Have just looked over all these 80 comments, but not found this: Friedhof is a compound word made out of "Frieden" = Peace and "Hof" = yard. So its not the graveyard, the yard of graves, but the yard of peace. Yard in this case stands clearly for a 'safe space', a enclosed and therefore protected area. Our "Friedhof" is a safe enclosed area of (neverending, everlasting) peace.
The correct etymology behind the word "Friedhof" is a bit different. It is indeed a medieval compond word "vrīthof" meaning a "hof" i.e. a yard that is "eingefriedet". "Eingefriedet" has the meaning "protected (by a fence or sth.)" The newer explanation "Ort der Ruhe und des Frieden" was added later in the public understanding. It is nevertheless a beautiful explanation.
@@SteffenBuchertDesign You are right regarding the 'real' etymology, the origin of that word. Same with "Feierabend" which is nowerdays a compound word out of "Feier" = party and "Abend" = evening. But the origin dates way back to virabent, which has the meaning of "Vorabend", the eve before a holyday. Word shifted as well as the meaning did.
@@peter_althoff Usually the relatives pay a small fee. I visited the graves of my grandparents few days ago and lit a candle too. My granddad died 60 years ago.
All Saints Day is a catholic day and a holiday in the south. Here in the north we have the reformation day on the 31. october as a holiday. In November we share the Dead Sunday (remember our fallen and killed people durind wars) and a week later the eternity Sunday for our family members.
Catholics celebrate All Saints' Day, which is a public holiday in most federal states with a Catholic majority. Both Catholics and Protestants honor their deceased on Totensonntag (Sunday of the Dead), which is not war-related, unlike Poppy Day. The National Day of Mourning (Volkstrauertag) is observed in Germany to remember the victims of any war and tyranny, not restricted to a specific country or time, typically two Sundays before the first Sunday of Advent. In contrast, Totensonntag is celebrated on the last Sunday of the church year, often around November 24. These three holidays are considered "silent holidays," with stricter regulations regarding quietness than on other public holidays. Reformation Day commemorates Martin Luther and the beginning of the Protestant movement, rather than honoring the deceased.
On those public holidays (Reformation Day in Protestant regions and All Saints Day in Catholic areas) of course all shops are closed with the exception of flower shops near graveyards.
It’s not : dead Sunday , it’s the dead‘s Sunday/ Sunday of the dead . Rememberence day for those who are gone , who have fallen in the wars but also loved ones.
I can say it for the south of bavaria. Every grave on a Friedhof is maintained and lovely decorated with autumn flowers and arrangements for Allerheiligen. Some people spend hours, days for this beautiful work in a silent and peaceful area, sometimes smalltalk with anyone and thinking and remembering of the loved but gone ones. For sure there are people who takes that tradition as a burden and for showtime, but for most people is Allerheiligen real. A day for the family to remember
Not only shops are closed, All Saints Day is a „quiet“ holiday by state legislation, which regularly means that public dancing or sport events, music at inns (if live or if not much quieter than usual) etc. are prohibited.
When i was in the clinic for ed I used to go to the cementary next door a lot just to sit there, enjoy the view and have some peace and quiet reading time. As the girl said our cemeteries are more like parks so spending time there is very soothing. My hometown has a huge forest cemetery with a big open space at the far back. A HUGE war memorial is placed there. You can climb up and have a beautiful view of the forest and grassy hill side. As kids we played a lot there and noone ever thought it was disrespectful. Quite the opposite i love that we dont abandon these spaces and much rather come together there
If you get the chance: Have a walk at night over a german graveyard at the evening of Allerheiligen or Easter. The atmosphere of silent and candles is just stunning peaceful.
Sorry to clarify this: When there's no relatives taking care of the grave, there are hired gardeners who do it. And they get payed by the relatives. If noone cares or pays, the grave is dug and gets sold to someone else.
The traditional cemeteries with burial in the ground in German-speaking countries are also slowly becoming fewer and the graves used to be better cared for. There is a trend towards cremation, as it is the cleaner solution. And there is a trend towards burying the urn in a “cemetery forest”, usually anonymous, where the trees are numbered and only the next of kin know the location of the grave to remember the deceased.
It is not only the 'cleaner' solution, but gives more time to the family. Without cremation the dead person has to be buried within one week after death, which is quite a short time to get everything managed. (Buy the grave, organize everything, inform and invite friends...) After cremation one has 3 to 6 month (depending were in Germany, Bavaria: 3, NRW: 6 month) till the burial has to take place.
