List of cemeteries in Frankfurt am Main

This list of cemeteries in Frankfurt am Main describes the existing and former cemeteries in the city of Frankfurt am Main .

History of the Frankfurt cemeteries

The city of Frankfurt am Main has 37 existing cemeteries. In addition, there are the Jewish cemeteries and a large number of former cemeteries that are now used as green spaces or were built over.

In the city administration, the cemetery affairs department is responsible for the cemeteries as part of the Green Space Office.

List of existing cemeteries

image	Surname	District / location	size	Grave number	inauguration	annotation
	Bergen cemetery	Frankfurt-Bergen-Enkheim Marktstrasse 87b	0.7 ha	1,000	1825	0
	Berkersheim Cemetery	Frankfurt-Berkersheim Am Traubengarten 1	0.3 ha	300	1870	0
	New Bockenheim cemetery	Frankfurt-Bockenheim Ginheimer Landstrasse 97	6.1 ha	5250	1878	The cemetery was built on the site of the brewery owned by brewer Heinrich Karl Birk, which had been closed a few years earlier. The brewhouse from 1839 was converted into a mourning hall.
	Bonames Cemetery	Frankfurt-Bonames Im Storchenhain 24	3.5 ha	1,500	1871	0
	Bornheim cemetery	Frankfurt-Bornheim Dortelweiler Strasse 104	8.3 ha	10,000	1851	0
	Eckenheim cemetery	Frankfurt-Eckenheim Engelthaler Strasse 36	0.3 ha	500	1882	0
	Enkheim cemetery	Frankfurt-Enkheim Neuer Weg 56	3.4 ha	2,500	1900	0
	Eschersheim cemetery	Frankfurt-Eschersheim Nusszeil 13	0.9 ha	2,000	1874	0
	Fechenheim cemetery	Frankfurt-Fechenheim Steinäcker Strasse 13	6.4 ha	4,000	1854	0
0	Goldstein Forest Cemetery	Frankfurt-Goldstein Unterschweinstiegschneise 1	7.9 ha	4,000	May 18, 1950	0
	Griesheim cemetery	Frankfurt-Griesheim Waldschulstrasse 79	4.5 ha	3,300	1897	0
	Harheim Cemetery	Frankfurt-Harheim Korffstrasse 51	0.8 ha	600	1929	0
	Hausen cemetery	Frankfurt-Hausen Hausener Weg 61a	1.1 ha	540	1888	0
	Heddernheim cemetery	Frankfurt-Heddernheim In der Römerstadt 129	1.0 ha	1,000	1872	0
0	Kalbach cemetery	Frankfurt-Kalbach Am Hopfenbrunnen 8	1.0 ha	700	1909	0
	Nied cemetery	Frankfurt-Nied Oeserstraße 30	1.2 ha	700	1899	0
	Old Nieder-Erlenbach cemetery	Frankfurt-Nieder-Erlenbach Kapersburgstrasse 2c	0.5 ha	500	1874	0
	New Nieder-Erlenbach cemetery	Alt Erlenbach 80	0.5 ha	300	1997	0
	Nieder-Eschbach cemetery	Frankfurt-Nieder-Eschbach Tannenweg 3	2.5 ha	1,300	1870	0
0	Niederrad cemetery	Frankfurt-Niederrad Hahnstrasse 14	4.6 ha	4,100	1881	0
