Westfriedhof (Munich)

West cemetery east side

Crucifixion group by Thomas Buscher

Family tomb of Soraya and the Esfandiarys

Memorial to the Bavarian Police

The Westfriedhof of the Bavarian capital Munich is located in the south of the Moosach district . The main entrance is at Baldurstrasse 28. It was laid out in 1898, and in 1902 the cemetery buildings by the architect Hans Grässel were completed. The Westfriedhof has around 40,000 grave sites. On the main avenue are the grave monuments, some of which were created by the Munich sculptor Heinrich Waderé .

See also

• List of personalities buried in Munich's Westfriedhof
• List of burial places of famous people

literature

• Lioba Betten - Thomas Multhaup: Die Münchner Friedhöfe - Guide to Places of Remembrance , MünchenVerlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-7630-4056-8 , pp. 46–53
• Erich Scheibmayr : Last home. Self-published, Munich 1985.
• Erich Scheibmayr: Who? When? Where?. 3 parts, self-published, Munich 1989–2002.

Web links

Commons : Westfriedhof München  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Westfriedhof on muenchen.de
• The Westfriedhof, Munich Wiki
• Graves of well-known personalities at the Westfriedhof

Individual evidence

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 16 ″  N , 11 ° 31 ′ 21 ″  E