Nordfriedhof
Northern Cemetery
In mid-19th century the city's only cemetery was the Southern in Ludwigvorstadt. It was getting full so a north cemetery was opened in 1868 in Maxvorstadt - and was obviously too small for the burgeoning city. A further north cemetery was created here in 1884. Among the 34,000 interred are singer-actor "Jopi" Heesters, Ernst Mach who gives his name to a measure of supersonic speed, and Oswald Spengler who predicted the collapse of Western civilisation from 2000 AD. It has an impressive funeral chapel and morgue, which figure in Thomas Mann's novel Death in Venice. The "grove of honour" holds 2099 victims of the World War II Allied air raids.
- Address
- Ungererstraße 130
- Getting there
- U-Bahn U6: Nordfriedhof
- Hours
- Closed · opens 8 am
Weekly hours
Mon 8 am–8 pm Tue 8 am–8 pm Wed 8 am–8 pm Thu 8 am–8 pm Fri 8 am–8 pm Sat 8 am–8 pm Sun 8 am–8 pm - Price
- Free
Listing from Wikivoyage: Munich/North, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Updated 28 Sept 2026. Something wrong? Tell us.