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• Note on the statistics of cremations:
  • 1999 was the last year for which figures were available.

• Number of crematoria: 126

• Crematoria situated at:
  • Aachen, Albstadt, Altenburg, Aschaffenburg, Augsburg
  • Baden-Baden, Bayreuth, Berlin (2), Bernburg, Bielefeld, Bochum, Brandenburg, Braubach, Braunschweig, Bremen, Bremerhaven
  • Celle, Chemnitz, Coburg, Cuxhaven
  • Darmstadt, Dessau, Diemelstadt, Döbeln, Dortmund, Dresden, Duisburg, Dusseldorf
  • Eisenach, Eisleben, Erfurt, Essen, Esslingen
  • Flensburg, Forst (Lausitz), Frankfurt, Frankfurt (Oder), Freiberg, Freiburg, Freidberg, Fürstenzell (opened in 2003)
  • Geislingen, Geißen, Gera, Göppingen, Görlitz, Gotha, Göttingen, Griefswald
  • Hagen, Halle (Saale), Hamburg, Hameln, Hamm, Hanau, Hannover, Heidelberg, Heibronn, Herzberg (opened in 2003), Hof
  • Jena
  • Karlsruhe, Kassel, Kempten, Kiel, Koblenz, Köln, Konstanz, Krefeld
  • Lahr, Landau, Leinfelden, Leipzig, Lindau, Lörrach, Lübeck, Ludwigsburg, Ludwigshafen, Lüneburg
  • Magdeburg, Mainz, Mannheim, Meissen, München
  • Neubrandenburg, Nordhausen, Nürnberg
  • Obertshauses (opened in 2003), Offenbach, Oldenburg, Osnabrück
  • Perleberg (opened in 2003), Pforzheim, Plauen, Pössneck, Potsdam
  • Quedlinburg
  • Regensburg, Reichenbach, Reutlingen, Rostock, Rutesheim (opened in 2003)
  • Saalfeld, Saarbrücken, Schmalkalden, Schweinfurt, Schwerin, Selb, Singen, Sonderhausen, Sonneberg, Stade, Stuttgart, Suhl
  • Traunstein, Tuttlingen
  • Ulm
  • Villingen-Schwenningen, Vilshofen (opened in 2003)
  • Weissenfels, Wetzlar, Weimar, Wiesbaden, Wilhelmshaven
  • Zittau, Zwickau

Statistics of Cremations

 

	Cremations	Total Deaths	% of Deaths
1999	338,469	844,112	40.10

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.