Municipal cemetery
A communal cemetery or municipal cemetery is a public institution and, in contrast to denominational cemeteries, is operated by the state municipality in its capacity as cemetery operator.
tasks
It serves to fulfill the burial obligation for the deceased community residents, while members of the corresponding denomination are usually buried in denominational cemeteries. In Germany, the burial of members of the Muslim community in municipal cemeteries has so far been the exception.
In Germany, the details of the provision of cemeteries, the requirements for their condition or rest periods are regulated in the funeral laws of the federal states. Municipal cemetery statutes or ordinances determine, for example, the preparation and implementation of the burial, the layout and design of the grave sites or the opening times and usage fees at municipal cemeteries.
In Germany, the cemetery system is one of the so-called "common affairs" of the state and religious communities (so-called res mixta ) because there is often a need for religious funeral ceremonies in communal cemeteries.
Examples
- Aplerbeck municipal cemetery, cemetery in Dortmund, Germany
- Salzburger Kommunalfriedhof , cemetery in Salzburg, Austria
- Kommunalfriedhof Wandlitz , cemetery in Wandlitz, Germany
- Municipal cemetery Witten-Annen , cemetery in Witten - Annen , Germany
See also
- Article 140 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany on the relationship between state and church
Web links
- Peter Mösgen: Introduction to Canon Law July 1996
- Municipal cemetery aplerbeck-damals.de. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
- Bylaws of the Kirchhundem community on the communal cemetery in Kirchhundem (cemetery statutes) dated June 24, 2004
- Cemetery fee statute of the city of Emmerich am Rhein from December 11, 2013
- Church law on cemeteries (Friedhofsgesetz) of November 7, 1992 (KABl. P. 202, KABl. 1993 p. 27, ABl. EKD 1993 p. 93 No. 47) of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia
Individual evidence
- ↑ BVerwG, judgment of May 13, 2004 - 3 C 26.03
- ↑ Answer of the Federal Government to the big question of the delegates Josef Philip Winkler u. a. and the parliamentary group BÜNDNIS90 / Die Grünen, BT-Drucksache Nr.16 / 2085 ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of June 29, 2006 “Status of the legal equality of Islam in Germany”, p. 21 ff. on the special requirements for burials according to the Islamic rite
