Cemeteries

High above Stuttgart in the Degerloch forest, the Waldfriedhof has been located on a hillside terrace in the south of the city since 1914. A historic funicular dating from 1929 connects the Südheimer Platz streetcar stop with the cemetery. At around 31 hectares, it is the largest cemetery in Stuttgart.

The grove of honor at the Waldfriedhof was designed by architect Paul Bonatz and built in 1923 to commemorate the 8,500 fallen soldiers of the First World War. Many victims of both world wars were buried here, where the large sculpture "Mother Homeland" by sculptor Fritz von Graevenitz also stands.

The forest cemetery offers numerous tree gravesites for urn burials in the immediate vicinity of a tree. These grave sections are to be preserved in their "natural" form; small plaques attached to the trees commemorate the deceased.

The forest cemetery has the most graves of honor in the city. Here you will find the resting places of well-known personalities such as Theodor Heuss and Elly Heuss-Knapp, Arnulf Klett, Carl Lautenschlager, Walter Hallstein and others.

Here you will find the contact persons for the  Waldfriedhof.

The main cemetery was opened in 1918 and now covers a total of 29 hectares, with numerous World War II memorials and special burial grounds for other burial cultures, such as Armenians and Muslims.

The main cemetery is a cemetery park. In order to maintain this character, the lawn in particular should dominate the appearance. One finds a large offer of new burial types, so-called alternative burial types such as lawn graves. Here, relatives can have a recumbent stone with the names of the deceased placed flush with the ground above the urns.

At the main cemetery, there is also the option of being buried in communal graves. Communal graves are uniformly designed burial plots that offer earth and urn spaces. Gardening care as well as care of the gravestone, the guarantee of traffic safety during the period of use is taken over by specialized companies of the stonemasonry and cemetery gardening trade.

Since 1985, deceased Muslims have been buried on request in special grave fields in Stuttgart Bad-Cannstatt at the main cemetery. In accordance with the Islamic burial rite, the gravesites are oriented toward Mecca. Jewish residents also find their final resting place at the main cemetery, in a separate section of the cemetery.

Here you will find the contact persons for the  main cemetery.

The Heslach cemetery is a popular place to visit, especially because of its burial chapel of the von Benckendorffs. The mausoleum was built according to the designs of the court architect Salucci in the form of a Greek round temple with a dome and has a portrait of the deceased created by sculptor Dannecker.

Not far from the Liederhalle is one of Stuttgart's oldest burial grounds. The Hoppenlauf cemetery was laid out in 1626 and has been a cultural monument since 1986. No burials have taken place here since 1880. The 1,600 remaining grave monuments show a remarkable cross-section of cemetery culture in Stuttgart from the late Baroque period to the end of the 19th century.

Around 70,000 people are buried in the approximately 2.8-hectare cemetery. It is also home to the first Jewish cemetery in Baden-Württemberg, which was integrated into the city cemetery. The graves of many well-known personalities such as the writers Wilhelm Hauff, Daniel Schubart and Gustav Schwab can also be found here.