As of: January 23, 2024, 8:00 p.m
By: Andrea Hermann
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Urn graves are to be created in the Nandlstadt cemetery along the cemetery wall.
It is still unclear whether a raised bed for urn tubes will also become established.
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As part of the redesign of the cemetery, the community of Nandlstadt would like to create more graves for urns.
It remains to be seen whether a raised bed for urn tubes will prevail following the recent discussion.
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– The demand for urn graves is increasing – also in Nandlstadt.
Therefore, as part of the cemetery redesign, which the community has been putting off for years and now wants to tackle, urn grave sites are to be built.
After an initial inventory by cemetery planner Heinrich Kettler from Münster-Hiltrup, concrete proposals were recently presented to the local council.
Sebastian Unger: “People want to get away from the urn wall, and now we’re putting them in a tube.” © private
Urn graves measuring one square meter are to be created along the cemetery wall on Herzog-Stephan-Straße.
Graves for star children, anonymous collective graves and a raised urn bed for 32 graves are also planned, with space for two urn tubes in each grave.
Some market councilors couldn't get used to these earth tubes and their lids - especially CSU market councilor Sebastian Unger.
“People want to get away from the urn wall because they want to be buried in the ground, and now we're putting them in a tube.” He didn't like that.
Patrick Nocker (UWN) also finds this type of burial “stupid” and feels that this form reminds him of a “message in a bottle”.
Bernd Stöckele (GOL) is convinced that every deceased person “who wants to be placed in the ground wants to be connected to the earth” – and does not want to be placed in a pipe.
But that, emphasized Reinhard Krojer (UWN), is possible: “If someone wants an earth grave, they can take one.”
Patrick Nocker: Urn earth tubes look “like a message in a bottle”.
“I think that’s stupid.” © private
Andreas Baumann from the funeral home of the same name in Au, who came as a listener to the most recent market council meeting, emphasized when asked by the local councilors that such urn tubes are “terribly practical” and a “great story”.
Reinhard Krojer also sees it this way: “Many people don’t want to look after the grave.” Raised beds with tubes like this are practical because they are “easy to care for”.
With an urn burial, however, Baumann explained, “people care about the surroundings – where you can go and what you can plant.”
No agreement was reached at the most recent meeting, but this was not yet necessary.
“It’s just a fundamental decision,” emphasized 3rd Mayor Michael Schranner (BLN).
When planning exactly, you have to “talk about it again”.
And so he advocated a “decision with freedom of planning” – which everyone ultimately agreed to.
According to the market administration, around 150,000 euros are due for the complete installation of the first area with a raised urn bed, urn and star child graves as well as an anonymous collective grave.
The committee agreed with this.