Friedhof Öjendorf, Rural cemetery in Billstedt, Germany.
Öjendorf Cemetery is a large burial ground in the Billstedt district covering approximately 99 hectares with diverse burial sections. The cemetery includes lawn graves, family plots, and specialized areas designed for different faith communities.
Planning for a main cemetery at Öjendorf began in the 1930s, once it was clear that Ohlsdorf Cemetery's capacity would soon be exhausted. In 1933 the city of Hamburg bought 317 hectares in Öjendorf, then part of Prussia, for 2.2 million Reichsmarks. The site had served as a gravel pit and was renaturalised from the mid-1930s, with a tree nursery set up beforehand. First burials took place from 1955 in the Italian memorial cemetery in the north; the cemetery opened on 14 July 1966.
The Italian memorial area here holds graves of victims from the National Socialist period, transferred to this location during the 1950s. This memorial space serves as a place of remembrance for those of Italian heritage.
A ring road about five kilometres long with parking spaces runs through the grounds, and a bus line has served the cemetery since the early 1980s, today line 461 from Horner Rennbahn U-Bahn station via Manshardtstraße. Grave locations are given as section, field and grave number, and a site plan marks the roads, sections and memorial areas.
The Muslim burial ground opened in 1978 and was extended on 21 November 2008 with a section laid out with the Schura to resemble a prayer rug. It has a stone table for laying out the dead and several washing places for the feet.
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