As of: March 25, 2024, 5:30 a.m
By: Bert Brosch
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The new grave field for star children in the Heimstetten cemetery was inaugurated and blessed with a dignified ceremony.
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Grief, love, hope: Associations and donors make a life spiral and a stele for star children possible in the Heimstetten cemetery.
Kirchheim
- In collaboration between the hospice association, cemetery administration, artist Roman Hummitzsch and several donors, a community grave field for star children was created in the Heimstetten cemetery (Kirchheim community).
Everyone involved inaugurated the “Spiral of Life” together.
Verena Reckzeh and Angelika Nobody from the Kirchheim hospice association had started planning
Ten years ago, Verena Reckzeh and Angelika Nobody from the Kirchheim Hospice Association began planning a memorial and resting place for children who were stillborn or who died immediately after birth.
Through close cooperation with the cemetery administration and the community, the hospice association was now able to have a large, steel life spiral created by Roman Hummitzsch.
This is filled with small and large pebbles; all parents and mourners are allowed to place their own stones there, including colored ones.
Outside the spiral there are stones placed in the ground under which small urns can be sunk.
Place for grief, love and hope for the star children and their relatives
“In addition to the tree graves and the anonymous graves, there is now finally a place for grief, love and hope for the star children and their relatives.
“Angelika would definitely have liked this very much,” said Reckzeh.” Angelika Nobody is Reckzeh’s friend who died far too early.
Generous donors also made it possible to have a stele in the form of a standing spiral for the grave, also made by Hummitzsch.
Thanks to the “Valdos” and “Hoaschenger Kegelclub” clubs
Reckzeh thanked the “Valdos” and “Hoaschenger Kegelclub” clubs, whose donation from a benefit concert with Roland Hefter was topped up by Hefter and Harry Hoyler from the “Helferschwein eV” club.
“That’s just great and not a given.” Mayor Stephan Keck (SPD) also thanked the Kirchheim clubs and the social network.
“All people need places where they can meet, pause, celebrate and also mourn.
This gravesite is a wonderful place for all the people with whom we were not privileged to live and celebrate together.”
Artist Roman Hummitzsch designed the life spiral and donation
Artist Roman Hummitzsch said that one of the tasks of art is to make feelings visible.
“The spiral of life rises into the sky towards the stars and thus honors the memory of the star children.” Everything in our lives is spiral-shaped: water whirlpools, smoke, wind or the structure of galaxies.
“We hope that in this connection between heaven and earth, parents, families and siblings will find comfort and hope as they move forward on their own journey through life,” Hummitzsch said.
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Pastor Ute Heubeck and Pastor Werner Kienle say prayers
The Protestant pastor Ute Heubeck said that for many people it is incomprehensible how God could allow something like this.
“Everyone is looking forward to the child and the birth – and then the bad news, the immeasurable pain.
The spiral has a beginning and a destination point, if the two are too close together it is unbelievable.” The spiral should therefore be a place of encounter, consolation and remembrance.
“It should give those affected an opportunity to be close to their child,” said Heubeck.
After several prayers by Catholic priest Werner Kienle, Kirsten Reif-Twieg on guitar and Stefanie Dittmer on saxophone concluded the ceremony with a moving version of “Tears in Heaven”.