Cemetery Ohlsdorf is the most impressive in size and known outside of Hamburg necropolis. Once here, you can see not only the graves of prominent citizens of this city, but also various architectural works of famous artists. This place is considered the world's largest cemetery, and a Park. The area of this unique place is about 391 ha.

The first mention of the locality Ohlsdorf, recorded in historical documents, refers to 1303. But, to Hamburg it became relevant only in 1895, when the government purchased the land area of 126 hectares for the device of the city necropolis. His plan was created in the years 1875-1876 Franz Anders Meyer and Johann Wilhelm Cordes. The cemetery was built in the style of an English landscape Park, where there are eight funeral chapels.

Before entering the Ohlsdorf located office building in neo-Baroque style. After the change of the Director of the cemetery has changed the approach to its design. Otto Lina preferred geometric shape, which not only took root, and were popular until 1930. Over established chapels, tombstones, porticos and mausoleums worked Dammann, Marx, Barlach and other outstanding masters of the art of architecture.

The most famous work of Alsdorf is "the Boat of Charon", dedicated to those who died in 1943, which had a huge number of bombings in the city. In the cemetery is 21 mausoleum, the largest of them is the one that is arranged in honor of the memory of the family von Schroeder.

For visitors Ohlsdorf is a Museum, where arranged and conducted special tours of the necropolis. The cemetery is considered valid, burial will be realized here and now.