Origins and development
The City of Munich gives 1937 as the year of establishment. The cemetery was designed to plans by Bruno Biehler.
Origins: 1937. The cemetery is in Warnberg/Solln, Thalkirchen-Obersendling-Forstenried-Fürstenried-Solln borough, at Warnbergstraße 2, 81479 München. Its area is approximately 7.29 hectares.
Design and present-day character
A woodland cemetery designed by Bruno Biehler, with forest-like paths and a listed group of buildings at the southern main entrance.
Read this character description together with the development of Solln Woodland Cemetery: it identifies what gives the grounds their present identity without turning the cemetery into a purely historical attraction. A visit can focus on spatial structure and named orientation points while leaving individual graves undisturbed.
Connect the account with the grounds
The cemetery map contains 29 named places for Solln Woodland Cemetery. Among them are Warnbergstraße main entrance, Funeral hall, Information board 1. Use these names to relate the historical account to locations visible during a visit, without assuming that every historical feature has its own marker.
Continue the visit
The cemetery tour turns selected named points at Solln Woodland Cemetery into a practical visit outline. For access questions or information tied to present cemetery operations, contact City of Munich, Municipal Cemeteries; administered by the old section of Waldfriedhof rather than drawing operational conclusions from the historical account.