The friedhof in this Video is like "standard" but there are even more beautiful Friedhöfe. The older they are, the beatuifuller. I had a Job in Altenburg, a German town known for there Playingcards, and the Friedhof there is so wunderfull. Like an 300 hundred years old park. I spended my breaks there in Summer. Sitting under a 200 years old oak and eating my Pausenbrot. If you are quiet nobody will be bothered. Normally the Family comes regularly to make the "Grabpflege" (the cleaning up and planting new plants wich belongs into the Season). As a child I wondered what this hustele and bustle was about but as a grown up I appreciate this ritual. it feels like being a little connected to my dear lost ones. My Aunt is a rose fan and she planted a lot on our Familygrave. So it looks like a blooming-bomb for the hole summertime. Full of roses and you can see it from far away. (they are really huge now) She is very proud about this and takes the Grabpflege very searious. For her, not care about the Grave, ist like being disrespectful against our ancestors.
Spring is the most beautiful time. Every grave has the most beautiful and colorful flowers. We regularly visit Grandpa (Opi)and Dad (Vati) and leave greetings in the form of candles. And of course kisses ❤❤
@@connycatlady7429 er liest meist nicht die YT Kommentare. Ich habe nur YT. Deshalb weiss ich nicht wie er zu erreichen ist. Mit den Musikvideos klappt das ja auf anderen Anbietern
@@diedruidin Gute Frau - das "St." steht für Sankt, das klingt schon ziemlich katholisch, oder? Damit ist der katholische Martin von Tours gemeint (der eigentlich nie heilig gesprochen wurde, aber das ist ne andere Geschichte). Martin von Tours ist der mit dem "geteilten Mantel" und er war war römischer Soldat, bevor er Bischof wurde - deswegen wird er oft als Reiter dargestellt. Er wurde am 11. November begraben und deswegen gibt's an diesem Datum viele Bräuche um ihn, und es wurde der Martinstag. Martin Luther nun wurde am 10. November geboren - und in protestantischen Gegenden wurden daher einige Bräuche des katholischen Martins umgewandelt und am 10. November begangen. Ich stamme aus dem Weserbergland, und dort gibt es viele "gemischte" Regionen. Katholische Umzüge haben meist einen Reiter dabei, evangelische eher nicht. Und es gibt das Martinssingen sowohl evangelisch als auch katholisch, wo Kinder klingeln und gegen Singen eines Liedes Süßigkeiten bekommen (manch schlaue Kinder sollen angeblich am 10. UND 11. singen, sie müssen sich halt nur ans richtige Lied erinnern...).
One day you need to visit Hamburg Ohlsdorf - been there once, and it was mindblowing! Its a huge park, people go there on sunny days for picknick, and in between, every now and then beautiful graves, gorgeous sculpures at it, and in May/June the huge hdges from rhododenrons are flowering. Hope I remember correctly, it's that huge, it's served by 2 buslines running within it
There is actually a german tradition in the upper southwest part of germany, mainly the Saarland, Palatine next to it and a bit into France of Lothringen that predates todays Halloween. A rather rural tradition. The kids would get big rubes or beets (Runkel- or Futterrübe), mainly used as fodder for the livestock, and carve them out with grim faces similar to a pumpkin. Those carvings would be much more rudimentary, because the beet is quite hard. A candle was placed inside, it was put on a stick, finished with an old white blanket underneath. The kids would go from house to house, singing songs and make the "Rummelbooz" peek into the windows to scare the people or children inside. They´d do this right into the first week of november when darkness would come early with mists and clouds.
About 15 years ago I researched where a similar tradition in my hometown(little town in Hesse) came from and now that you mentioned it and the more I think about this the more it seems like anglocentrism stroke again and what is Halloween/Samhain today could actually have it's origins here in continental Europe and not in Ireland. The tradition you mentioned once had it's hot spot in the black forest area and is still somehwat alive in some towns across germany. In germany this tradition reached into Hesse and can also be found in some spots in Thuringa, Poland and Czechia. I never bothered to research how far it went into france since I couldn't read the french sources, though. And apparently Celts once also lived in the black forest area and Irish Celts came from continental Europe. Hmmmmmmmm...... Coincidence?
If you come to visit Hamburg one day, so you can take a beautiful walk at the world biggest "Parkfriedhof" ( a graveyard in park-form). It's such a peaceful and interesting, big, famous... graveyard. It's so big, that you can drive by bus. You shouldn't miss that, if you are interested in beautiful graveyards.
