • Thomas Walbröhl: Cemeteries in Transition . In: Weser-Kurier of January 9, 2016, p. 10.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.aknds.de/1432.html

Web links

Commons : Friedhöfe in der Stadt Bremen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Mausoleums in the state of Bremen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files