	Niederursel cemetery	Frankfurt-Niederursel Weißkirchener Weg 93	4.5 ha	1,500	1851	In 1850, a 1 Sol acre plot of land was acquired by the Count of Solz in exchange and the new cemetery was set up there. After a dispute between the two halves of the village, it was decided to build the cemetery wall from red stones from the Hohe Mark. The cemetery was inaugurated in 1851. After the Second World War , the cemetery was expanded considerably to the west and the new cemetery chapel was consecrated in 1956. Since the north-west town did not have its own cemetery, the dead there were also buried in Niederursel. In the early 1970s there was a new expansion, this time to the east.
	Main cemetery	Frankfurt-Nordend, Eckenheimer Landstrasse 194	70 ha	60,000	July 1, 1828	The monumental portal buildings, the garden architecture, grave monuments from 180 years as well as graves of numerous important personalities make the main cemetery an extremely worth seeing piece of Frankfurt.
0	Old Oberräder cemetery	Frankfurt-Oberrad Mathildenstrasse 56	0.9 ha	800	1876	0
	Forest cemetery Oberrad	Frankfurt-Oberrad Burgenlandweg 10	20.5 ha	7,000	December 12, 1914	0
	Praunheim cemetery	Frankfurt-Praunheim Haingrabenstrasse 32	3.6 ha	2,600	1840	0
	Preungesheim cemetery	Frankfurt-Preungesheim Alt-Preungesheim 30	0.6 ha	700	1860	0
0	Rödelheim cemetery	Frankfurt-Rödelheim Westerbacher Strasse 38e	1.1 ha	1,150	1879	0
	Südfriedhof	Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen Darmstädter Landstrasse 229	13 ha	12,400	1868	Park cemetery with numerous listed graves was created in 1868 to replace the old Sachsenhausen cemetery
0	Old Schwanheim cemetery	Frankfurt-Schwanheim Schwanheimer Ufer 300	1.6 ha	1,100	1899	0
	Heiligenstock Park Cemetery	Frankfurt-Seckbach Friedberger Landstrasse 647	17.4 ha	7,000	1992	The youngest Frankfurt cemetery serves as a relief for the Frankfurt main cemetery and has been prepared since 1996 to accept both Christian and Islamic believers in different burial fields
0	Sindlingen cemetery	Frankfurt-Sindlingen Farbenstrasse 104	3.6 ha	1,500	1912	0
	Kurmainzer Strasse cemetery	Frankfurt-Sossenheim Kurmainzer Strasse 70	2.4 ha	1,000	1889	0
	Sossenheim cemetery	Frankfurt-Sossenheim Siegener Strasse 54	4.5 ha	1,500	1890	0
	Höchst cemetery	Frankfurt-Unterliederbach Sossenheimer Weg 75	16.8 ha	9,200	1925	After the old cemeteries of the core town of Höchst and its districts were occupied in the early 1920s, the new central cemetery was built in Unterliederbach on Sossenheimer Chaussee. The cemetery was planned by city architect Paul Wempe .
	Westhausen cemetery	Frankfurt-Westhausen Kollwitzstrasse 27	22.2 ha	11,370	May 18, 1952	The cemetery includes the Cimitero di Guerra Italiano, one of four cemeteries in Germany for Italians who died in World War II. The mourning hall, designed in 1960 by sculptor Otto Herbert Hajek and architect Günter Bock , with an adjacent, 75-meter-long reinforced concrete wall is a listed building and sparked heated public debates.
0	Zeilsheim cemetery	Frankfurt-Zeilsheim Welschgrabenstrasse 20	4.6 ha	2,300	1912	0

