Aerial view of the Nordfriedhof from the southChapel (centre), mortuary (left)View of the cemetery buildings looking towards the burial ground, 1901 (from G A Horst, Die neuen Friedhof-Anlagen Münchens)Mourner on the monument of Julius Braeutigam (d. 1905) (
electrotype by
Fidel Binz,
WMF,
Geislingen
The Nordfriedhof ("Northern Cemetery"), with 34,000 burial plots, is one of the largest cemeteries in
Munich,
Bavaria,
Germany. It is situated in the suburb of
Schwabing-Freimann. It was established by the former community of
Schwabing in 1884. It is not to be confused with the
Alter Nordfriedhof in Munich, which was set up only a short time previously within the then territory of the city of Munich.
A station on the
Munich U-Bahn is also called
Nordfriedhof after the cemetery, and the surrounding area is also known locally as "Nordfriedhof" from the station.
The imposing cemetery buildings include a chapel, a mortuary and a burial wall, which was designed between 1896 and 1899 by the municipal architect
Hans Grässel. In 1962 a
columbarium was added to the north by the architect
Eugen Jacoby.
The chapel is described, slightly altered, in
Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice, when the sight of it precipitates a foreboding of death in the protagonist.
Traudl Junge, secretary to Adolf Hitler, 1942-1945
A mass grave for 2,099 victims of aerial bombardment during
World War II has been converted to form a "grove of honour for air raid victims" (Ehrenhain für Luftkriegsopfer), with a monument by
Hans Wimmer.
Sources
Gretzschel, M., 1996: Historische Friedhöfe in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Das Reiselexikon. Munich: Callwey
ISBN3-7667-1233-0
Scheibmayr, E., 1985: Letzte Heimat. Persönlichkeiten in Münchner Friedhöfen 1784–1984 (1st edition). Munich: Edition Scheibmayr [1] Continued by: Wer? Wann? Wo? Persönlichkeiten in Münchner Friedhöfen. (Teil 1/3, Ergänzung zum Grundwerk und Fortschreibung bis 1989). Munich: Edition Scheibmayr 1989
ISBN3-9802211-1-3 Wer? Wann? Wo? Persönlichkeiten in Münchner Friedhöfen. (Teil 2/3, Ergänzung zum Grundwerk und Fortschreibung bis 1996). Munich: Edition Scheibmayr 1997
ISBN3-9802211-3-X Wer? Wann? Wo? Persönlichkeiten in Münchner Friedhöfen. (Teil 3/3, Ergänzung zum Grundwerk und Fortschreibung bis 2002). Munich: Edition Scheibmayr 2002
ISBN3-9802211-4-8
Aerial view of the Nordfriedhof from the southChapel (centre), mortuary (left)View of the cemetery buildings looking towards the burial ground, 1901 (from G A Horst, Die neuen Friedhof-Anlagen Münchens)Mourner on the monument of Julius Braeutigam (d. 1905) (
electrotype by
Fidel Binz,
WMF,
Geislingen
The Nordfriedhof ("Northern Cemetery"), with 34,000 burial plots, is one of the largest cemeteries in
Munich,
Bavaria,
Germany. It is situated in the suburb of
Schwabing-Freimann. It was established by the former community of
Schwabing in 1884. It is not to be confused with the
Alter Nordfriedhof in Munich, which was set up only a short time previously within the then territory of the city of Munich.
A station on the
Munich U-Bahn is also called
Nordfriedhof after the cemetery, and the surrounding area is also known locally as "Nordfriedhof" from the station.
The imposing cemetery buildings include a chapel, a mortuary and a burial wall, which was designed between 1896 and 1899 by the municipal architect
Hans Grässel. In 1962 a
columbarium was added to the north by the architect
Eugen Jacoby.
The chapel is described, slightly altered, in
Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice, when the sight of it precipitates a foreboding of death in the protagonist.
Traudl Junge, secretary to Adolf Hitler, 1942-1945
A mass grave for 2,099 victims of aerial bombardment during
World War II has been converted to form a "grove of honour for air raid victims" (Ehrenhain für Luftkriegsopfer), with a monument by
Hans Wimmer.
Sources
Gretzschel, M., 1996: Historische Friedhöfe in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Das Reiselexikon. Munich: Callwey
ISBN3-7667-1233-0
Scheibmayr, E., 1985: Letzte Heimat. Persönlichkeiten in Münchner Friedhöfen 1784–1984 (1st edition). Munich: Edition Scheibmayr [1] Continued by: Wer? Wann? Wo? Persönlichkeiten in Münchner Friedhöfen. (Teil 1/3, Ergänzung zum Grundwerk und Fortschreibung bis 1989). Munich: Edition Scheibmayr 1989
ISBN3-9802211-1-3 Wer? Wann? Wo? Persönlichkeiten in Münchner Friedhöfen. (Teil 2/3, Ergänzung zum Grundwerk und Fortschreibung bis 1996). Munich: Edition Scheibmayr 1997
ISBN3-9802211-3-X Wer? Wann? Wo? Persönlichkeiten in Münchner Friedhöfen. (Teil 3/3, Ergänzung zum Grundwerk und Fortschreibung bis 2002). Munich: Edition Scheibmayr 2002
ISBN3-9802211-4-8