The famous people may get embalmed in Germany. Because there grave will stay for a long time. In my home town there were still graves from the 1800's. I can remember they talked about it to remove it because there was no space. Even now some graves are only keep for 5 years. If the family like to keep it longer they have to pay a fee. A grave in Germany is different as in the States. Here in the States you have a plot with a marker or stone. In Germany is like a small flower-bed. You plant it with flowers in the spring, than you plant new flowers in the beginning of the summer and then in the fall it is covered with fir. There always real flowers on the grave. So long there are flowers on the graves you have to water it in the summer time every evening. It is work there to keep up the grave. When the other family members pass away, who will take care of the grave then? If the grave has no care and no one is renew the lease. They do away with it. I pay still for my Parents grave side in Germany and I have a flower shop taking care of the grave. One of this day I am not going to be there, then the grave is gone too. Katharina > >Hi, >I just joined this very informative list since I am just beginning a >geneological search for Schaefer roots. 32 years ago I went to >Witterschlick (a suburb of Bonn) with my family. We looked at graves >there and didn't find a single relative. Now I know why! > >How long has Germany used this method of turning graves? When did >embalming stop, were embalming methods ever used? > >Thanks! >Sue Schafer >(I just found out the original spelling two weeks ago.) > > _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

<<The famous people may get embalmed in Germany. Because there grave will stay for a long time.>> But nobody will see them down in the earth <vbg>. No they are not. By the way, nowadays about 50 percent (my rough guess) of the people are cremated anyway. _________________________ Heinz L. Zulauf Flotowstrasse 9 D-64287 Darmstadt Germany e-mail: [email protected] Visit my Private Homepage "The Classical Music Site" http://myweb.vector.ch/zulauf _________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Katharina Hines" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 9:53 PM Subject: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] graves in Germany > The famous people may get embalmed in Germany. Because there grave will stay > for a long time. > In my home town there were still graves from the 1800's. > I can remember they talked about it to remove it because there was no space. > Even now some graves are only keep for 5 years. If the family like to keep > it longer they have to pay a fee. > A grave in Germany is different as in the States. > Here in the States you have a plot with a marker or stone. > In Germany is like a small flower-bed. You plant it with flowers in the > spring, than you plant new flowers in the beginning of the summer > and then in the fall it is covered with fir. There always real flowers on > the grave. > So long there are flowers on the graves you have to water it in the summer > time every evening. It is work there to keep up the grave. > When the other family members pass away, who will take care of the grave > then? If the grave has no care and no one is renew the lease. They do away > with it. I pay still for my Parents grave side in Germany and I have > a flower shop taking care of the grave. One of this day I am not going to be > there, then the grave is gone too. > > Katharina > > > > > > > > >Hi, > >I just joined this very informative list since I am just beginning a > >geneological search for Schaefer roots. 32 years ago I went to > >Witterschlick (a suburb of Bonn) with my family. We looked at graves > >there and didn't find a single relative. Now I know why! > > > >How long has Germany used this method of turning graves? When did > >embalming stop, were embalming methods ever used? > > > >Thanks! > >Sue Schafer > >(I just found out the original spelling two weeks ago.) > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ _________ > Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com >