2023-10-25 08:00:00
If you don’t want it to be a grave or an urn, but still a consecrated place for your final resting place: a dedicated team from Stuhlfelden has thought regarding it and has now implemented the concept.
The meeting point for the PN visit at the beginning of October is the Stuhlfelden cemetery. While waiting for the round to be complete, Elfriede Friesinger and Andrea Huber did not remain idle. They pull out very small but even more stubborn weeds, rake the gravel and remove withered flowers. They agree that the annual summer flowers will soon have to be replaced by winter-hardy plants.
Mayor Sonja Ottenbacher explains the background to the new memorial, which is located in a northwest corner of the magnificent pilgrimage and parish church. “The need arose from the fact that the relatives of some of our deceased live far away. It is not possible for them to maintain a conventional grave or an urn grave. Of course, there are now natural burials in the forest or in a grove, but the earth is there “It is not consecrated. There are also other reasons why some people do not want a natural burial.”
Tubes for rottable urns
The topic was so important to the two community representatives and their male colleagues Christian Bonemaier and Hubert Egger that they founded a working group. The idea that has now been realized has crystallized: There are three stone steles on which relatives can have an individually inscribed plaque attached. Their size is specified so that the uniform image is not disturbed. Two panels are already installed. On one of the two you can discover not only the inscription, but also a symbol. Metal lanterns are placed between the steles. There are tubes underneath the gravel for the rottable urns. Their respective location is precisely measured and can therefore be easily found once more if the worst comes to the worst. According to Sonja Ottenbacher, head of office Josef Voithofer and the four community representatives, there has already been a lot of positive feedback from the population.
The dean would like a Christian symbol…
Ottenbacher takes the opportunity to publicly thank the working group team for their commitment: “They are such energetic people, I really appreciate that. And I am very pleased that we can now offer this memorial in Stuhlfelden .”
Dean Adalbert Dlugopolsky also shows great benevolence: “It’s really successful. Above all, the memorial is located on consecrated ground. The living and the dead form a unit. I would like the place here even better if a Christian symbol were also attached – a cross, for example.”
There is also a new place to commemorate star children
Also new at the Stuhlfelden cemetery is a place to commemorate so-called “star children” (seen in photo 2). This is what babies are called who “went to heaven” (or poetically to the stars) before they even saw the light of day.
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