New South Cemetery Munich Perlach Open building competition (Bavaria) 1st prize 1971

Excerpt from the explanatory report on the competition work:
Cemeteries in a democratic society must, in the opinion of the authors, be designed in a fundamentally neutral manner. In the public cemetery, people of all world views should have equal conditions for burying their dead. The cult of individual communities should not be imposed on the general public, even if it can refer to ancient traditions.
The large flat field is subdivided by trees and light terrain modeling into six easily manageable cemetery areas. The cemetery areas are fronted by an open space zone important for orientation. The funeral hall is centrally located slightly elevated above the lake. The superordinate path network leads from the main entrance via an inner circular path in a star shape into the occupancy areas. As the tender only required an occupancy of 40 he total area, the remaining 60% could be usefully developed as recreational green. Should cremation be preferred in later times, the cemetery can be used as a park. The highways were covered by a noise barrier.

About the planting:
The plant sociologically oriented species composition of the oak hornbeam forest shows the multi-level nature of the woody groups well, whereby the pioneer species were already removed with the selective maintenance work. In the process, the surplus plants were put on the stock and thus took over the function of an undergrowth, in which, by the way - quite desirably - the first herbaceous flora also reestablished itself. Later the grove edges were closed among other things still with forest edge woods, but also around the fallen foliage in the grove stands to hold and still additional foliage to bring in to be able.
The water plants set in the lake developed well at individual planting places.

Publications:
Garden and landscape Aug. 1970
Stonemason and sculptor Nov. 1972
Stonemason and sculptor Apr. 1980
Architecture competition Sept. 1983