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Coffin burial

The municipal cemeteries offer coffin or earth burial. We discuss dates and details personally with the client.

Contact points

Description

Alongside urn burials, coffin burials and interment are the core services offered by Munich Municipal Cemeteries as part of its funeral services.

The Munich Municipal Cemeteries arrange the details – in particular the date – with the clients commissioning the funeral.

A coffin burial takes place as follows:

  • Laying out of the coffin
  • Placement of the coffin in the chapel of rest for the subsequent funeral service
  • Funeral service or farewell ceremony
  • Transport of the coffin in the funeral procession from the funeral parlour to the grave
  • Placing the coffin over the open grave
  • Assistance with the religious ceremony
  • Lowering the coffin
  • Supporting the bereaved during the closing ceremony (e.g. offering condolences)
  • Farewell

Duration and costs

Fees

On average 1500 euros

Available payment methods

Contact

City of Munich Cemeteries and Funeral Services Munich Operation of cemeteries, crematorium and gravestone office

Website

Telephone

Postal address

City of Munich Cemeteries and Funeral Services Munich Operation of cemeteries, crematorium and gravestone office

Damenstiftstraße 8
80331 München

Fax: +49 89 23199209

Address

Damenstiftstraße 8
80331 München

Monday to Thursday, 8 am to 12 noon, 1 pm to 4 pm; Friday, 8 am to 3 pm. Appointments outside opening hours and at weekends or on public holidays must be arranged separately.

Availability

  • Wheelchair access
  • Disabled parking

Wheelchairs are available on request for people with mobility impairments.

Directions

Public transport

Related services

Burial under trees

Urn burial plots under trees are offered in selected near-natural burial plots in the forest cemetery.

Death certificate

The registry office issues death certificates after a death. As a rule, the appointed funeral parlour takes care of registering the death.

Urn burial

The urn burial, together with the coffin or burial in the ground, is the service offered by Munich Municipal Cemeteries in the funeral business.

Conclusion of a funeral contract

We offer the complete organisation of a funeral or repatriation. Our services correspond to those of private funeral parlours.

Burial in the hedge gardens

The "Heckengärten" at the Perlacher Forst cemetery is the first maintenance-free communal burial ground where coffins and urns can be buried together.

Change in the death register

If the details of a deceased person on their death certificate are incorrect, you can request the necessary change in the death register.

Death certificate in the event of death abroad

If German nationals have died abroad, you as a relative can have the death certified in Germany.

Assumption of funeral costs

In Germany, relatives of deceased persons must make funeral arrangements. In some cases, the Office for Social Security covers the costs.

Anonymous burial

In the anonymous burial ground at the Waldfriedhof cemetery, urns are buried anonymously outside cemetery opening hours and without relatives.

Burial in family graves

Two coffins or up to eight urns can be buried in burial plots, and up to six urns in urn burial plots.