Museum cemetery (Kramsach)

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Exhibit: Johanna Vogelsang is silent here, she chirped all her life
Exhibit: Here lies my wife, thank God, she often quarreled with me. O dear wanderer, leave here at once - otherwise she will get up and quarrel with you.

The museum cemetery is a private open-air museum in Kramsach in Tyrol , which is dedicated to tombs . It was founded by the blacksmith and stonemason Hans Guggenberger in 1965. Its main attraction are iron crosses with humorous sayings that were mainly collected from the German-speaking Alpine region. The often bizarre, cheerful and unrespectful inscriptions attract more than 200,000 visitors every year.

history

The museum cemetery was founded in 1965 by Hans Guggenberger. His father, also a blacksmith, collected grave crosses from disbanded family graves, primarily to preserve the blacksmithing of these old crosses. To date, Guggenberger has collected more than 900 grave crosses, around 60 of which are on display. Most of them come from Bavaria and Tyrol from the 18th and 19th centuries. These have been acquired and restored.

The fact that they usually lack piety and bluntly and ironically point out the cause of death or lack of character of the deceased contribute to the amusement . Guggenberger describes some of the grave crosses as "the shortest résumé you can imagine". It is emphasized that these are actually authentic, historical grave crosses and martyrs .

In 2000 the association “Museumsfriedhof Tirol” was founded. In 2011 and 2013 the museum cemetery was expanded.

Inscriptions (examples, sic )

  • If the felling started in the forest,
love work i did.
A quick death hits me too
a falling tree immediately killed me.
  • Under that lawn
lies the drunk coppersmith noses
  • He measured seven shoes
God give him eternal rest
an unfortunate poke of oxen
opened the sky castle for him
  • The honorable and virtuous virgin Genovefa Foggenhuberin rests
mourned by her only son
  • The venerable virgin Notburga Nindl is buried here ,
she died in the seventeenth year,
just when it was ready for use
  • Here lies the maiden Rosalind,
born as an unwanted child.
Your unknown father
was a Capuchin priest
  • Vitus Pichler and his 3 wives rest
  • Here lies the honorable young man Raserer, who died in the 75th year of his age.
  • Here Jakob Hosenknopf fell from the roof into eternity
  • Jakob Krug is here
who beat children, wife and organ.
  • Death with its bones
stabbed Johann Stembo.

literature

  • Martin Reiter: The funny cemetery: exhibition catalog. Museum cemetery Tyrol. Verlag Edition Tirol, St. Gertraudi 2003, ISBN 3-85361-87-0 .
  • Bernhard Liensberger as guest at the… cemetery without dead, the unique Kramsach museum cemetery. In: Dolomites. 23/24 March 2013, p. 24 (digitized version)
  • The cemetery without dead - Museum cemetery Tirol. DVD, Bogner Records, 2006
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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Cemetery without dead" is expanded. Broadcast by Austrian Broadcasting Corporation on April 11, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b Martin Cyris: Grave Cross Museum in Tyrol: A cemetery to die for. In: SpiegelReise. November 1, 2013. (spiegel.de)

Coordinates: 47 ° 26 '6 "  N , 11 ° 52' 13.4"  E