It should be a place of retreat, a place of reflection.
The planners of the Kranzberg cemetery expansion approached the matter with this wish.
With success.
Kranzberg
- It is sometimes revealing when you see the world through children's eyes.
Anyone who was at the new part of the Kranzberg cemetery on Sunday a little before the inauguration heard what toddlers say about the project: One regretted that he could no longer go sledding here, another noticed “the golden faucet” at the fountain .
Pastor Anton Erber, Mayor Hermann Hammerl and landscape architect Dietmar Narr directed the guests' attention to other aspects at the inauguration.
Retreat for reflection
Before the blessing of the urn wall and the new cemetery cross, Pastor Erber compared the fall of leaves in autumn with death, quoting a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke.
But unlike the leaves, people do not simply fall to the ground, but in God's hands, so the comforting words of the clergyman at this place, which, according to Hammerl, is not only the resting place for the deceased relatives, but also a “place of retreat for reflection and remembrance of the Deceased "should be.
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After the service, the believers had gathered in the new cemetery area to attend the inauguration by Pastor Anton Erber.
Benches and other little things are still missing.
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The first decision was taken in 2007
It was, of course, a long way until the new part of the cemetery, including the urn wall, could be inaugurated on September 19, 2021. In 2007 the local council decided to expand the community cemetery. Land was acquired, an architectural competition was carried out and preliminary planning was commissioned. The result: the project would have cost 1.6 million euros. In 2014 and 2015, the cemetery expansion in Thalhausen was put in between, according to Hammerl, and in 2016 the Kranzberg project was taken up again. In March 2017, the NRT planning office was finally commissioned to redesign the existing cemetery area; in 2018 there was the first draft plan, and in 2020 the factory planning. The contract was then awarded in January 2021. With the appropriate "manpower", says Hammerl,the Gaissmaier company completed the work in just five months - apart from minor residual work.
The new urn wall is simple and beautiful
"We are definitely looking forward to next year, when everything is green and blooming here," said the mayor.
On the one hand, Narr praised the “extraordinarily good cooperation” with the community and company, and above all pointed out the simple and beautiful materiality of the urn wall, the panels of which are made of shell limestone.
It is important - and for that, Narr was also grateful, because it is a place of dignity: “This is not an off-the-shelf solution”.
Total cost: 450,000 euros
By the way: The faucet at the well, where you can fill up the watering cans, is of course not made of gold, but only shines gold in the sunlight.
For 450,000 euros you couldn't have got a golden faucet.
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