Forest cemetery Oberrad

The Oberrad forest cemetery is located in the Sachsenhausen district of Frankfurt and was laid out in 1914 south of the Oberrad district on the edge of the city forest and west of the Tellersiedlung .

Waldfriedhof Oberrad mourning hall

Islamic burial ground

Weeping Grove

Dutch field of honor

Military cemetery memorial

layout

With 20.5 hectares, the Oberrad forest cemetery is the third largest burial area in Frankfurt after the main cemetery and the Westhausen cemetery . There are around 7000 graves. It was created within a forest area of the Frankfurt city forest and is characterized by a relatively dense and well-tended tree population with horticultural grave areas.

In addition to the largely natural forest areas, there are also large clearings with war graves , which are characterized by the regular arrangement of the gravestones. The graves are mostly on both sides of elongated lawns. Two of the fields are arranged along an axis in the center of the cemetery. Other special features are a Muslim burial ground and several mourning groves. In the small forest areas, urns are buried anonymously in the immediate vicinity of a tree, similar to a natural burial .

At the cemetery entrance in Burgenlandweg 10 there is a parking lot, company building and a bus stop for lines 81 and 82. Directly behind it is the historic mourning hall . Widely ramified, mostly winding paths open up the eight tubs .

War casualty fields

The cemetery contains the graves of 756 Dutch war dead from World War II as well as 31 German soldiers from World War I and 2874 German soldiers from World War II.

On the Dutch Ehrenfeld (Dutch: erebegraafplaats) Dutch are buried in the Nazi until 1945 Germany in the period from 1940 as forced laborers died. It is located in the north of the cemetery and consists of 756 graves with white tombstones and a plaque with 242 names of victims who could not be buried in the field of honor. The bronze sculpture The Falling Man commemorates the victims with a Dutch inscription. The Ehrenfeld was inaugurated in 1956. At the initiative of the Dutch War Graves Foundation, seven Dutch fields of honor were created in Germany during this period.

The grave fields of the German dead are in the center of the cemetery. The wide area runs in an east-west direction and is characterized by a high cross. It consists of roughly hewn red sandstone, which is also used for the tombstones. Below the crucifix, an inscription commemorates the dead and urges peace.

Mourning hall

The funeral hall is designed in the style of classicism . The high slate roof is structured by dwelling houses that rest on columns. The chapel has 60 seats. The building is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act as is the fence and gate from the construction period.

Listed graves

The following graves are listed:

