People and places

Notable graves

Trier Main Cemetery: Documented notable people, biographical context and guidance for finding their graves.

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People and memorials

Selected people

Biographies and grave information
  1. Grave of Gitta Lind

    Notable people

    Gitta Lind

    1925–1974

    Popular singer whose birth name was Rita Maria Gracher. After her death in 1974, she was buried in her parents’ grave at the main cemetery in her home city of Trier. The family grave is identified by the Gracher name.

This guide introduces selected biographies and graves connected with Trier Main Cemetery, including Gitta Lind. It is not a complete account of the people buried at the cemetery.

Locating the graves

No precise grave position is shown here for Gitta Lind. Ask City of Trier – cemetery administration for the section, row and grave number, then relate that reference to an entrance or named landmark on the general cemetery map.

Images for recognition

Grave or memorial photographs are shown for Gitta Lind. Use a photograph only as a recognition aid after obtaining the grave reference; it does not replace the section, row and grave number.

Ask about another person

Send City of Trier – cemetery administration the full name, known life dates, possible spelling variants and an approximate burial period. Ask specifically for the section, row and grave number. Include Herzogenbuscher Straße 8, 54292 Trier so the enquiry identifies Trier Main Cemetery when the operator manages more than one cemetery.