Cemetery Stöcken: Revisit

This is the last Post about my visit to Hannover. It will be fairly large because at the Stöcken Cemetery was the best weather that day and since it was the second time for me there i knew that ther'll be plenty of intersting or beautiful things to shoot...

So let's get straight to the pictures:

Entry and Chapel: Neogothic at it's best!

Back of the Chapel. 

Odd. 

Crazy texture of that sandstone. And not made for eternity  i guess....

How thick can someone get? Why vandalizing this? I'll never get used to things of that kind... 

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.

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:

Detail of a beautiful angel

The same. This time more of a wideshot...

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.

Tomb of the Mittenzwei Family

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"

Very funny inscription: "Life's not a  Gala-Dinner!"

 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....

Hannover Engesohde Revisit

Very few text this time because i really don't bother to explain when and why i revisited. I also don't bother to tell you that the weather was dreadful and that -thanks for that- there is a weatherproof colonade with some remarkble beautiful sculptures there.

Here we go:

An experiment of mine: Am i the new Ed Wood or is it not that bad?

Since this is supposed to be a blog about Photos you will be in for a surprise this time:

I made a Video! With Sound!

But when you look at it you'll realize that it is nothing more but  a slideshow with some decent and (in my opinion at least) fitting soundtrack.

See for yourself:

Leaden Times in Milano

Some images fitting the time of the year: Winter's nearly gone but no sign of spring. A bit hopeless and very cold...

All pictures were taken  at the cimitero monumentale, Milano

Northern Cemetery Minden, Germany

My apologies. I admit i was lazy the last weeks and that was mainly because i didn't visit any cemtery for a long while.

Happily however my other Hobby (Geocaching) led me to a cemetery i've visited before (spring 2010 to be more precise): The Nordfriedhof in Minden.

It is quite near to my hometown and it is one of the better ones here around. Which isn't saying a lot.

However, there are some quite beautiful and/or interesting graves i'd like to show you:

This first one is a grave of  a teacher for fighter pilots; he obviously died during WW I.

Just look at that plane! Gosh, they were brave!

Here's the second one. A slightly aggressive looking Eagle that nicked a propellerblade.....

I wonder what profession this bloke had...

He wasn't an ornithologist, was he?

The third one is a bit odd: This female head just sticked out of the ground. I wonder if the rest of that sculpture is buried there, but i didn't look closer or even beginn to unearth her there. That's definetly a no-go on a cemtery, right? And i left my spade at home. It would look rather odd to walk around with a spade and a camera on a cemetery. Even on broad daylight..

But she is rather nice, isn't she?

The last mounument i'd like to show you is near the entrance. It is an astonishing piece of cemetery art for this part of the world and definetly not of the usual boring kind you usually find here.

Inscription says in Latin and German: "I was what you are, you will be what i am"

Detail of the skull:

And the last of that monument:

Here's an example why i'm such a big fan of italian Cemteries. You probably wonder what's that to do with this post about a cemetery in northern Germany, but bear with me:

Here's a sculpture of a lying woman on that very cemetery:

Nordfriedhof Minden

And here's a selection of lying women that i've found on italian Cemeteries:

Cimitero Monumentale, Milano

Staglieno, Genoa

Staglieno, Genoa

I know that's a bit unfair, but do you see my point?