Friedhof Nirmer Strasse in Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen

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District of Eilenburg, Nirmer Strasse
Aachen, Stadtkreis Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen 52080 Germany

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The cemetery was opened in 1917 and has a size of about 17 acres. In 2004 a columbarium was opened for inurnments. The cemetery has a war grave section with 56 civilian victims, who were killed during a bomb raid on May 25, 1944 and a section with graves of 76 soldiers from WW II.

It is one of 25 cemeteries in the city of Aachen:

Friedhof Heissberg
Ostfriedhof
Friedhof Hüls
Friedhof Verlautenheide
Friedhof Hand
Friedhof Horbach
Friedhof Richterich
Westfriedhof I
Westfriedhof II
Friedhof Friesenrath
Friedhof Nirmer Strasse
Waldfriedhof in Aachen
Friedhof Lintert
Friedhof Schleckheim
Friedhof Kolpingstrasse
Friedhof Eschenallee (defunct)
Grabeskirche Sankt Josef
Friedhof "An der Kirche Hand"
Friedhof "An der Kirche St. Severin"
Friedhof "An der Kirche St. Stephan"
Friedhof "Forst"
Friedhof "Friesenstraße"
Friedhof "Hahn"
Friedhof "Lichtenbusch"
Friedhof "Oberforstbach"
Friedhof "Orsbach"
Friedhof "Schmidthof"
Friedhof "Walheim"

Other burial grounds in Aachen are:
Aachener Dom (Cathedral)

There are/were also 6 Jewish Cemteries in the city:
Jüdischer Friedhof Eilendorf (defunct)
Jüdischer Friedhof Haaren (defunct)
Jüdischer Friedhof Kornelimünster (defunct)
Jüdischer Friedhof Lütticher Straße
Jüdischer Friedhof Hüls
Jüdischer Friedhof im Waldfriedhof Aachen

Please note that the graves in Germany are not perpetual. After a certain period of repose (20-30 years) the graves are being leveled and re-used. There is no toxic embalming being done in Germany, so the coffin and the corpse have decomposed naturally. If the family of the deceased decides to purchase another period the duration can be extended by another 30 years. War Graves are considered memorials and are kept up by the owner of the cemetery. Those are kept forever.