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24T14 Hamburg: who’s in Ohlsdorf cemetery?

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In the northern part of Hamburg lies Europe’s largest cemetery at over 400 hectares (almost 990 acres) with over a quarter-million graves and almost 1.5 million burials since 1877. I went in search for a couple of names and found a couple more, as well as some fresh air and a stretch of the legs after a lengthy day on trains from Trier.

Front gate of Ohlsdorf cemetery.
Artist Philipp Otto Runge, 1777-1810.
Artist Anita Rée, 1885-1933.
Actress Monica Bleibtreu, 1944-2009.
Physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (after whom the unit of frequency is named), 1857-1894.
Physicist Gustav Hertz, 1887-1986: Heinrich Hertz’s nephew; jointly awarded 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Koch and Schmidt families …
Teacher & environmentalist Hannelore Loki Schmidt (1919-2010), and her husband Helmut Schmidt (1918-2017) who served as chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982.
Eingänge sind Übergänge (Entrances are transitions)
Ohlsdorf cemetery

From Hamburg’s central station (Hauptbahnhof), a ride on either the U4 or S1 to Ohlsdorf brings visitors to the cemetery’s front gate.

Completed after 14 travel days: just over 121 km of walking, in 173649 steps (“Health” estimates).

I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 21 May 2024. This post composed with Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.