image	Won	Name (s)	year	Stonemason	description
	1 A 10	bird	1921	0	Neoclassical stele between corner posts made of artificial limestone
	1 A 11	Steinheimer Wolf	1921	JeanWolf	Neoclassical aedicula with fluted pilasters under a triangular limestone pediment. On the side wings, which end with volutes, there are oval writing fields in bronze frames. The central niche is decorated with a cross backed with roses.
	1 A 8-8a	Jung-Nees	1933	0	Simple stele on a trapezoidal floor plan made of artificial limestone
	1 B 14	Rib	1924	Karl Zorbach	Neoclassical stele with Baroque elements made of artificial stone shell limestone.
	1 B 5	Kuppenheim	1920	Gebr. Hasenbach	Neoclassical monument made of Kirchheim shell limestone in the form of an altar. The altar plate is carried by caryatids . There is a fully sculptural group of figures of the Pietà motif.
	1 B 8	Hofmann-Neumann	1929	Jean Schad	Three-part wall stele made of polished Bluberg granite. In the center is a bronze relief of a mourning female figure in front of an altar.
	1 E 13	Dear	0	0	Stele in neo-renaissance forms made of marble in reuse.
	1 G 1	Brighter	1915	Wagner brothers	Neoclassical aedicule-like stele with fluted pilasters, Ionic capital, rosette-adorned architrave and a meander frieze made of limestone leading to the roof.
	1 G 35	king	1921	Jos. Freudenberger	Neoclassical limestone stele framed by rounded pilasters with an Ionic capital. In the segment arch gable there are reliefs of a cross, surrounded by floral ornaments.
	1 H 4	Young	1918	Jakob Dietrich	Neoclassical aedicule of Ionic order over a stepped base. On both sides there are pillars with a limestone flower bowl.
	1 H 12	White	1921	0	Small aedicle-like limestone stele.
	1 K 6	Vault	1964	0	Georg Treser was a city councilor in Frankfurt. The tomb is a prism-shaped simple limestone stele.
	1 K 23	Dedecke-Rode	1919 (1953)	Jakob Dietrich (Heinrich Stiegmann)	Three-part wall stele made of shell limestone. In the segment arch gable there is a relief of a flower basket. Wreath reliefs can be seen on the side pillars. In 1953, two urns made from Krensheim shell limestone were added.
0	1 M 13	Paatz	1925	Karl Zorbach	Urn stele made of artificial stone shell limestone.
0	1 M 34	Beckert	1974	Hans Steinbrenner	Hans-Georg Beckert (1927–1981) was an architect. The tomb is an obelisk-like stele made of red artificial stone.
	1 O 1 UG	Wislicenus-Haag-Schütz	1950	0
	1 O 11	Müller-Wolfart	1929	Karl Zorbach
	2 A 12	Reinhard	1926	EC clapping
	2 A 20-22	Bold	1927	Gebr. Wagner
	2 B 8	passport	1930	Karl Zorbach
	2 F 3	chandler	1920	Jos. Freudenberger
	2 F 28	Krausgrill	1930	Ernst Unger
	2 G 16	Bender	1919	Jean Wolf
	2 H 26 basement	chandler	1933 (1949)	O. Ufert
0	2 H 14 from	Höfseß	1920	Kurt Hoppe
	2 Y 1	Grave complex of the Frankfurt sister association	1931	WFC Ohly
	2 Y 2	Ludwig	1924	F. Hofmeister
	2 J 6	Palm	1931	E. Zorbach
	2 J 12	Surla	1982	0
	2 J 13	Hansen	1932	Gebr. Wagner
	2 J 14	Barth	1934	Gebr. Wagner
	2 J 15	Auth	1937	Jos. Freudenberger
	2 J 16	Wochele-Heiner	1936	W. Schuessler
	2 J 17	Ruhl	1939	Th. Sigl
	2 J 27	Seum	1939	Jos. Freudenberger
	2 J 33 UG	Stemmer	1938	F. Hofmeister
	2 J 34	Bilhardt	1939	EC clapping
0	2 J 37	Seeger	1942	Martin Ricker
	2 J 44	Thinner	1940	0
	2 J 50	Minstrel	1948	Ludwig Jakob
	2 J 54	Hartoch-Weiss	1993	F. Hofmeister
	3-10	Kessler	1960	Hermann Reichert
	3-40	Trautmann	1942	Heinrich WA Wolf
	3-50	Young Ludwig	1934	H. Dammann + H. Rochlitz, Berlin-Grunewald
	3-107	Borck	1944	0
	4 - 443	Dannemeyer	1960	Heinz Moeritz
	4 - 446	Nerlich	1959	Alois Schneider
	4 - 447	Reinhardt	1960	Hammerschmidt, Niederselters
	4 - 448	John	1957	Heinz Moeritz
	4 - 449	Ganns	1958	Nau & Mahr
	4 - 450	Barley	1966	Joh. Ferd. Harm
	4 - 451	Idle Walke	1960	Nau & Mahr
	4 - 452	Bayer	1959	A. Martin Ricker
	4 - 453	Schmitt-Grass	1959	Heinrich Stiegemann
	4 - 454	Star nail	1959	Heinz Moeritz
	4 71 a	Senger	1997	Eva Renée Nele	Mantle sculpture on the grave of Valentin Senger