Nordfriedhof, whose name is translated from German as "Northern Cemetery," is one of the largest in Munich. It was founded back in 1884, and currently has 34000 burials. Physicist and mathematician Arnold Sommerfeld, philosopher Oswald Spengler, actor Gunther Kaufmann, writer Leonhard Frank, and singer Johannes Heesters found their final resting place at Nordfriedhof.
The name of the cemetery applies not only to the cemetery itself, but also to the metro station and the adjacent areas.
The most notable places at Nordfriedhof are considered to be the chapel, the morgue, and the wall, erected approximately between 1896 and 1899 by the municipal architect Hans Grassel. In 1962, Eugen Jacobi also built a columbarium here.
By the way, the chapel of Nordfriedhof Cemetery is mentioned in the novella by the famous German writer Thomas Mann, "Death in Venice," where it becomes a symbol of imminent death.