List of former / closed cemeteries

image	Surname	District / location	size	Grave number	inauguration	closure	annotation
	Old Bockenheim cemetery	Frankfurt-Bockenheim at the corner of Solmsstrasse and Ohmstrasse			1825	1898	This cemetery between Solmsstrasse and Ohmstrasse was laid out in 1825, expanded in 1871 and used until 1898. It was the replacement location for the cemetery at the St. Jakobskirche on the church square. Today the area is used as a green area.
0	Bonames old cemetery	Frankfurt-Bonames	0	0	1607	1871	The old cemetery opened in 1607 was closed in 1871. A baroque obelisk in the new cemetery is the collective grave site for all the remains of the old cemetery (reburied in 1905)
	Churchyard of the Emmauskirche	Frankfurt-Eschersheim	0	0	0	0	15 tombstones are still preserved and placed on the wall of the churchyard.
	Churchyard at the Justinuskirche	Frankfurt-Höchst Badstubengasse	0	0	middle Ages	1810	Since the Middle Ages, the churchyard at Justinuskirche has served as the cemetery for the town of Höchst. In 1810 the cemetery was abandoned. Only a Pietà on the north facade of the church, eight tombstones inside the church and a few weathered tombstones in the garden on the Main side remind of the cemetery.
	Lucius Cemetery	Frankfurt-Höchst Luciusstrasse / Brüningstrasse	0	0	1810	1885	The newly created cemetery outside the city was closed due to the growth of the city in 1885 and the Kurmainzer Friedhof was created. The cemetery was converted into Luciuspark in 1926. In 1975/1976 the Paul Ehrlich vocational school was built on the site.
	Niederursel cemetery	Frankfurt-Niederursel Next to the church	0	0	0	1851	Burials originally took place next to St. George's Church. In 1812 a field of 39 square rods from the Katharinenkloster next to the church was purchased for 150 guilders and the cemetery was expanded with it. Four tombstones from the old cemetery are built into the wall of today's Gustav Adolf Church.
	Peterskirchhof	Frankfurt city center Bleichstrasse	0.9 ha	0	1418	1828	From 1531 to 1811 the city's only Protestant cemetery, expanded several times. Numerous historical graves. Closed in 1828, only partially preserved today.
	Sachsenhausen old cemetery	Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen Brueckenstrasse	0.5 ha	0	1508	1868	Today green area, individual historical gravestones have been preserved
	Churchyard Marienkirche	Frankfurt-Seckbach Wilhelmshöher Strasse	0	0	0	0	0
	Unterliederbach cemetery	Frankfurt-Unterliederbach Wiesbadener Strasse	0.5 ha	90	1890	0	The cemetery near the Main-Taunus-Zentrum is no longer occupied.
	Church of the Resurrection (Frankfurt-Praunheim)	Frankfurt-Praunheim Graebestraße 8-10	0	0	0	1835	The new cemetery has been on Haingrabestrasse since 1840

