Altona Main Cemetery

The new facility, designed as a central cemetery for the whole of Altona, was to replace the existing small church burial grounds and with its generous area of green to provide an appropriately contemporary element of town planning.

[3] Tutenberg's plan was based on the concept of an "architectonic landscape" which would make possible a dignified burial even for the less well-off inhabitants of the town.

To explain his intentions Tutenberg wrote in 1928: "A visitor to the dead will not have the view of rows of graves stretching away into the distance but through the smaller space of the little garden... will have the opportunity for inner composure".

The soldiers' gravestones bear only an Iron Cross and the name of deceased, without any other decoration or even the dates of birth and death.

Since 2008[6][7] there has been in the north-east of the cemetery a special burial ground for supporters of the Hamburger SV (HSV): the Volksparkstadion lies directly over the road.