List of cemeteries in Bremerhaven
Map with all coordinates: The list of cemeteries in Bremerhaven shows all cemeteries in the city of Bremerhaven , sorted from north to south.
Cemeteries that are still in use
| Cemetery opening |
District, district location |
Denomination size |
Special features, graves |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Jewish cemetery 1768 |
Lehe / Schierholz Kreuzburger Str. Location |
Jewish |
 |
|
Spadener Höhe cemetery 1964 |
Lehe / Schierholz Hultschiner Str. Location |
urban 14.3 ha |
Crematorium (since 1990) since 2014, the Jewish cemetery is part of the city cemetery |
|
Lehe II cemetery 1850 |
Lehe / Klushof Apenrader Str. Location |
urban (?) | a large crypt, special tombs and personalities: crypt of the von Glan family , including Bernhard von Glahn, Jacobus Johannes van Ronzelen ; today burials only take place with special permits. |
|
Lehe I cemetery 1823 |
Lehe / Klushof Friedhofstrasse location |
urban (?) | three large tombs, special graves and personalities: Wilhelm Gerber (grave monument in the form of a defensive tower ), Melchior Schwoon (entrepreneur, 1809) , Georg Wilhelm Claussen ; today burials only take place with special permits. |
|
Lehe III cemetery 1878 |
Lehe / Buschkämpen Dwarsweg location |
urban 13.5 ha |
 |
|
Geestemünder Friedhof 1859 |
Geestemünde / Feldstrasse location |
ecclesiastical | Listed chapel (1930) |
|
Bremerhaven cemetery in Wulsdorf 1871 |
Wulsdorf / Dreibergen location |
urban 9.3 ha |
a chapel including the former crematorium (until 1990), a mausoleum, a large crypt. The system was planned under Wilhelm Benque , the chapel was built in 1887 by Louis Löschner (senior). Special burial places and personalities: Mausoleum Heinrich Ahlers , family tomb Sprickerhoff , grave plant family Seedorff , Family Eide screen , Friedrich Busse , Wilhelm Schuch man , Peter Rickmers , Hinrich Schmalfeldt , Waldemar Becke , Tomb of the victims of the Thomas catastrophe , Memorial of the Fallen First World War in |
|
Alt-Wulsdorf cemetery 1865 |
Wulsdorf / Kreuzackerstr. location |
Protestant, Dionysius Church (Wulsdorf) |
Adjacent cemeteries outside the city limits
Some burials of the Bremerhaven municipalities Weddewarden , Schiffdorferdamm and Surheide do not take place in the inner-city cemeteries, but in the following cemeteries in the Cuxhaven district:
| graveyard | Community location |
Denomination | Hints |
|---|---|---|---|
| Imsum / Weddewarden cemetery | Imsum location |
ecclesiastical | In the middle of the small cemetery is the Ochsenturm (Imsum) , the remainder of an old church. Grave of Gottfried Hilgerdenaar . |
| Schiffdorf cemetery |
Schiffdorf , Sellstedter Str. Location |
ecclesiastical | In the Bremerhaven districts of Schiffdorferdamm and Surheide |
Former cemeteries
- Former cemetery at the Dionysius Church in Lehe . Today there is only one preserved tombstone on the south side of the church. location
- Former cemetery around the Marienkirche Geestemünde. Today there are no more tombstones. Older paintings show a cemetery around the church. location
- Former cemetery at the Dionysius Church in Wulsdorf (oldest church building in Bremerhaven, built in the 11th century). There are old tombstones along the southern outer wall of the church, including one from before 1500. Location
Web links
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