1998 - Tree Burial

Variety of Burial Options

This section was established in 1998. In no other part of the cemetery is the shift in burial culture so clearly evident. Here we find many modern burial options and row graves. The demand for in-ground burials in family graves or row graves is declining. In contrast, the demand for a wide variety of grave types and burial options is increasing. Cremations are now the norm. The reasons for this are manifold. Often, there is a lack of opportunity or willingness to maintain a grave over the long term. Family structures are changing, and cost-benefit considerations play a role. Remembrance and mourning are becoming detached from the grave site and shifting elsewhere. Cemeteries are becoming multicultural.

This development poses major challenges for cemetery administrations. At the same time, graves or burial plots that become vacant offer them new opportunities to design burial options. For example, the first tree graves were created here: urns are placed in the ground around the tree, and the name of the deceased is displayed on a plaque on the tree trunk or a stele.

The wind blows a leaf from the tree, one among many leaves, this single leaf—one hardly notices it, for one is, after all, none.

Yet this leaf alone, was part of our life, and so this leaf alone, will be missed by us again and again.

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1998 - Tree Burial

1998 - IMPRESSIONS

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