Deaths

The municipalities and district offices must ensure that the provisions of Bavarian burial law are complied with. They can issue the necessary orders in individual cases.

As a rule, the bodies and ashes of deceased persons must be buried in cemeteries. Permission for burial outside a cemetery may be requested in exceptional cases.

The death certificate is issued by the doctor who diagnoses the death and carries out the post-mortem examination. It serves as the basis for registering the death and must be submitted to the registry office.

The death of a person must be reported to the registry office with jurisdiction over the area where the person died. Funeral homes, hospitals, nursing homes, and other facilities are required to report such deaths.

A corpse passport is required for repatriations within Germany or abroad if the country to which the body is to be repatriated or a country touched during the journey requires a corpse passport.

You can commission a funeral home to transport a body. Such companies have the appropriate vehicles for this purpose.