List of cemeteries in Kassel

The list of cemeteries in Kassel gives an overview of cemeteries and burial places in the city of Kassel in Hesse . There are no municipal cemeteries in Kassel, which is a specialty in the Federal Republic of Germany. The legal entity of the 15 non-Jewish cemeteries and the war grave fields in Niederzwehren is the General Association of Evangelical Churches in Kassel. There are also two Jewish cemeteries, a preserved historical cemetery, an art project as a burial place and several war cemeteries. There were certainly other burial sites in Kassel, so there are other Jewish cemeteries, but they are no longer preserved and the exact locations are now unknown.

Cemeteries run by the Association of Evangelical Churches in Kassel

These cemeteries are supported by the General Association of Evangelical Churches in Kassel and looked after by the cemetery administration. All persons who were living in Kassel at the time of their death can be buried in these cemeteries regardless of their denomination.

designation	Borough	Address and location	Opening / closing	description	image
Main cemetery	North Holland	Tannenheckerweg 6	1843	With an area of ​​around 40 hectares, the main cemetery is Kassel's largest cemetery. Most of the victims of the bombing raids on Kassel were buried here on a large cemetery. The crematorium is connected to the main cemetery. There is also a military cemetery on the site of the main cemetery. It was opened on April 14, 1860. Larger war cemeteries from the First World War for German soldiers and Russian prisoners of war are located here. For a long time only deceased soldiers and their relatives were buried here.
Bettenhausen cemetery	Bettenhausen	Fasanenweg 1/3/9	1883	The Bettenhäuser Friedhof was built opposite the former Jewish cemetery (now the old Jewish cemetery).
Harleshausen cemetery	Harleshausen	Wegmannstrasse 46	1911	The old cemetery chapel, which has been restored and used for events e.g. B. mourning coffee is used. The new cemetery chapel was inaugurated in 1980.
Kirchditmold cemetery	Kirchditmold	To the Berggarten 11	1860	The cemetery was built on a limestone ridge below the church. The round, slate-covered cemetery chapel is a listed building.
Niederzwehren cemetery	Niederzwehren	Waiting hill 5	1850	The cemetery chapel was donated by the Credé family of industrialists at the beginning of the 20th century.
North Cemetery	Fasanenhof	At the Felsenkeller 31	1984	The north cemetery is the youngest of the Kassel cemeteries and was built on the other district cemeteries due to a lack of space.
Nordshausen cemetery	Nordshausen	Grubenrain 18	Laid out between 1880 and 1890.	One of the smallest cemeteries in Kassel.
Oberzwehren cemetery	Oberzwehren	Rengershäuser Str. 2 A	1889	One of the smallest cemeteries in Kassel.
Rothenditmold cemetery	Rothenditmold	Gelnhäuser Strasse 1	1871	Opposite the cemetery chapel, which was rebuilt after the Second World War, around 1,600 bomb victims are buried.
Wahlershausen cemetery	Bad Wilhelmshöhe	Rammelsbergstrasse 16	1865	The cemetery of the former independent municipality Wahlershausen was built on the southern slope of the Rammelsberg. The cemetery chapel is almost at the highest point of the cemetery.
Waldau cemetery	Waldau	Nürnberger Strasse 246	1880	The old cemetery chapel was built in 1900 and used until 1991. It was torn down and replaced by a new building in the same year.
Wehlheiden cemetery	Wehlheiden	Friedenstrasse 55	1833	The Wehlheiden cemetery is the second largest cemetery in Kassel after the main cemetery. It is divided into two halves by Sternbergstrasse. The southern part is the so-called new cemetery. It was put into operation in 1833 and then expanded several times. No opening year is known of the half-timbered chapel. At the northern entrance there is a large, broad sandstone with the inscription: "This church field was laid out under the early Greben Nicolaus Kersten and inaugurated by the pastor Gottfried Fenner on April 3rd, 1833"
West Cemetery	Süsterfeld-Helleböhn	Heinrich-Schütz-Allee 211	1970	Muslim burials are also carried out in the Westfriedhof. There is a burial ground facing Mecca and a room for the ritual washing of the dead.
Wolfsanger cemetery	Wolfsanger / hare hedge	Wolfsgraben 23	1858	The Wolfsanger cemetery was created above the old town center. Due to the terrain, it consists of two terraces. Both parts of the cemetery are connected by a ramp. The lower part represents the older part of the cemetery, while the upper part is the new part, on which the cemetery chapel made of sandstone quarries is also located.

