The Flame (magazine)
Die Flamme was a monthly magazine for the members of the Association for Cremation in Berlin, which initiated the construction of the Wedding crematorium . It appeared from 1884 to 1942, until 1939 with the addition "Journal for the Promotion of Cremation at home and abroad". A previous magazine was published under the name “Die Neue Flamme”.
The magazine was dedicated to the purpose of the association to promote and establish cremation and today serves as a source of research on the change in burial culture at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. In the first edition it says programmatically: “The friends of cremation do not want to force anyone into the flame furnace, but if the thought of the damp, cold earth and the slow mold seem unbearable and disgusting to us, we also ask for the optional cremation r us [i. Orig. Emphasized] freedom, and since one can never prove to us that our feeling is inhuman, the form of burial we strive for is harmful to the common, our striving is illegal, we stand on an unshakable legal ground. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ GVK - Common Union Catalog - 2.1. In: gso.gbv.de. Retrieved May 22, 2016 .
- ↑ On the historical development of the crematorium. In: www.postmortal.de. Retrieved May 22, 2016 .