Coffin burial
The municipal cemeteries offer coffin or earth burial. We discuss dates and details personally with the client.
Course description
Alongside urn burials, coffin burials and interment are the core services offered by Munich Municipal Cemeteries as part of its funeral services.
The Munich Municipal Cemeteries arrange the details – in particular the date – with the clients commissioning the funeral.
A coffin burial takes place as follows:
- Laying out of the coffin
- Placement of the coffin in the chapel of rest for the subsequent funeral service
- Funeral service or farewell ceremony
- Transport of the coffin in the funeral procession from the funeral parlour to the grave
- Placing the coffin over the open grave
- Assistance with the religious ceremony
- Lowering the coffin
- Supporting the bereaved during the closing ceremony (e.g. offering condolences)
- Farewell
Contact Us
City of Munich Cemeteries and Funeral Services Munich Operation of cemeteries, crematorium and gravestone office
Internet address
Phone number
Postal address
City of Munich Cemeteries and Funeral Services Munich Operation of cemeteries, crematorium and gravestone office
Damenstiftstraße 8
80331 München
Fax: +49 89 23199209
Contact address
Damenstiftstraße 8
80331 München
Monday to Thursday, 8 am to 12 noon, 1 pm to 4 pm; Friday, 8 am to 3 pm. Appointments outside opening hours and at weekends or on public holidays must be arranged separately.
Availability
- Not available:Barrier-free access
- Not available:Parking for disabled people
Wheelchairs are available on request for people with mobility impairments.