A
woodland cemetery is a
cemetery where the original landscape with existing trees has been given much influence on the
landscape architecture of the cemetery, and where the graves are fitted in among the trees. A woodland cemetery is designed so that the landscape is given a more prominent position, and grave monuments, chapels and other buildings are given less prominent positions. The trees of the cemetery might originally have been a
woodland or a tighter
forest where a portion of the trees have been removed, and some of the trees might be planted as well. Among famous woodland cemeteries that became models for other cemeteries of similar design are the
Munich Waldfriedhof of 1907 in Germany, often mentioned as the first woodland cemetery, and
Skogskyrkogården outside of Stockholm in Sweden which is declared a
world heritage site.
The Woodlands (Philadelphia), an arboretum which was turned into a Victorian
rural cemetery in 1840, is a
National Historic Landmark District.