Waldfriedhof

This is Munich's largest cemetery, opened in 1907, extended in the 1960s and is still in use, with over 60,000 burial plots. As the name "Wald" indicates, it's a woodland cemetery, with memorials and the funeral chapel semi-hidden in the trees rather than dominating a bare lawn. Those here include ace fighter pilot Hans von Ritter (1886-1917), Stepan Bandera (1909-59) whose status as a hero or right-wing terrorist changes with the Ukrainian political weather, Michael Ende (1929-95) author of The Neverending Story which never did end once film and TV got hold of it, Paul Heyse (1830-1914) winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, film director Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003), artist Franz Stuck (1863-1928), Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz (1849-1930) and playwright Frank Wedekind (1864-1918).

Address

Fürstenrieder Straße 288

Getting there

U-Bahn U6: Holzapfelkreuth

Hours

Closed · opens 8 am tomorrow

Weekly hours

Mon	8 am–7 pm
Tue	8 am–7 pm
Wed	8 am–7 pm
Thu	8 am–7 pm
Fri	8 am–7 pm
Sat	8 am–7 pm
Sun	8 am–7 pm

Website

muenchen.de (opens in a new tab)