Cemetery

  • Performance specification

    The town of Beckum maintains two cemeteries, the park cemetery in Beckum-Roland, Hinteler 10, and the cemetery on Elisabethstraße.
    Both cemeteries are open to people of all faiths.
    There are now various burial options at the cemeteries:

    • Elective burial site for burials in the ground and urns
    • Row grave for burial in the ground and urn burial (Roland Park Cemetery only)
    • Lawn burial site for burials in the ground and urns (Roland park cemetery only)
    • Tree burial, urn burial (Roland park cemetery only)
    • Burial of urns in communal graves - stone circles, columbarium (Elisabethstraße cemetery only)
    • Burial in communal graves (Elisabethstraße cemetery only)
    • Ashes scattering field, burial without urn (Roland Park Cemetery only)
    • Anonymous urn row grave (Roland Park Cemetery only)
    • Gravesite for different religious communities (Roland Park Cemetery only)

    Further and more detailed information is available here.

    Local law

    Statutes of the town of Beckum on the use of municipal cemeteries (cemetery statutes)

    Legal bases in general

    Cemetery and Burial Act (Bestattungsgesetz - BestG NRW)

  • Costs

    The different fees for the various burial options and for the use of the mortuary and mourning hall can be found in the current cemetery fee statutes of the town of Beckum.


Responsible departments

Responsible staff