Hauptfriedhof Frankfurt, Cemetery and architectural heritage monument in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.

Hauptfriedhof Frankfurt (Oder) covers about 20 hectares, making it the city's largest cemetery. Its paths follow a mostly regular geometric grid across undulating ground, lined with avenues of linden, red beech, Douglas fir, hazel and chestnut, plus rows of maple, robinia, birch and hornbeam. Fieldstone boundary walls survive along the north, west and east paths, and fountains and basins of varied geometric shapes stand among the graves.

The cemetery opened in 1879, replacing a burial ground used since 1802 on the Fürstenwalder Straße, which became today's Kleistpark. It was enlarged in 1904, 1920 and 1930 toward the southeast, keeping the old fieldstone wall along the former Ostweg. The 1929/30 mourning hall with crematorium by Stadtbaumeister Josef Gesing replaced an earlier chapel on the Leipziger Straße.

The cemetery preserves the grave of the Frankfurt sculptor family Fürstenberg, whose relief dates from 1926, and that of Karl Krone, owner of a menagerie and founder of the circus dynasty of the same name. Both lie near the crematorium, some with wrought-iron enclosures.

The cemetery is located at Am Hauptfriedhof 1 and easily accessible, with signage guiding you through different sections. Wear comfortable shoes as the grounds are expansive and require significant walking to explore properly.

The central war grave site holds over 7,600 soldiers and civilian internees from both World Wars. Homecoming transports of seriously ill prisoners of war released early from Siberia also ended here, a detail easily missed among the geometric paths.