germany

  • Note on the statistics of cremations:
    • 1999 was the last year for which figures were available.
    • 2 crematoria closed in 2006 in Esslingen and Freidberg
  • 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, Cuxhaven
    • Darmstadt, Dessau, Diemelstadt, Döbeln, Dortmund, Dresden, Duisburg, Dusseldorf
    • Eberswalde, Eisenach, Eisleben, Erfurt, Essen
    • Flensburg, Forst (Lausitz), Frankfurt, Frankfurt (Oder), Freiberg, 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, Herzberg, Hildesheim (opened in 2006), Hof
    • Jena
    • Karlsruhe, Kassel, Kempten, Kiel, Koblenz, Köln, Konstanz, Krefeld
    • Lahr, Landau, Leinfelden, Leipzig, Lindau, Lörrach, Lübeck, Lüdenscheid, Ludwigsburg, Ludwigshafen, Lüneburg
    • Magdeburg, Mainz, Mannheim, Meissen, Memmingen (opened in 2006), 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, Singen, Sonderhausen, Sonneberg, Stade, Stuttgart, Suhl
    • Tornesch, Traunstein, Tuttlingen
    • Ulm
    • Verden, Villingen-Schwenningen, Vilshofen, Völklingen
    • 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.