In Wien (Vienna/Austria) there is a great Friedhof-culture as well. There is even a famous song about the central graveyard of Vienna: "Es lebe der Zentralfriedhof" (Long live the central graveyard) by Wolfgang Ambros. Might be quite a different song to look into. Its in the austrian (Vienna) dialect, so you would need to find the 'normal' german lyrics, to get them translated into english. (I checked out the translation of the lyrics given at a website called FENDRICH and these work out great for a english translation)
Allerheiligen is NOT Halloween. it is on the 01.of November. Halloween is on the 31.of october... also Halloween is something people in Germany only started to celebrate within the past 20years. it is not a German tradition. Allerheiligen is achurch holliday halloween is a pegan (celtic) holliday...
While All Saints' Day is indeed a significant Catholic holiday. However, it actually has roots in pre-Christian traditions, particularly Celtic and Roman customs. The celebration of Samhain marked the end of harvest and honored the dead, with beliefs about the veil between the living and the deceased being thinned. When Christianity spread, many of these practices were integrated into the church's observances. Interestingly, Halloween actually means All Hallows' Eve, referring to the evening before All Saints' Day. So, there’s definitely a historical connection between All Saints' Day and Halloween!
@@renate_c4h You forgot to mention the Goddess who rules "Hellheim" where all the Souls went to if they don't died in a battle😉 She is collecting the Souls in the Night between 31.10 and 1.11. May you know her under the name "Frau Holle" 😇
The city of Hamburg has the Ohlsdorf Friedhof, which is a gigantic park with rivers, a lake, monuments upon monuments and all sorts of plants, which is divided into lots of different graveyard sections. This graveyard has in fact 22 bus stops within it, as it is so huge xD It's lovely there, especially once you're deep in the park, to soak up the atmosphere. Allerheiligen is more of a catholic, thus southern German tradition, by the way. The culture around graves is present in northern Germany as well, but I feel like, the more southern and catholic you go, the more taken care of and the more beautiful and extravagant the graves look (i.e. Austria, Italy). Northern Germans do not get that holiday off, they do however on the 31. of October, for the aniversary of Martin Luther's reformation, depending on the state, only from since a couple of decades ago, to some years ago (honestly because people wanted to have the free day on/around Halloween as well, lol).
When I was a kid, I would go to the graveyard with my grandmother or great-aunt once a week to take care of the graves. We would plant flowers, clean the headstones, even draw motives into the soil with a small rake... And on Allerheiligen, everybody would put special candles with lids on the graves, it looked beautiful in the dark. Too bad she didn't go there at night!
Not in all Germany we have actually a day off at Allerheiligen or Reformationstag, in Berlin for example we do not in Brandenburg (the state surrounding Berlin) they do. Fun fact: Berlin is actually the state with the fewest public holidays.
The red and white candles are placed on the graves as a symbol for the eternal flame. So they‘ll never be forgotten and the spirits live until eternity.
The most famous and largest Cemetery of Austria is in Vienna and is called Zentralfriedhof. There is also a song about it by Wolfgang Ambros. Listen to it, it's called Zentralfriedhof 😊
If you are visiting Cologne, then it is worth taking a walk through the Melaten Cemetery. This is a huge park with new but also historic graves. Years ago I was in London at Highgate Cemetery. I was particularly impressed by the old part, which can only be visited as part of a guided tour.
We visit the graveyard every year on All saints day. But we go when its dark already. The lit up candles are so lovely in the dark. Its a very special feeling then
You don't pay a grave with taxes. You have to pay seperately. Grave rent (e. g. 20 years), flowers etc. Most families maintain the graves on their own.
Halloween inportant for comerce! Reformation Day important for mankind! No wonder, what's more important for us. But i wonder it's not more important for US americans, when looking at the major religion and reasons why the europeans moved to north america?!.....🤔 🤷 Btw. Actually we have "Totensonntag" in november, before the Christmas season officially starts.
The people who make graves look nice are called cemetery gardeners. A friend of mine is a cemetery gardener, it's a quiet and pleasant job. I'm a landscape gardener, I chose more chaos. I honestly have no idea who pays the cemetery gardeners but my friend gets paid pretty well. He works in a cemetery in Hamburg. Yes, England’s graves may not be so beautiful, but imagine if Scrooge had seen a beautifully with flowers maintained gravestone with his name at the end, that would not have had the same effect😂
Trend goes to cremation bc of costs. The law says you need to be burried in a graveyard, that also includes urns. Many people now choose alternative graveyards that have come up in the last decades like special sections of a forest (Friedwald). Urns will be burried underneath a tree and only the loved ones will remember where it is bc it is unmarked. My parents and grandparents chose such options for themselves because they didn't want to burden their children with taking care of a grave for 25 years. Must say we're from the eastern part of Germany and had never so much as heard of all saints day. I also like the graveyards but the costs for a grave and upkeep of it and the gravestone are outrageous. Also your grave will be turned into someone else's grave after 25 years bc graveyards often don't have room to grow.
