Ohlsdorf Cemetery, in the city's far north, is one of those Hamburg sights that surprises visitors: a 391-hectare landscaped park-cemetery laid out from 1877 by the gardener Wilhelm Cordes in the style of an English picturesque garden, scattered with ponds, sculpture, mausoleums and individual graves of remarkable people.
Famous residents include the conductor Hans von Bülow, the painter Philipp Otto Runge and the actor Hans Albers. Several large monuments commemorate civilian victims of the 1943 firebombing. The cemetery has its own bus line — Hamburg city bus 170 — and twelve internal stops. The chapel near the main entrance has a small museum on the cemetery's history. The autumn foliage is particularly fine.