The cemetery fees in Gauting are increasing.
However, only to a moderate extent - so that the congregation can continue to cover its costs.
Gauting
- Ingrid Hannemann was full of praise at the
Gauting
council meeting on Tuesday evening.
The more than 100-year-old forest cemetery is “a living facility”, and the last resting place is actively used, said the lawyer from the municipal consultancy firm Kubus.
But the municipality is obliged to operate its facility 100 percent cost-covering.
Therefore, the grave and usage fees for the funeral hall, for example, will increase somewhat from the new year - on average by 1.5 percent per year. The resolution for the new statutes was unanimously.
The new statute had been drawn up in accordance with the current municipal tax law, said the adviser in the local council.
For individual graves, surviving dependents will pay even less in the future: 503 instead of the previous 525 euros for ten years.
"In the case of community graves, the costs were previously set too low," said Hannemann.
Double graves previously cost 1050 euros for ten years, in future 1118 euros will be due.
And in the case of the urn niche graves, the surcharge for the structural system was missing - this fee rises accordingly from 525 to 800 euros for ten years.
Little-used tree graves had to be included in the statutes, as did the work of the community building yard.
According to the meeting proposal, for example, 800 euros will now be due for burials with excavations in graves and four pallbears.
The morgue fee is calculated at 140 euros for the first day, calculated consultant Hannemann.
So far, the use of the morgue has been paid for at 150 euros per bereavement.
For the funeral service in the funeral hall, 151 euros will be due in future.
"I had a lot of fun calculating the fees, which were not quite cost-covering up to now," the consultant confessed.
Because the Gauting cemetery at the foot of Forst Kasten alone is worth ten million euros.
The council unanimously approved the new fee statutes, which will come into force on January 1st.
Tree graves, the new stele and urn niches have been added to the fee statute, as the department head in the town hall responsible for funeral affairs, Dominik Rathner, said.
"That an anonymous urn burial takes place without relatives or other mourners must be clearly formulated."
With regard to the height of the tombs, a more precise distinction will be made in future between the historical and the new.
Markus Deschler (FDP) wanted to know: “Do old tombs have grandfathering?”
Yes, answered Mayor Dr.
Brigitte Kössinger.
But the community is very keen "that the beautiful part of the forest cemetery, which was laid out in 1912 with honorary, family and artist graves, is preserved in its characteristics."
Tobias Mc Fadden (Pirate Party / People for Gauting) was surprised that there should only be a gravestone base of a maximum of 25 centimeters.
In addition, Victoria Beyzer (FDP) passed on a request.
A citizen had to redesign the base of the tomb with a height of 26 centimeters after a written request.
“The cemetery administration shouldn't go through with a ruler,” says Beyzer and wished for “more sense of proportion”.
After all, the death of a relative is also a loss.
“We don't want to set a precedent,” the mayor defended this approach.
Because then the next survivor would build another centimeter higher and thus undo the statutes.
Annette Derksen (Greens) wishes that mourners can also take part in anonymous burials.
If that was the express wish of the deceased, "nobody should be present" at the anonymous burial, said Franz Jaquet (CSU).
With 17: 9 votes, the council decided that anonymous funerals should generally take place without guests.
At Jaquet's request, grave mound surrounds made of environmentally harmful plastic were removed from the regulations.
Christine Cless-Wesle