This bus stop is also for people with dementia. Very importend for the once, living centurys in the past. They sit there and waiting for Daddy or husbund is coming home for example and they calm down. We have these busstops often near by hospitals and in parcs
Normally, there are no bus stops inside graveyards. There are however bus stops where no bus comes along, which are inside or near facilities that look after people with dementia for those people often wanting to leave and go home, and if they went missing you find them at the fake bus stop waiting for the bus for hours not realizing how long they have been waiting and that the bus won't come, which is much more save for them and easier to find them. Because it works so well you can even be more open and don't give them the feeling to be locked away.
Here in Berlin we don't celebrating All Saints yet. But we remembering at ,,Totensonntag", which means ,,Sundayof the dead". Its ever at the end of November. One week before first Advent. It' s a Tradition to visiting the graves of your loved ones and take care of the graves and put a candle for remembering.
The old graveyard in Freiburg is now a beautiful park. It is under monument protection. The last one was buried there about 1872 in the morning, at afternoon the first burring in the new main cementery.
If you visit Munich, you should see the Alten Südfriedhof (Old South Cemetery). It's really old and stunning, especially in spring. Or the Waldfriedhof, which is essentially a forest with graves in it. Amazing!
We live in a house that has a very long driveway to the street, and there are many old trees on the property. We decorate the house for Halloween and light it with torches so that the local children can see that there is something sweet here, and at least 50+ children come every year. A few years ago I dressed up in a cape and put on a Chewbacca mask (the ape-like one from Star Wars). Then I hid behind a tree and when a large group of children came to the front door I jumped out and screamed like a madman. Years have passed since then and no child has ever come to our house again.
All Saints' Day is a Catholic holiday on November 1st of each year. On All Saints' Day, Catholics remember their saints, that is, the people who lived faithfully and proclaimed the Christian message - and were canonized by the Pope for this. Allerheiligen ist ein katholischer Feiertag am 1. November jedes Jahres. An Allerheiligen gedenken die Katholik*innen ihrer Heiligen, also der Menschen, die gläubig gelebt und die christliche Botschaft verkündet haben - und dafür vom Papst heiliggesprochen wurden.
In German cemeteries, some are looked after by cemetery gardeners. There are signs on the grave saying who does what. The signs with a P belong to private individuals, i.e. family members. U stands for entertainment and are looked after by the cemetery gardeners. PU stands for private and U/entertainment is sometimes looked after by families and cemetery gardeners.
Hey Dwayne, that with the children hurts me to😢. We always on 1. November go to the cemetery and bring the light to the graves. And I love to go to the cemetery at this day at the evening. Lots of red Lights. Incredible. Greetings from Bavaria, Moni
Allerheiligen is a holiday in the Catholic Church's liturgical year. A memorial service is held for the dead, often in the cemetery. The priest preaches and visits all the graves of the relatives present if they want and blesses the grave with holy water. The relatives light a soul light (which is also done throughout the year) which symbolizes eternal life after death.🕯✝🙏On this day, the priest wears white, the color of light.
Allerheiligen - very old celtic tradtion called Samhein - they believed , that the wall to the world of the dead in this time is very thin... the church took this tradition over from the "paigans" to bound them to their church as many other traditions ,they also took over
I never heard that others take care of the grave when there is nobody to take care! There is a fee that you have to pay for taking care of the yard, not the graves, when the fee isnt covered they simply resale the grave to others and clear the area up. Its like with you stuff, if there is no one that can get it, it belongs to the state and they will dump everything after the official is done with looking for things that are worth selling. You disappear! Others take over and they take care, but not for you, you are then nothing more than a social security number, never again being used. Maybe there are some people cleaning up, but they wont pay your fees. Normally the fee is payed for several years, so, when the time is over, its gone!