List of Jewish cemeteries

image	Surname	District / location	size	Grave number	inauguration	closure	annotation
	Jewish cemetery Battonnstrasse	Frankfurt city center Battonnstrasse	1.2 ha	6,500	1272	1828	After the Jewish cemetery Heiliger Sand in Worms, this Jewish cemetery in Frankfurt am Main is the second oldest in Germany.
	Bergen old Jewish cemetery	Frankfurt-Bergen-Enkheim am White Tower (entrance on Ludwig Klemann-Weg)	17.31 ar	0	between 1660 and 1717	1924	The Jewish residents of Bergen were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Windecken after 1497 . Between 1660 and 1717 the own cemetery was laid out in Bergen and occupied until 1924. The dead of the Jewish community in Bad Vilbel also found their final resting place here until 1840.
	New Jewish cemetery in Bergen	Frankfurt-Bergen-Enkheim Vilbeler Landstrasse, outside the village	1.8 ar	10 tombstones are preserved	1924	1933	0
	Bockenheim Jewish cemetery	Frankfurt-Bockenheim Sophienstrasse	16.41 ar	300 tombstones have been preserved	1714	Nazi era	The dead of the Jewish community in Bockenheim were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Windecken until 1714 . The cemetery that was then created in Bockenheim next to today's Max Beckmann School behind a high wall is hidden from view.
	New Jewish cemetery	Frankfurt-Nordend, Eckenheimer Landstrasse 238	1.2 ha	6,500	1928		Right next to the main cemetery in Frankfurt is the new cemetery of the Jewish community.
0	Fechenheim / Offenbach Jewish cemetery	Frankfurt-Fechenheim near the Schultheissweiher	0	0	0	0
0	First Jewish cemetery in Griesheim	Frankfurt-Griesheim Stroofstraße / Häussermannstraße (approximate location)	0	The cemetery has not been preserved	around 1780	1867	The first cemetery near the Main was secured with a stone wall. In 1867 the " Chemische Fabrik Griesheim " bought the property to enlarge its factory. The "Chemische Fabrik Griesheim" agreed to leave the cemetery untouched for at least 30 years, but funerals ended.
0	Second Jewish cemetery in Griesheim	Frankfurt-Griesheim Stroofstraße / Häussermannstraße (approximate location)	0	The cemetery has not been preserved	1867	1882	The second cemetery was created right next to the factory.
0	Third Jewish cemetery in Griesheim	Frankfurt-Griesheim cemetery of the civil parish, Heinrich-Hardt-Strasse	0	0	1895	1939	After the secular congregation laid out today's cemetery in 1895/96, a part of this was also earmarked for the Jewish dead. The bones and tombstones from the first and second cemeteries were reburied in 1897. Only one funeral took place in this cemetery.
0	Old Jewish cemetery Heddernheim	Frankfurt-Heddernheim Alt-Heddernheim 9	0	The cemetery no longer exists	1376	1827	According to the Heddernheim Jewish Code of 1771, the cemetery was to be laid out outside the city. Nevertheless, the cemetery remained on the site of today's Alt-Heddernheim 9. After the cemetery was fully occupied in 1802, only a few burials could be carried out until 1827. Until the construction of the new cemetery, the cemeteries in Rödelheim and Niederursel were used temporarily. In 1843 the community sold the old cemetery property and some of the bones were reburied in the new cemetery. The tombstones were also moved.
	Old Jewish cemetery Heddernheim	Frankfurt-Heddernheim In the Roman city	14.93 ar	Approx. 275 gravestones have been preserved	1840	1937	The cemetery was used from 1840 until the Nazi era. The cemetery, which has been owned by the city since 1942, was severely damaged in World War II and restored in the 1960s.
	Old Jewish cemetery Niederursel	Frankfurt-Niederursel Oberurseler Weg	10.84 ar	No gravestones have been preserved	1720	1876	Since the first half of the 18th century there was a Jewish community in Niederursel, which in 1720 acquired a piece of land outside the village for its own cemetery. The cemetery was destroyed and cleared during the National Socialist era. Today the former cemetery is an open area surrounded by a fence. A reference stone ("Old Jewish Cemetery") reminds of the earlier use.
	New Jewish cemetery in Niederursel	Frankfurt-Niederursel Oberurseler Weg	8.18	No gravestones have been preserved	1876	Nazi era	The new Jewish cemetery is also a fenced-in open space with a marker after it was destroyed and cleared after 1933. Few tombstone fragments have survived.
	Old Jewish cemetery at Rat-Beil-Strasse	Frankfurt-Nordend Rat-Beil-Strasse 10	7.4 ha	approx. 30,000	1828	til today	The strictly classical portal of the cemetery was built according to plans by Fritz Rumpf . A large number of magnificent tombs and many graves of well-known Jewish personalities can be found here.
	Old Jewish cemetery Rödelheim	Frankfurt-Rödelheim Wolf-Heidenheim-Straße = Zentmarkweg	27.24 ar	20 tombstones are preserved	before 1740	19th century	The cemetery was cleared during the Nazi era. Today the area is used as a green area. A gravestone at the entrance reminds of Wolf Heidenheim (died 1832). The cemetery is a listed building.
	New Jewish cemetery in Rödelheim	Frankfurt-Rödelheim Westerbachstrasse	14.93 ar	No gravestones have been preserved	19th century	Nazi era	The cemetery was laid out in the 19th century as part of the general cemetery and cleared during the Nazi era. Today two memorial stones with the same inscription "Jewish cemetery of the former community Rödelheim" remind of the former Jewish cemetery.

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• City of Frankfurt am Main: The cemetery guide, March 2012
• Volker Rödel: Monument topography / The Frankfurt district cemeteries, ISBN 978-3-921606-61-2 , 2007
• Klaus Meier-Ude / Valentin Senger: Die Jewish Friedhöfe in Frankfurt, 3rd edition, 2004, ISBN 3-936065-15-2
• Manfred Gerner: Niederursel, Mittelursel: chronical records of a village, 1976, pp. 107–112

Web links

Commons : Cemeteries in Frankfurt am Main  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Frankfurt am Main (F) alemannia-judaica: Jewish cemeteries in Frankfurt
• Jewish community Frankfurt / cemeteries
• City of Frankfurt / Friedhöfe accessed on Feb. 24, 2020

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