Stralsund Central Cemetery

The municipal central cemetery in Stralsund was laid out from 1939 according to a design by horticultural inspector Hans Winter (1895-1969). Based on the ideas of the cemetery reform movement, a 28-hectare woodland cemetery was created. It is a regionally significant example of exemplary planning and reform concepts in the first half of the 20th century.

From the outset, the cemetery grounds were seen as an attractive challenge for the garden designer due to their existing topography and the individual views of Stralsund's old town churches. In his design, Hans Winter made deliberate use of the terrain both for the large visual connection to the city and for the modeling of the individual cemetery spaces.

The overall orientation of the cemetery and the basic structure were very simple. The three defining visual axes and a wide perimeter path, which was to accommodate the paths to the individual cemetery spaces, formed the basic spatial framework of the complex. A dense woodland fringe with a natural composition of trees and shrubs surrounded the entire cemetery.

The tour follows the garden-historical traces of the creation and development of the central cemetery.