Volksdorf cemetery

"Pillars of Encounter",
anonymous grave field (plan area Ma )

Chapel courtyard

War memorial

Gravestone for Ernst Rowohlt

The Volksdorf municipal cemetery (sometimes also the Volksdorf forest cemetery ) is a burial site in the Volksdorf district of Hamburg . It was administered by the Wandsbek district office from 1959 to 2012 and has been part of the municipal company "Hamburger Friedhöfe - public law institution" since the beginning of 2013, which also operates the Ohlsdorf and Öjendorf cemeteries .

history

The city of Hamburg began in 1950 a 14 ha large pine forest , they 1936. Hans Freiherr von Ohlendorff had bought to set up for a cemetery. First of all, an access road and a fence for 7 hectares of the site was built. After a year of construction, the 70-seat cemetery chapel was completed on the eastern edge in 1958; the first burial took place in January 1959.

The existing trees were largely preserved. The path network consists of an irregular grid with a circumferential path. At the chapel there is a small memorial for the fallen of the two world wars, in which it was deliberately not put up a list of individual names. The anonymous grave fields are designed as independent planted areas and receive a modern sculpture as decoration as soon as they are completely occupied.

Today the Volksdorf cemetery comprises around 14,900 graves on a total area of around 17 hectares.