389 hectare, 17 kilometers of roads, 24 bus stops and 36.000 trees. This is usually the dimension of a small town.
But instead, 1.4 million funerals took place here. How did the world’s largest park cemetery in Hamburg, Germany came to be and what happens in the future?
Sources:
[1] https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/schauplaetze/Friedhof-Ohlsdorf-Hamburgs-Parkfriedhof-im-Wandel-der-Zeit,friedhofohlsdorf174.html
[2] https://hamburgische-geschichten.de/2021/04/11/ohlsdorf-ein-friedhof-in-bewegten-zeiten/
[3] https://www.spiegel.de/reise/deutschland/hamburg-135-jahre-friedhof-ohlsdorf-a-839816.html
[4] https://blog.billiongraves.com/the-7-largest-cemeteries-in-the-world/
[5] https://www.friedhof-hamburg.de/en/start-en/ohlsdorf-cemetery/getting-there/
[6] https://www.mopo.de/hamburg/mitten-in-hamburg-das-groesste-mausoleum-des-nordens-verfaellt-37932236/
[7] https://www.friedhof-hamburg.de/die-friedhoefe/ohlsdorf/ohlsdorf-2050/
https://www.ohlsdorf-derpark.de/der-park/
https://www.bfn.de/praxisbeispiele/friedhofentwicklungskonzept-fuer-den-parkfriedhof-hamburg-ohlsdorf
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