Acquire the right of use of the cemetery
Source: BUS Rheinland-PfalzIn municipal cemeteries, row graves must be made available in any case (note: the right of use cannot be extended). These can be urn row graves or row graves for earth burial.
In addition, the municipality can provide elective graves (right of use can be extended and one has the choice of location), also for both forms of burial or as mixed graves.
The municipalities, in the case of church cemeteries, the carriers of church burial places (= parish) regulate the use of the cemetery by statute or user regulations.
The relatives of a deceased person (= person obliged to bury) contact the competent city or municipality (where the deceased is to be buried) in order to acquire the right to bury the deceased in the cemetery of the municipality. The right to use a grave site is acquired for a certain period of time, whereby the grave remains the property of the cemetery owner. All relevant rules (including what kind of graves there are and how high the fee for the acquisition of the right of use is) are contained in the cemetery statutes and/or funeral fee regulations (or similar).
Contact the community in whose area the cemetery is located to the local cemetery office of the respective city or municipality.
Please ask the responsible cemetery office which documents are required.
The fees are based on the cemetery fee statute of the respective municipality.
An overview of the fees charged by the individual local communities can be found under the following link.
- Law on Cemetery and Burial Services in Rhineland-Palatinate (BestG)
- State Ordinance for the Implementation of the Funeral Act (BestG-DVO)
- Cemetery statutes of the municipalities
- Statutes of the municipalities on cemetery fees
- § 28 to 30 of the Civil Status Act
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The service description serves as an initial overview of the legal situation in Rhineland-Palatinate and cannot replace any legal advice required in individual cases. According to the Act on Extrajudicial Legal Services, legal advice or legal advice is reserved, inter alia, to members of the legal profession.
Your responsible office:
Verbandsgemeinde Göllheim - Fachbereich 3 - Bürgerdienste
Citizen services
Address
67307 Göllheim
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Opening hours
GENERAL OPENING HOURS
Monday08.30 - 12.0014.00 - 16.00Tuesday08.30 - 12.0014.00 - 16.00Wednesday08.30 - 12.00closedThursday08.30 - 12.0014.00 - 18.00Friday08.30 - 12.00closedIn addition,in special cases, appointments can also be arranged with individual members of staff outside the general visiting hours.
OPENING HOURS CITIZENS' OFFICE
Monday08.30 - 12.0014.00 - 16.30Tuesday08.30 - 12.0014.00 - 16.30Wednesday08.30 - 12.00closedThursday08.30 - 12.00
14.00 - 18.00Friday08.30 - 12.00
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OPENING HOURSSOCIAL WELFARE OFFICE
Monday08.30 - 12.00Tuesday08.30 - 12.00Wednesday08.30 - 12.00
Thursday14.00 - 18.00Friday08.30 - 12.00
Contact person
Address
67307 Göllheim
Telephone
Fax
Website
room
Responsible for:
- Göllheim:
- Acquire the right of use of the cemetery
- Adoption of a German child Certification in the birth register
- Adoption of a foreign child Notarization in the birth register
- Apply for a birth certificate
- Apply for a certificate of no impediment
- Apply for a death certificate for a family member
- Applying for a civil partnership certificate
- Certificate of Descent
- Certify birth abroad
- Change of surname due to the declaration on the name of spouses
- Change of surname due to the declaration on the naming of civil partners
- Civil protection
- Conversion of a civil partnership into a marriage
- Disaster prevention
- Family Book
- Family name change based on the declaration of displaced persons, ethnic German repatriates, their spouses and descendants
- Family name change child - declaration of connection
- Fire protection
- Funeral realization
- Issue a marriage certificate
- Leaving the church declaration
- Name change
- Name declaration in marriage in the absence of domestic civil status entry
- Notarizing a death abroad
- Printout from the birth register
- Recognition of paternity
- Register marriage
- Request multilingual birth certificate
- Show Death
- Show birth
- Show home birth
- Subsequent certification of a marriage contracted abroad
- Surname change child - redetermination of the birth name
- Surname change child - renaming
- resume one's birth name
Address
67307 Göllheim
Telephone
Fax
room
Responsible for:
- Göllheim:
- Acquire the right of use of the cemetery
- Adoption of a German child Certification in the birth register
- Adoption of a foreign child Notarization in the birth register
- Apply for a birth certificate
- Apply for a certificate of no impediment
- Apply for a death certificate for a family member
- Applying for a civil partnership certificate
- Certificate of Descent
- Certify birth abroad
- Change of surname due to the declaration on the name of spouses
- Change of surname due to the declaration on the naming of civil partners
- Conversion of a civil partnership into a marriage
- Family Book
- Family name change based on the declaration of displaced persons, ethnic German repatriates, their spouses and descendants
- Family name change child - declaration of connection
- Funeral realization
- Issue a marriage certificate
- Leaving the church declaration
- Name change
- Name declaration in marriage in the absence of domestic civil status entry
- Notarizing a death abroad
- Printout from the birth register
- Recognition of paternity
- Register marriage
- Request multilingual birth certificate
- Show Death
- Show birth
- Show home birth
- Subsequent certification of a marriage contracted abroad
- Surname change child - redetermination of the birth name
- Surname change child - renaming
- resume one's birth name