Available plan information
The official site plan for Melaten Cemetery is directly available. Open the official plan. This plan information applies to Melaten Cemetery; use it together with the named points below rather than as a substitute for an individual grave reference.
A selection from the named places on the cemetery map
- Entrance
- St Mary Magdalene and Lazarus
- Site map
- Clarenbach/Fliesteden memorial
- Columbarium in the former funeral chapel
- Geisselstraße bus stop
- Parking
- Toilet and drinking water
- Water point
- Temporary funeral chapel
- Burial gardens sign
- Memorial to bombing victims from a wedding party
- Memorial to the fallen of the Austro-Prussian War
- Melaten
- Toilet
- Funeral chapel
- Napoleon Stone
- High cross
- Melatengürtel
- Grim Reaper memorial
- Memorial to the fallen of the Franco-Prussian War
- Geisselstraße
- Johann Christoph Winters
- Graves of victims of war and tyranny
The list shows 24 functionally varied orientation points; the interactive map contains all 51 located objects for Melaten Cemetery. Begin with the entrance relevant to the journey, identify a nearby name from the selection, and move between named places only after checking their position on the map.
Use the map for a grave visit
The map of Melaten Cemetery does not provide a complete grave register. To find one grave, first obtain the section, row and grave number through grave search or from City of Cologne, Office for Landscape Management and Green Spaces. Next, locate that section on the linked plan and choose the closest named orientation point for the final approach.
What the markers do and do not mean
A marker on the Melaten Cemetery map identifies a named place at the cemetery. It does not by itself state that a building is open, that a route is step-free or that a grave lies nearby. For those needs, combine the marker with the access details, the grave reference and, where necessary, an enquiry to the cemetery administration.