Mülheim cemetery
The Mülheimer Friedhof is a municipal cemetery in the Höhenberg district of Cologne, directly on Frankfurter Straße (also Bundesstraße 8 ). Despite its name, it is not located in the neighboring district of Mülheim , but was designed as a burial place for the Mülheim population at the time.
The cemetery, which is now almost 20 hectares in size, occupies an almost triangular area between Frankfurter Straße, Höhenberger Ring and federal motorway 4 . It was opened on September 30, 1904 for the then still independent city of Mülheim, which previously buried its citizens in two denominational cemeteries (the old Catholic and the old Protestant cemetery ). Originally, the new communal cemetery was intended to compete with the two denominational cemeteries. For this reason, row graves were initially separated according to denomination: to the right of the main path, graves for Catholics were laid out , to the left for Protestants .
The Mülheimer Friedhof has, as is usual for large Cologne cemeteries, a park-like shape. The three-part gate construction with the brick building of the cemetery administration at the main entrance on Frankfurter Straße dates from 1903 and is now a listed building .
Not to be confused is the Mülheim cemetery to the new cemetery Mülheim how the cemetery Beautifully Rather court is called on Haslacher path that was laid out before the 1967th
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literature
- Günter Leitner: Friedhöfe in Köln - Mitten im Leben , pp. 228–232. Cologne 2003
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 51.6 ″ N , 7 ° 1 ′ 32 ″ E