Central Cemetery Furpach

The Central Cemetery Furpach has been the most important cemetery of the city of Neunkirchen since its opening in 1961. With a total area of 22.4 hectares, it is the third largest cemetery in Saarland after the Saarbrücken main cemetery and the Saarbrücken-Burbach forest cemetery.
Due to the significant increase in the population of Neunkirchen since the mid-19th century, the main cemetery Scheib, opened in 1875, had become too small for the number of burials. From 1933, plans were made for the establishment of a new municipal cemetery, for which a site on Spieser Höhe was initially considered. Due to the war, a military cemetery for fallen soldiers was established there in 1939, which had over 400 graves after the war, including those of foreign war casualties. They were uniformly planted with roses and bordered by a hornbeam hedge. The military cemetery was closed in 1959 and the war dead were partially reinterred in the main cemetery Scheib and partially in the collective cemetery Besch.

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