germany

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

• Number of crematoria: 140

• Crematoria situated at:
  • Aachen, Aalen, Albstadt, Altenburg, Aschaffenburg, Augsburg
  • Baden-Baden, Bayreuth, Berlin (2), Bernburg, Bielefeld, Bochum, Brandenburg, Braubach, Braunschweig, Bremen, Bremerhaven
  • Celle, Chemnitz, Coburg, Cottbus (opened in 2005), Cuxhaven
  • Darmstadt, Dessau, Diemelstadt, Döbeln, Dortmund, Dresden, Duisburg, Dusseldorf
  • Eberswalde, Eisenach, Eisleben, Erfurt, Essen, Esslingen
  • Flensburg, Forst (Lausitz), Frankfurt, Frankfurt (Oder), Freiberg, Freidburg, Fürstenzell
  • Geislingen, Geißen, Gera, Göppingen, Görlitz, Gotha, Göttingen, Griefswald, Gröbers
  • Hagen, Halle (Saale), Hamburg, Hameln, Hamm, Hanau, Hannover, Heidelberg, Heilbronn, Henningsdorf (opened in 2005), Hermeskeil (opened in 2005), Herzberg, Hof
  • Jena
  • Karlsruhe, Kassel, Kempten, Kiel, Koblenz, Köln, Konstanz, Krefeld
  • Lahr, Landau, Leinfelden, Leipzig, Lindau, Lörrach, Lübeck, Lüdenscheid (opened in 2005), Ludwigsburg, Ludwigshafen, Lüneburg
  • Magdeburg, Mainz, Mannheim, Meissen, Minden, München
  • Neubrandenburg, Nordhausen, Nürnberg
  • Obertshausen, Offenbach, Oldenburg, Osnabrück
  • Perleberg, Pforzheim, Plauen, Pössneck, Potsdam
  • Quedlinburg
  • Regensburg, Reichenbach, Reutlingen, Rostock, Rutesheim
  • Saalfeld, Saarbrücken, Schmalkalden, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Schweinfurt, Schwerin, Selb, Siegen (opened in 2005), Singen, Sonderhausen, Sonneberg, Stade, Stuttgart, Suhl
  • Tornesch, Traunstein, Tuttlingen
  • Ulm
  • Verden (opened in 2005), Villingen-Schwenningen, Vilshofen, Völklingen (opened in 2005)
  • Weissenfels, Werl, 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.