Bestattung Durchführung

Municipal statutes

As soon as you find a dead body or a person dies in your presence, you must inform the relatives or the police immediately.

Every corpse must be buried. Any person who finds a corpse or in whose presence a person dies must immediately inform the relatives or the police.

Any doctor in private practice who can be contacted is obliged to carry out the post-mortem examination without delay and to issue and hand over the death certificate. The same applies to doctors in hospitals and similar institutions for the deceased there. The person responsible must arrange the post-mortem examination without delay. Burial is generally possible at the earliest 48 hours after death. Corpses must be buried or cremated within 10 days of death. They can be buried in the ground or cremated. A burial permit is required for burial in Rhineland-Palatinate, which is issued by the local regulatory authority of the place of burial for burials in Rhineland-Palatinate. In addition, a grave application must generally be submitted to the cemetery administration if the grave is to be provided with a grave monument or other structural installation.

The obligations under the Burial Act must be fulfilled by the heir. If the heir cannot be identified in time or cannot be contacted in time for other reasons, the following persons are responsible in this order, provided they have full legal capacity:

1. the spouse or civil partner,
2. the children
3. the parents,
4. the other legal guardian,
5. the siblings,
6. the grandparents,
7. the grandchildren.

For the burial: a death certificate, the death certificate, a burial permit.

In the case of an urn burial, a certificate of the second official post-mortem examination prior to cremation.

There are fees

• for the issue of the death certificate,
• the issuing of the burial permit
• and other necessary official acts.

If the persons responsible for burial do not arrange for the burial of a deceased person, the burial is arranged by the responsible local regulatory authority and the persons responsible for burial are liable for the costs incurred.

Violation of the burial obligation is an administrative offense. If the relativesöare not in a position to pay the funeral costs and the estate of the deceased is also insufficient to cover the costs, theöthe relatives canörelatives can submit an apply to the relevant social welfare office to have the funeral costs covered.

• Every corpse must be buried.
• Every doctor in private practice must carry out a post-mortem examination and issue a death certificate
• Burial is possible at the earliest 48 hours after death.
• Burial/cremation must take place within 7 days at the latest.
• In Rhineland-Palatinate a burial permit is required >> issued by the local regulatory authority.
• The following persons are responsible for the realization of the burial (according to order)

1. the spouse or partner,
2. the children,
3. the parents,
4. the other legal guardian,
5. the siblings,
6. the grandparents,
7. the grandchildren

Please contact:

• a doctor to carry out the post-mortem examination and issue a death certificate.
• to the relevant registry office for the issue of a death certificate.
• To obtain a burial permit, which is required for a burial in Rhineland-Palatinate, please contact the local regulatory authority of the place of burial.
• for the burial and for a grave application to the cemetery administration of the place where the burial is to take place.
• for the transfer from the place of death to the cemetery/crematorium to a funeral home.