Water urns at the Main Cemetery, a forest scattering path, a scattering meadow, and joint human-animal burials in Mombach: These are new burial options that the Wirtschaftsbetrieb Mainz, as the operator of the city’s cemeteries, has been offering in Mainz since this summer.

This has been made possible, in part, by the new Funeral Act in Rhineland-Palatinate, which took effect in the fall of 2025. The Wirtschaftsbetrieb Mainz provides information on the background, procedures, and various new burial options in its exhibition “Cemeteries in Transition,” running from September 1 through October 31, 2026, at the Mainz Environmental Store at Steingasse 3–9.