Historical Cemeteries
HISTORICAL CEMETARIES
We all know her, we have all been there before and we usually feel contrary . Cemeteries are not always places you like to visit, yet they attract us. Because here the memories are close together - who knows the names, who has cried for his sweethearth, who does not want to forget and who can often come to these places of remembrance. Not a few cemeteries were created during the great pandemics of the last 600 years, when a large number of who had died of the plague had to be brought quickly under the earth before the gates of the city.And also because the relatives of the buried long-dead, because many pedigrees are long past, expire the graves more and more. The cemetery facilities serve as a recreational area for the citizens and retreat for animals, rare plants have settled here.
PLACES OF REMEMBRANCE
Cemeteries are a place of dignity, silence, transience, but also of eternity, which sometimes reveal a lot about the village and city history through their personalities. Many communities advertise the day of the cemetery. This is intended to raise awareness, but also to highlight the importance of public space. For photographers, cemeteries with their tombs, their geometry, the details of grave decorations and much more are rich in emotional motives. They combine melancholy, dignity and beauty with the great theme of transience. At the same time they are witnesses of the time and our culture. It is worth to visit these places.
BEHAVIOR
In graveyard photography, it is very important not to forget where you are in a search for a great subject in a place where people grieve for their deceased relatives or friends. This is and always will be more important than any picture that could possibly arise. That means in plain language: Never disturb the peace of the place or a person who is in the cemetery. Stay basically inconspicuous, restrained and act in the background. Avoid the photo when someone is in the immediate vicinity and leave the cemetery - or the area for very large facilities - when a funeral is taking place. Then move your plan to another day so as not to disturb anyone.
Stay on the paths and never enter a grave - instead, pay respect and respect to each burial place. This is especially true for cemeteries that are in operation and have young graves. In very old cemeteries, which are dilapidated, wild and on which the individual graves are hardly distinguishable from each other, one can see that a little more generously, even if of course the site itself should be respected.Cementary and Graveyards, I visited
Here are some pictures I brought back from my field trips. Places of silence and history.
Stiepel Village Church
Around the village church in Stiepel there is a beautiful historical cemetery, where for centuries almost only family tombs have been buried, most recently in 1928. The oldest surviving tombstone dates from 1600.
Skagerrak Memorial
Those who remained at sea do not have a cemetery. But here in Denmark, the victims of the greatest sea battle are remembered with this memorial site.
Old jewish cementary
Jewish cemeteries often appear very neglected to non-Jewish visitors. Since the cemetery is supposed to symbolize the transience of human beings, nature is usually given free rein, but it is cared for in its entirety so that it represents a worthy place for the dead.
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