germany

 

  • Note on the statistics of cremations:
    • 1999 was the last year for which figures were available.
  • Number of crematoria: 120
  • Crematoria situated at:
    • Aachen, Albstadt, Altenburg, Aschaffenburg, Augsburg
    • Baden-Baden, Bayreuth, Berlin (3, a new crematorium opened in 2000), Bernburg, Bielefeld, Bochum, Brandenburg, Braubach, Braunschweig, Bremen, Bremerhaven
    • Celle, Chemnitz, Coburg, Cuxhaven
    • Darmstadt, Dessau, Döbeln, Dortmund, Dresden, Duisburg, Dusseldorf
    • Eisenach, Eisleben, Erfurt, Essen, Esslingen
    • Flensburg, Forst (Lausitz), Frankfurt, Frankfurt (Oder), Freiberg, Freiburg, Freidberg
    • Geislingen, Geißen, Gera, Göppingen, Görlitz, Gotha, Göttingen, Griefswald
    • Hagen, Halle (Saale), Hamburg, Hameln (opened in 2000), Hamm (opened in 2000), Hannover, Heidelberg, Heibronn, Hof
    • Jena
    • Karlsruhe, Kassel, Kempten, Kiel, Koblenz, Köln, Konstanz, Krefeld
    • Leipzig, Lahr, Landau, Leinfelden, Lindau, Lörrach, Lübeck, Ludwigsburg, Ludwigshafen, Lüneburg (opened in 2000)
    • Magdeburg, Mainz, Mannheim, Meissen, München
    • Neubrandenburg, Nordhausen, Nürnberg
    • Offenbach, Oldenburg, Osnabrück
    • Pforzheim, Plauen, Pössneck, Potsdam
    • Quedlinburg
    • Regensburg, Reichenbach, Reutlingen, Rostock
    • Saalfeld, Saarbrücken, Schmalkalden, Schweinfurt, Schwerin, Selb, Singen, Sonderhausen, Sonneberg, Suhl, Stade (opened in 2000), Stuttgart
    • Traunstein (opened in 2000), Tuttlingen
    • Ulm
    • Villingen-Schwenningen
    • Weissenfels, Wetzlar, Weimar, Wiesbaden, Wilhelmshaven
    • Zittau, Zwickau
Cremation Organisation:
A national cremation society no longer exists in Germany. Upon reaching its targets, the society was dissolved and they are therefore not able to supply up-to-date Statistics of Cremations.