Ohlsdorf Cemetery (Hamburg)
| park
Germany /
Schleswig-Holstein /
Norderstedt /
Hamburg /
Fuhlsbütteler Straße, 22337 Hamburg
World
/ Germany
/ Schleswig-Holstein
/ Norderstedt
World / Germany / Hamburg / Hamburg
park, cemetery
Ohlsdorf Cemetery, located in Hamburg's Ohlsdorf borough combines features of a cemetery as well as those of a park. It attracts about 2M visitors annually, especially during the Rhododendron bloom in early June.
It is the largest cemetery/park in the world and the second largest cemetery by area (966 acres, after Calverton National Cemetery, Long Island, New York/USA) as well as by total interred (1.4M, after the Wiener Zentralfriedhof in Vienna, Austria). It contains 256,000 burial sites, 12 chapels, 17 km of streets run through it, and there are 22 Bus stops throughout.
It is the largest cemetery/park in the world and the second largest cemetery by area (966 acres, after Calverton National Cemetery, Long Island, New York/USA) as well as by total interred (1.4M, after the Wiener Zentralfriedhof in Vienna, Austria). It contains 256,000 burial sites, 12 chapels, 17 km of streets run through it, and there are 22 Bus stops throughout.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohlsdorf_Cemetery
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 53°37'17"N 10°3'32"E
- Mass Grave of Victims of Bombing of Hamburg 1.1 km
- Passage over the Styx 1.2 km
- Öjendorfer Friedhof 7.8 km
- Wohlerspark 10 km
- Jewish Cemetery 11 km
- Cemetery 31 km
- SS Cap Arcona wreck site 70 km
- Bramfeld Lake 0.5 km
- Destiny 1.2 km
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