The cemetery in Kassel is a big one. Lots of old and huge trees and the atmosphere at this autumn day was spectacular. It was sunny and the morning mist was still around, so the light was just amazing.
See for yourself:
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Tuesday, 3 February 2015
Main Cemetery in Kassel
I know, i know.... it's been a while since the last entry. 13 months to be precise! And yet... i'm not done here. There are still plenty of cemteteries to visit.
The cemetery in Kassel is a big one. Lots of old and huge trees and the atmosphere at this autumn day was spectacular. It was sunny and the morning mist was still around, so the light was just amazing.
See for yourself:
The cemetery in Kassel is a big one. Lots of old and huge trees and the atmosphere at this autumn day was spectacular. It was sunny and the morning mist was still around, so the light was just amazing.
See for yourself:
Thursday, 9 January 2014
Hamburg Ohlsdorf -revisit-
The last time in Hamburg Ohlsdorf was not *very* good. It was a tight schedule and it was ruined by a biblical downpour so that the amount of pictures i took there didn't do this cemetery any justice.
This time however it was not perfect (a slight drizzle and a dull grey sky) but it was not impossible.
Still we (my wife was again with me) couldn't see all of it. This cemetery is so huge that you honestly need a week to explore all. And it is a tiresome job since everything is so far apart. We stumbled around for about 3 hours and came up with some decent images.
Anyway, enough of the words and on to the picures...
This time however it was not perfect (a slight drizzle and a dull grey sky) but it was not impossible.
Still we (my wife was again with me) couldn't see all of it. This cemetery is so huge that you honestly need a week to explore all. And it is a tiresome job since everything is so far apart. We stumbled around for about 3 hours and came up with some decent images.
Anyway, enough of the words and on to the picures...
Monday, 25 March 2013
Riensberg Cemetery, Bremen
The Riensberg Cemetery was not the sole purpose of our visit to Bremen. Mainly it was the Ludovico Einaudi concert. But since we were there we took the opportunity to visit this beautiful cemetery. It has quite a lot of marvellous monuments, but the landscape is even more stunning. This park-like cemetery has lots of old trees (which i love on cemeteries) and there's even a beautiful lake inside the cemetery. And since Bremen is near the North Sea it even has it's own flock of seagulls.
We once again were lucky regarding the weather so we had fantastic light at the hour before sunset.
We once again were lucky regarding the weather so we had fantastic light at the hour before sunset.
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| Rock'n'Roll Angel |
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| It's all greek to me... |
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| What a stunning piece of art! Just look at the level of detail.. |
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| Crazy colours. |
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| Mosaic above the crematorium. |
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| The crematorium. |
Thursday, 21 February 2013
Ostenfriedhof Dortmund
Sometimes i get asked how i manage to find the Cemeteries that are shown in this blog. Some of these Cemeteries are so famous that further research about them is redundant (Like Highgate in London: It's clear that it is a good one. Or Pere la Chaise in Paris: Another obvious one.).
Every single Cemetery in Italy is worth a visit as long the belonging city is bigger than 30.000 people. That's a fact. The cemetery in Verona (population 264.000) is far more spectacular than the Cemetery in Hamburg (population 1.800.000) which has the biggest Parklike Cemetery in the world. But a big park does not make a great cemetery. It's (at least that's what i'm after) the statues and the sculptures. The Angels. The beauty. It's not the amount of Rhododendron.
But why the Ostenfriedhof Dortmund? Well, we were invited to attend a party in Dortmund anyway so i took the opportunity to visit a cemetery there as well.
First step is always Wikipedia. You'll get a decent list of cemeteries as long as the city you're planning to visit is big enough. Dortmund is fairly big (popolation ca. 580.000) so i was lucky this time and found the entry for the Ostenfriedhof Dortmund. And since you always get coordinates for an entry like this you can check out the location on Google Earth. There you can find often pictures of the cemetery and get a feeling about the place. This time i was fairly confident that the Ostenfriedhof was worth a visit and i was quite right!
Sometimes the research about the visited Cemetery is not ended after the visit. This time i digged deeper than ususal and i learned a very interesting fact about this beautiful cemetery: Many sculptures there were made by Benno Elkan, a jewish artist born in Dortmund.
Sorry 'bout the massive amount of text this time, but i deemed it worthy...
Every single Cemetery in Italy is worth a visit as long the belonging city is bigger than 30.000 people. That's a fact. The cemetery in Verona (population 264.000) is far more spectacular than the Cemetery in Hamburg (population 1.800.000) which has the biggest Parklike Cemetery in the world. But a big park does not make a great cemetery. It's (at least that's what i'm after) the statues and the sculptures. The Angels. The beauty. It's not the amount of Rhododendron.
But why the Ostenfriedhof Dortmund? Well, we were invited to attend a party in Dortmund anyway so i took the opportunity to visit a cemetery there as well.
First step is always Wikipedia. You'll get a decent list of cemeteries as long as the city you're planning to visit is big enough. Dortmund is fairly big (popolation ca. 580.000) so i was lucky this time and found the entry for the Ostenfriedhof Dortmund. And since you always get coordinates for an entry like this you can check out the location on Google Earth. There you can find often pictures of the cemetery and get a feeling about the place. This time i was fairly confident that the Ostenfriedhof was worth a visit and i was quite right!
Sometimes the research about the visited Cemetery is not ended after the visit. This time i digged deeper than ususal and i learned a very interesting fact about this beautiful cemetery: Many sculptures there were made by Benno Elkan, a jewish artist born in Dortmund.
Sorry 'bout the massive amount of text this time, but i deemed it worthy...
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| The weather was a bit nasty, but raindrops are always rewarding... |
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| Iron-wrought papaver. |
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| Wandelnde, 1904, Benno Elkan |
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| Persephone, 1908, Benno Elkan |
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| Persephone, 1908, Benno Elkan |
Thursday, 7 June 2012
Hannover Ricklingen
Yeah. I know. I'm a bit of a lazy bastard. It's been quite a while since i've made one but today its right to post about the second cemetery i've visited in Hannover back in April.
The last one is very unprofessional: Out of focus, underexposed and a really dreadful perspective. It made it into this entry because of it's funny inscription.
My excuse: It was very dreadful weather at that time: Quite a biblical downpour with thunder and lightning and all. So it was too dark, too wet and i'm not really fit for treats like this....
It is the "Stadtfriedhof Ricklingen" (City Cemetery Ricklingen). Founded 1908 and containing about 30.000 (dead) people.
It does not contain very much monuments, statues or graves that meet my taste, but there are some gems nonetheless:
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| Detail of a beautiful angel |
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| The same. This time more of a wideshot... |
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| Tomb of the Mittenzwei Family: According to the booklet this is one of the very early statues of the Cemetery and it is a brilliant piece of art. |
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| Tomb of the Mittenzwei Family |
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| Very moving inscription. Here's a rough translation for all you non-german speaking folks: "You Dead You Dead What shall we do Our life's golden path ended in dread and night Because man did too much Because man thought too little" |
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| Very funny inscription: "Life's not a Gala-Dinner!" |
My excuse: It was very dreadful weather at that time: Quite a biblical downpour with thunder and lightning and all. So it was too dark, too wet and i'm not really fit for treats like this....
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