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Melaten Cemetery

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Location: North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Claudia 🚶🏼‍♀️🚴‍♀️

July 23, 2018

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Melaten Cemetery is Cologne's central cemetery. The name Melaten is based on the French word for sickness, "malade." From the 12th century onward, a leper colony, which included the Melaten estate, was located on the grounds outside the city gates. Designated a historical monument in 1980, Melaten Cemetery is now a popular destination, primarily due to the many prominent figures buried there.

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JakobusPilger

May 22, 2021

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An informative read for a stroll through Cologne's Melaten Cemetery is the book "Melaten - Graves Tell City History" by Detlef Rick with photographs by Britta Schmitz, published by Emons Verlag, ISBN 9783740813789 (this book recommendation is from Trixie55).

Update Autumn 2021: According to the publisher, a completely revised new edition is now available. The book can be obtained (to suggest alternatives to Amazon) from local Catholic public libraries or ordered here:

borromedien.de/produkt-1994/melaten/13230801

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RobertO

October 22, 2020

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A stroll through the Melatenfriedhof is a stroll through the history of Cologne

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