Melaten cemetery

Melaten is the central cemetery of Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, which was first mentioned in 1243.

It was developed to a large park, holding the graves of notable residents.

The "hoff to Malaten" (modern German: Hof der Maladen, or "yard of the malades") is first mentioned in a 1243 document.

[2] It is surrounded by streets, in the south Aachener Straße (Köln), in the east Piusstraße, in the west Oskar-Jäger-Straße and the Melatengürtel, and in the north Weinsbergstraße.

Melaten is located approximately one kilometre west of the city district of Cologne, just beyond the Bischofsweg (Köln), the historical boundary between the territory of the city and that of the archbishop.