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Tree burial ground opened in Dechsendorf

Stand: 22.04.2025

The trend towards maintenance-free graves is growing. The field with nine different tree species comprises a total of 68 graves.

Das Ende März 2025 neu eröffnete Feld auf dem Dechsendorfer Friedhof.The city of Erlangen has opened a tree burial ground at the Dechsendorf cemetery (photo: registry office). The registry office responsible for the cemetery is thus responding to the trend towards maintenance-free graves that has been evident for years.

While the number of urn burials in 2017 was still 69 percent, the figure had already risen to over 80 percent by 2024. Half of the burials took place in maintenance-free graves, where the relatives do not have to take care of the grave.

Erlangen's cemeteries offer a wide variety of maintenance-free graves: burials are possible

  • in a raised bed
  • in the orchard meadow
  • in a columbarium
  • as anonymous burials or
  • as tree burials.

There are already tree burial plots at six of the ten municipal cemeteries. The demand for tree burials is steadily increasing. For many people, it is a beautiful idea that the roots of a tree are nourished by the ashes of the deceased and that these live on in the tree.

Plaques with names

The new field opened at the end of March at the Dechsendorf cemetery with nine different tree species comprises a total of 68 grave spaces. The relatives can choose a tree. As grave decorations, candles or flowers cannot be placed under the trees, there are steles at the edge of the grave field. The names are placed there on leaf-shaped plaques and there is the possibility of placing grave decorations or flowers.

All about the funeral

Leistung mit Onlineverfahren
Service, Online service, Grave letter, Grave purchase, Grave rights, Grave certificate

Funeral facilities; construction and maintenance

The municipalities are obliged to establish and maintain the necessary burial facilities, in particular cemeteries and mortuaries.

Leistung mit Onlineverfahren
Service, Online service

Cemetery and burial fees; payment

The municipalities charge fees for the use of their burial facilities on the basis of cemetery fee statutes.
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Service, Online service, Cemetery

Gravestone; application for a permit

Municipalities can stipulate an approval requirement for gravestones in their cemetery statutes.
Leistung mit Onlineverfahren
Service, Online service, Application for transfer of the right to use a burial space, Application for transfer of the right of use of a gravesite, Application for extension of the right of use of a gravesite, Right to use a grave, Gravesites, Grave site

Grave space; application for a right of use

When allocating a grave site in a municipal cemetery, the municipality grants the citizen a temporary right of use subject to a fee.

Funeral and cemetery services department

Anschrift

Michael-Vogel-Straße 4
91052 Erlangen

Öffnungszeiten

jetzt geschlossen
Montag: 08:00 - 12:00 Uhr und 14:00 - 16:00 Uhr
Dienstag: 08:00 - 12:00 Uhr
Mittwoch: 08:00 - 12:00 Uhr
Donnerstag: 08:00 - 12:00 Uhr
Freitag: 08:00 - 12:00 Uhr

Telephone availability:

Monday: 08:00 - 12:00 and 14:00 - 16:00

Tuesday: 08:00 - 12:00

Wednesday: 08:00 - 12:00

Thursday: 08:00 - 12:00

Friday: 08:00 - 12:00

Cemetery opening hours:

Period April 1 - September 30 from 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Period October 1 - November 2 from 7:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Period November 3 - March 31 from 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.