Cemetery Ohlsdorf is the most impressive in size and known outside Hamburg necropolis. Once here, you can see not only the graves of prominent residents of the city, but also the various architectural works of famous artists. This place is considered to be the largest cemetery in the world, as well as the park. The area of ​​this unique place is about 391 hectares.

The first mention of the area Ohlsdorf recorded in historical documents, refers to 1303. But Hamburg she began to treat only in 1895, when the government was bought a land area of ​​126 hectares in the municipal cemetery for the device. His plan was created in the years 1875-1876 Anders Franz Meyer and Johann Wilhelm Cordes. The cemetery was built in the style of an English landscape park, where there are eight funerary chapels.

Before entering the Ohlsdorf is located office building in Neo-Baroque style. After the change of the director of the cemetery changed his approach to design. Otto Lina prefer geometric shapes, which are not only perfectly accustomed, and were popular until the 1930s. Above the established chapels, tombstones and mausoleums porticos worked Dammann, Marx, Barlach and other outstanding masters of architectural art.

The most famous work is the Ohlsdorf "Boat of Charon", dedicated to those who died in 1943, which accounted for a huge number of bombing of the city. At the cemetery is the mausoleum of 21, the largest of them is the one that is designed to honor the memory of the family von Schroeder.

For visitors Ohlsdorf is a museum, which showcases and there are special tours of the necropolis. The cemetery is considered valid, and burial is carried out now.