The Volksdorf Forest Cemetery, located in northeast Hamburg, is a very peaceful place; the numerous birdsong is not disturbed by city noise. To the northwest, it transitions into a wooded area traditionally known as “Ohlendorff’s Fir Trees.” As early as the 1930s, Baron von Ohlendorff had sold 14 hectares of land to the municipality for cemetery purposes. The Volksdorf Cemetery opened in 1959. Ohlendorff himself is buried in a stately mausoleum at the Ohlsdorf Cemetery.
