Nordfriedhof (Munich)

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Aerial view of the Nordfriedhof from the south Aerial image of Nordfriedhof in Munich (view from the south).jpg
Aerial view of the Nordfriedhof from the south
Chapel (centre), mortuary (left) Nordfriedhof Aussegnungshalle.jpg
Chapel (centre), mortuary (left)
View of the cemetery buildings looking towards the burial ground, 1901 (from G A Horst, Die neuen Friedhof-Anlagen Munchens) Munchen,-Nordfriedhof-(1901).jpg
View of the cemetery buildings looking towards the burial ground, 1901 (from G A Horst, Die neuen Friedhof-Anlagen Münchens)
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Mourner on the monument of Julius Braeutigam (d. 1905) (electrotype by Fidel Binz, WMF, Geislingen Fidel Binz-Mutter Erde fec.jpg
Mourner on the monument of Julius Braeutigam (d. 1905) (electrotype by Fidel Binz, WMF, Geislingen

The Nordfriedhof ("Northern Cemetery"), with 34,000 burial plots, is one of the largest cemeteries in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It is situated in the suburb of Schwabing-Freimann. It was established by the former community of Schwabing in 1884. It is not to be confused with the Alter Nordfriedhof in Munich, which was set up only a short time previously within the then territory of the city of Munich.

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A station on the Munich U-Bahn is also called Nordfriedhof after the cemetery, and the surrounding area is also known locally as "Nordfriedhof" from the station.

The imposing cemetery buildings include a chapel, a mortuary and a burial wall, which was designed between 1896 and 1899 by the municipal architect Hans Grässel. In 1962 a columbarium was added to the north by the architect Eugen Jacoby.

The chapel is described, slightly altered, in Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice , when the sight of it precipitates a foreboding of death in the protagonist.

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48°10′30″N11°36′10″E / 48.175°N 11.602778°E / 48.175; 11.602778