Jewish cemeteries

designation	Borough	Address and location	Opening / closing	description	image
Old Jewish Cemetery	Bettenhausen	Fasanenweg	around 1630/1933 (spouses were still buried later, however)	→ Main article : Kassel Jewish Cemetery
New Jewish cemetery	Bettenhausen	Fasanenweg	1932	→ Main article : Kassel Jewish Cemetery

Mulang cemetery

designation	Borough	Address and location	Opening / closing	description	image
Mulang cemetery	Bad Wilhelmshöhe	Schlossteichstraße / corner of Mulangstraße	From 1817 (first burial)	The Mulang cemetery is one of the smallest in Kassel. The construction of the cemetery was initiated by Elector Wilhelm I of Hessen-Kassel . The first burial probably took place in 1817. Initially, the cemetery was reserved for the deceased servants of the Princely Court. Later, mainly employees of the palace and park administration were buried here. After Wilhelmshöhe was incorporated into Kassel in 1928, the private cemetery was allowed to continue to operate, but was only reserved for the deceased citizens of Wilhelmshöhe. This rule was later relaxed. There are currently 78 graves in the cemetery, eight of which have no names. Those buried in the Mulang include Hermann Schektiven , Carl Steinhofer and Paul Dierichs .

Artist necropolis

The artist necropolis is a project initiated by the documenta artist Harry Kramer . At the invitation of the Künstler-Nekropole-Stiftung, documenta artists are asked to design their tomb and to undertake in a will that their urn will be buried there. The sponsor is the Artists Necropolis Foundation and thus the city of Kassel.

designation	Borough	Address and location	Opening / closing	description	image
Artist necropolis	Harleshausen / Habichtswald Nature Park	(Extension of Ahnatalstraße)	From 1992	→ Main article : Artist necropolis

Old town cemetery

The old town cemetery is a preserved historical cemetery and is maintained by the garden and environment office of the city of Kassel.

designation	Borough	Address and location	Opening / closing	description	image
Old town cemetery	center	Lutherplatz	Proven from 1564/1843	→ Main article : Old Town Cemetery

Niederzwehren Cemetery

The Niederzwehren Cemetery is a military cemetery built and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) .

designation	Borough	Address and location	Opening / closing	description	image
Niederzwehren Cemetery	Niederzwehren	At the Keilsberg	1915 /	→ Main article : Niederzwehren Cemetery

Russian cemetery Niederzwehren

The Russian cemetery Niederzwehren is a military cemetery managed by the Kassel cemetery administration .

designation	Borough	Address and location	Opening / closing	description	image
Russian cemetery Niederzwehren	Niederzwehren	At the Keilsberg		Russian prisoners of war were anonymously buried in the park-like grounds in 1843, with a Russian Orthodox cross commemorating them.

Web links

Commons : Friedhöfe in Kassel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Information from the city of Kassel on cemeteries

Individual evidence

1. ^ Church & Faith - Cemeteries. City of Kassel, accessed March 30, 2017 . 
2. ^ Homepage of the cemetery administration. Kassel Cemetery Administration, accessed on March 31, 2017 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} story. Kassel Cemetery Administration, accessed on March 31, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Kassel: The smallest cemetery in Kassel can be found on the Mulang - Bad Wilhelmshöhe. In: hna.de. June 15, 2016, accessed September 12, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Russian cemetery on sovietische-memoriale.de

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