Mülheimer Friedhof

The Mülheim Cemetery is a municipal cemetery in Cologne's altitude mountain directly to the Frankfurter Straße (also the Federal Highway 8). Despite its name, it does not lie in the neighboring district of Mülheim, but was at that time conceived as a burial place for the Mülheim population.

The now almost 20 hectares large cemetery occupies a roughly triangular area between the Frankfurter Straße, the Höhenberger ring and the motorway he was 4 Opened on September 30, 1904 for the then independent town Mülheim that their citizens before on two denominational cemeteries ( the old Catholic and the old Protestant cemetery ) buried. Originally, the new municipal cemetery should the two denominational cemeteries compete. For this reason, a separation according to the confession was also initially for series graves made: the right of the main path were graves for Catholics, to the left created for Protestants.

The Mülheim cemetery has, as usual for Cologne wholesale cemeteries, a park- like shape. The three-part gate construction with the brick buildings of the cemetery administration at the main entrance on the Frankfurt street dates from 1903 and is now a listed building.

Not to be confused is the Mülheim cemetery on the Frankfurt street with the new Mülheim Cemetery (also at the Arnold Cemetery Rather yard called ), which is located in the root home area and was not created until 1967.