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Individualism is announced. This is expressed also ever more on the cemetery. Many humans arrange the grave of their deceased in such a way that it reflects the completely personal taste and the life of the deceased. That can then from perspective third sometimes too & überzogen& or & kitschig& and & geschmacklos& work. Cemetery administrations and planners are endeavored to give to the cemeteries a continuous aesthetic conception in order to arrange it as attractive for the general public as resting, meditation and Erholungsort as possible. Here thus pretty often completely different perspectives collide.
How does both get along? To three fundamental questions at Werner Nohl, landscape architect and fee professor to DO Munich. &
Which meaning has the individual grave organization from the view of a planner? If the cemetery is to have existence as cultural mechanism on local level also in the future, then is & it importantly to go out with the organization of the requirements and needs of the users, above all the members. By it also the landscape architect has itself to hold, whose draft achievement is arranged on the larger functional and formative connections of the cemetery. For & „ excrescences \ " in the individual grave organization if necessary the cemetery administration would be responsible
As you define „ excrescences \ " & in the individual grave organization? From cultural view the individual grave organization serves the again discoverable detection of the deceased, and to recognizing it requires the difference and thus the individual arrangement of the grave place. Unfortunately cultural facts are often watered by the everyday use and made senseless. Thus by grave organization pretty often psychologically necessary recognizing in Repräsentationsgehabe is umgemünzt, and the grave organization loses thereby its actual task.
But who decides then over the correct degree at individualism? With strongly different conceptions over the individual grave organization if possible the cemetery statute should not give the excursion, but it should be tried over discussions between the parties involved to find a load-carrying consent solution. In addition it requires the cemetery administration of an adviser from a layman and draft specialists, who could in all other respects take over many other useful tasks on the cemetery in the framework.
The view of the VFFK the association to the promotion of the German cemetery culture registered association (VFFK) pleads for more freedom and individuality on the cemetery. The graves are place of the memory and thus for the survivors in its mourning of great importance. They must have the freedom to arrange these places in such a way that they help you to process the mourning. The cemetery is naturally also a social place, whose organization certain generally accepted defaults should follow, but it is in the first place a place for the deceased and the survivors. A reorientation is necessarily, up-to-date and for the future of the cemeteries essential. &
Zum& VFFK: In our schnelllebigen time, in which terms are such as globalization and mechanization the crucial key words, it made the VFFK it’s duty, the traditional funeral, cemetery and memory culture to maintain and promote. Our point of view: Each humans have a claim on memories and memory, as the members a right have on a place for their mourning at a worthy burial place. Therefore us tolerant handling different views is of death and mourning, is individually or culturally coined/shaped, particularly important it.