All Saints' Day, All Souls' Day, Sunday of the Dead and Christmas Eve
8.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m.

Open on Sundays and public holidays
from 8.00 a.m.

The second largest cemetery in Wiesbaden was inaugurated in 1877. It was laid out on the hill between Nerostal and Adamstal. Its predecessor was the former "Totenhof" at Platter Straße 13; today known as the "Old Cemetery", which was deconsecrated and redesigned in the 1970s as a park for local recreation for the citizens of Wiesbaden. The woodland character of the northern cemetery today stems from the deliberate planting of trees when the cemetery was founded. However, there are still some old and tall oaks and beeches from the time before the cemetery was built.

However, due to the considerable length of time the cemetery has been in operation, the trees of life and cypresses that were planted around the graves have now reached a considerable size. With such a valuable stock of trees, this cemetery not only conveys an ideal image of an attractive burial landscape, but also attracts many visitors as a recreational area for the eye and mind. To date, over 87,000 people have found their final resting place in the North Cemetery.

Here, too, the attentive visitor and especially the connoisseur of Hessian regional history will encounter a large number of well-known and famous names. According to a decree, all deceased persons who had rendered outstanding services to the city of Wiesbaden or Nassau and later Hesse were preferably laid to rest here.

As a result, well-known musicians, poets, writers, sculptors and painters were buried here, as well as national soccer coach (world and European champion) Helmut Schön and jazz musician Volker Kriegel or the author of the religion-critical "Pfaffenspiegel", Otto von Corvin. The rather high density of burial sites from the Classicism period, when Wiesbaden, as a cosmopolitan spa town, was particularly favored by the Prussian imperial court, means that the North Cemetery also represents a who's who of the Wilhelmine era.

The same applies to the architectural and landscaping design, which, with its many tombs of high art-historical rank, has led to this cemetery being completely listed today. Sponsors are still being sought for such listed graves in the North Cemetery.

The Bernhard-von-Wiesen Foundation was set up in 2001 so that future generations will have to worry less about the preservation of historical grave monuments and has already had a number of grave monuments conserved and restored. However, there is still much to be done, and the support of everyone and civic commitment are needed.

Data
in existence since 1877
145,000 m² area

• Burial plot
• Burial plot for children
• Burial in the ground
• Crypt
• Urn grave
• Treehouse grave
• Urn chamber/urn wall
• Urn chamber