Funeral community
The burial community is a type of grave in which several authorized users share the right to use a grave site. A funeral community enables the bereaved to be relieved of grave maintenance by means of a trust agreement. This trustee organizes the dignified care of the grave over the entire legally prescribed rest period. In some cases, the tombstone and the fees are also covered by the trust agreement. Long-term trust agreements are concluded with a cemetery gardener's cooperative or a trust agency.
Refinements
In contrast to the anonymous burial of the deceased, the burial community has an individual grave place. Its grave maintenance is organized by a trustee, so that a respectful maintenance and a dignified design of the grave place is achieved over the entire stay. The surviving dependents are freed from their own efforts, for example if they live far away. This trust agency concludes a trust agreement with the person obliged to be buried and in turn binds a cemetery gardeners' cooperative or another suitable institution for the dignified care of graves over the entire, legally prescribed rest period. In some cases, the tombstone and the cemetery fees are also covered by the trust agreement. The form of a burial community is usually that of an urn community facility, which, however, requires cremation . Transferring grave maintenance to a trustee reduces the existing risk of transferring maintenance to a single nursery.
For traditional burials in coffins or urns, an individual grave site with a tomb and design options is provided by the cemetery administration and the relatives are obliged to maintain "a" dignified "form of the grave" for several decades in accordance with the cemetery statutes. However, the trend towards cemetery culture is slowly dissolving this long-term bond that is still unbroken in southern Europe and still widespread in southern Germany.
Motivations
- With a funeral community, the relatives receive a conventional grave site to deal with grief.
- Personal floral decorations may be placed on tomb communities administered in trust, which is not permitted on lawn tombs due to anonymity and because floral decorations hinder maintenance work.
- Surviving dependents are obliged by the cemetery regulations to take care of the graves, which in this community form is carried out by local specialist companies.
- The burial community is laid out on schedule before burials take place. This means that the bereaved already have a prefabricated grave site.
- Burials in communal areas are not anonymous and impersonal, each buried person is mentioned by name on a tomb. The bereaved have a designated place for mourning work.
costs
The costs of a funeral community are fixed over the entire period of use and the user is reliable in planning and can compare prices. The effort for trust communities, including maintenance and tombs, should be less than for a conventional grave site. Due to the fiduciary management over the entire lay-time, a “dignified” grave site is less risky than when tied to a single gardener who is subject to competing economic influences.
Funeral communities in Germany
The term “peace community” is protected by trademark law in Germany .
North Rhine-Westphalia
- Duisburg Parkfriedhof Duisburg-Hochheide as an urn community
Lower Saxony
- Achim / Weser as a partner grave, earth row grave and urn community.
- Celle as an urn community
- Langenhagen as a combination of urn places and earth row graves as well as partner graves
- Stolzenau as an urn row grave with one and two grave sites
- Wennigsen as an urn community
- Nienburg / Weser as tree rest as an election and row grave
- Braunschweig as a partner grave
- Meinerdingen as an urn community
Saxony-Anhalt
- Magdeburg as a partner grave and urn community
Berlin
At the Berlin cemeteries mentioned here, there are areas for burials in designed communal urn graves, where grave maintenance contracts are administered in trust:
- Adlershof cemetery (Friedlander Strasse) the construction of a designed communal grave for earth burials has been approved by the cemetery administration in this cemetery
- Baumschulenweg Cemetery (Baumschulenweg Crematorium)
- Britz Cemetery (Koppelweg)
- Grunewald Cemetery (Bornstädter Strasse)
- Heerstrasse Cemetery (Waldfriedhof Charlottenburg)
- Friedhof In den Kisseln (Spandau, Pionierstraße) here as a partner grave and family grave; there is also a memoriam garden here
- Lankwitz cemetery (Lange Straße) is also used here as a partner grave and designed communal grave for earth burials
- Lichterfelde cemetery (Moltkestrasse)
- Cemetery Pankow III (Am Bürgerpark) here also as an "eco-burial" in a biodegradable urn and as a partner grave
- Pankow XV cemetery (Weissensee, Roelckestrasse)
- Ruhleben cemetery (Am Hain crematorium) there is also a memorial garden here
- Schöneberg II cemetery (Eythstraße) here also as a partner grave and designed communal grave for earth burials
- Schöneberg III cemetery (Stubenrauchstrasse)
- Steglitz cemetery (Bergstrasse) there is also a memorial garden here
- Wilmersdorf Cemetery ( Wilmersdorf Crematorium, Berliner Strasse)
- Zehlendorf cemetery (Onkel-Tom-Straße) here also as a partner grave; there is also a memoriam garden here
- Heidefriedhof Mariendorf (Reißeckstraße) here also as a partner grave and designed community grave for earth burials
- Parkfriedhof Lichterfelde (Thuner Platz)
- Parkfriedhof Neukölln (Buckower Damm and Leonberger Ring)
- Urn cemetery Seestrasse
- Dahlem forest cemetery (Hüttenweg)
- Forest cemetery Oberschöneweide (An der Wuhlheide) the construction of a designed communal grave for earth burials has also been approved by the cemetery administration at this cemetery
- Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf (Potsdamer Chaussee) there is also a memorial garden here
There are other communal graves in other cemeteries .
Web links
- City magazine Langenhagen (from March 11, 2008) (PDF file; 208 kB)
- Cemetery flat share against anonymity - Berliner Zeitung (from November 8, 2007)