Hereditary funeral
A hereditary burial (also hereditary burial site , official abbreviation in the German Erbbgr. Grundkarte ) or a burial place is a specific place that a family or a gender has the hereditary right to use to bury the remains of their deceased members.
purpose
Generally, coffins and / or urns from one or a few families are buried there over a long period of time . The term thus relates to the function of a tomb, but not to its design. A hereditary burial can, for example, be laid out as an earth grave, crypt or mausoleum ; both single and multiple burials are possible. In a broader sense, the term refers to the burial place of a family (Latin: sepulcrum patrium , tumulus gentilicius , sepulcrum familiare ).
place
The place can either be on a large church or public cemetery or far away from it, in this case the hereditary burial sites require a corresponding permit due to the cemetery compulsory and they are on the German base map with the abbreviation Erbbgr. recorded. Hereditary burials of princely and noble families can usually be found in monasteries and churches founded by them. The families of the city patriciate bought their own burial chapels in the churches of the cities.
Right of use
Insofar as a limited period of use was agreed in public cemeteries, this can or could be renewed by the family members before their expiry against appropriate payment or other remuneration in order to continue to use the grave site as such. In parts of Lower Saxony , the term Beweinkaufung is still used today for the extension of the right to use a family grave site with various grave sites.
Some cities and municipalities in Germany have given the owners of such areas a right of use, which expires after a certain period of time (e.g. 100 years). In the city of Velten, for example, these rights of use expired in 2012, at which point the area became the property of the city and no further burials were allowed there afterwards.
Hereditary funeral in literature
The Bible speaks of a hereditary burial several times.
Theodor Fontane's poem My Graves begins with the following lines:
"No hereditary burial delights me with pride,
My graves are widely scattered,
Far scattered over town and country,
But all in the sand of Brandenburg."
Known hereditary burial sites
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- Hereditary burial place of the von Treskow-Friedrichsfelde family
- Cash register in Weimar
- Hereditary burial place of the Beringer family
- Princely crypt , generally a hereditary burial place of (former) princely families
- Knoop mausoleum of the family of the textile merchant Baron Knoop in the Waller Friedhof in Bremen
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 5, Leipzig, 1906, p. 887.
- ^ Karl Ernst Georges: Small German-Latin Concise Dictionary, Hanover and Leipzig, 1910 (reprint Darmstadt 1999), Sp. 772.
- ^ City of Velten
- ↑ Gen. 23.4; 23.9; 23.20; 49.30; 50.13
- ↑ Homepage with selected poems ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ https://www.denkmalpflege.bremen.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=2080
