Origins and development
The cemetery opened in 1908 as Linden’s main cemetery. Today it includes 803 war graves and the honorary graves of Kurt Schumacher and August Holweg.
Origins: Opened in 1908 as the main cemetery of the then independent city of Linden. The cemetery is in Ricklingen, at Göttinger Chaussee 250, 30459 Hannover. Its area is approximately 52 hectares.
Design and present-day character
A large park cemetery with historic and newer chapels, tree-grave fields, war graves, honorary and memorial graves, and “spaces of silence”.
Read this character description together with the development of Ricklingen City Cemetery: it identifies what gives the grounds their present identity without turning the cemetery into a purely historical attraction. A visit can focus on spatial structure and named orientation points while leaving individual graves undisturbed.
Connect the account with the grounds
The cemetery map contains 25 named places for Ricklingen City Cemetery. Among them are Entrance 2, New chapel, Site map 2. Use these names to relate the historical account to locations visible during a visit, without assuming that every historical feature has its own marker.
Continue the visit
The cemetery tour turns selected named points at Ricklingen City Cemetery into a practical visit outline. For access questions or information tied to present cemetery operations, contact State Capital Hanover, Municipal Cemeteries Division rather than drawing operational conclusions from the historical account.