In the south the grannys and moms try to outdo each other on Allerheiligen. You'll see fresh arrangements with Roses, or ornatly planted graves. The special black grave earth sieved so there are no clumbs of earth. And nope it's not taxes that pay for the decor it's the familys spending money and considered well spent. If a grave is "abandoned" because their is no family near the grave is alive anymore a Friedhofsgärtner (cemetery gardener) will be hired by the rest of the family and they will pay for the grave till the lease is up. If there isn't realy anybody anymore at least at all saints day it's likely some stranger will take pity and clean up the grave a bit and bring a candle and flowers. A family grave isn't necessarily a grave were a whole family is burried but an "ongoing project". You rent a big grave and if someone in your family dies it's their final restingplace. The next family member dies, the will be laid next or above the first one. And so on. We have a grave taken over from my grandma's sister and her husband who died early. Then my granny, grandad and father ended up there. The more graves you have to rent the more expensive it gets so a family grave is an affordable option. Familymembers don't mind to share or care. All names will be placed on the headstone. Sometimes
Only three days until "Allerheiligen" ... we've been to the graveyard today! Cleaned everything up already, putted down some nice flower-stuff and arranged everything with new candles, etc ... :) *rip
Allsaintsday is only a public holiday in mostly catholic states in Germany. The protestant states celebrate reformation day (October 31st) and it is a public holiday there. So you have either October 31st or November 1st as public holiday, depending on which part of Germany you live in.
What I have found in my holidays in the UK was just shocking to me tbh. When I arrived in Southampton i was visiting the graveyard where most of the Titanic victims were buried and there also were new graves that were around 2 years old and all of em were abandoned and nobody cared for them and there’s my idea then, what if gave homeless ppl a job by making them take care of the graves? Ppl need a job and homes and we should also care for the graves to honour our loved ones. Oh and there’s a graveyard in Hamburg that has streets and bus stops and even a café because it’s so big. It rly is beautiful and you get your daily steps easily 😅
Halloween, or Hallowe'en[7][8] (less commonly known as Allhalloween,[9] All Hallows' Eve,[10] or All Saints' Eve),[11] is a celebration observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. It is at the beginning of the observance of Allhallowtide,[12] the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed.[ en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween
Ha ha 😂 Die Christen wieder streiten sich um des Kaisers Bart, glauben die Welt wurde erst erfunden mit dem Zimmermann aus Galilea😂 (Die Göttin Hell, auch genannt Frau Hulda oder auch Frau Holle, sammelte mit der "wilden Jagd" die Seelen der über das Jahr nicht in der Schlacht gefallenen und führte diese nach Hellheim dem Totenreich) Woher kommt die von Missionaren geprägte Bezeichnung "Hölle", skandinavische Bezeichnung "Hellvegen" wohl? Über alle Heidnischen Stätten und Feiern wurde ein anderes Label geklebt, weil den Menschen die Gelegenheit zum Feiern zu nehmen wäre nicht effizient gewesen. Und man setzte auf das anektieren und vergessen in späteren Generationen - Hat ja bei manchen funktioniert 🤣🤣🤣
Wir haben ein Familiengrab. Dort liegen meine Eltern, Großeltern, Urgroßeltern ein Großonkel und der 2. Mann meiner Großmutter. Allerheiligen ist ein großer katholischer Feiertag, die ganze Familie kommt zum Grab. Niemand will sich mit einem ungepflegten Grab blamieren. Die gezeigten Gräber sind mittlerer Durchschnitt. Es gibt Leute die eskalieren, und geben hunderte von Euros aus.
As a teenager, I actually went to our local graveyard quite often to sit on a bench and read in peace and quite with pretty surroundings. I also studied for exams there. We had a nice, big garden at home... But there was always the risk, that I'd have to empty the dishwasher, mow the lawn, take the dog for a walk. So the graveyard was the quiet and nice option away from all the chores :-D
Hello, here in Germany, cemeteries are often used as parks where you can sit and relax. Especially in big cities, they are sometimes the only green islands between all the concrete. Reinhard Mey wrote a beautiful song about the “Friedhof” (which is also the name of the song). ruclips.net/video/lTs8DdRyivQ/видео.html In Germany, it would be hard to imagine that graves would really decay or fall into disrepair. The last time I visited my mother, she had received an official request from the cemetery office (yes, something typically German!) to clean her mother's grave, otherwise a cemetery gardener appointed by the office would do it at her expense. When I visited the grave with her, there were exactly three tiny weed stalks growing at the edge of the grave. It took less than a minute to remove them. What's more, graves are often only leased and occupied for 20 years. After that, they are reconditioned and cleared for new burials. The trend at the moment is also towards anonymous burials. When my father and my brother died by chance last year on the same weekend just two days apart, we decided to do the same. The deceased are cremated and buried anonymously in a coal urn in a wooded area under a tree. Their names are then listed on a stone stele at the entrance to the forest.
2:37 That is not true. All Saints' Day is a Holyday only in 5 federal states out of 16 in Germany. So most of the germans have a normal work- or schoolday.
Hey, I'm Coming from the North of Germany, and for us is the last Sunday in November a Day to look after the people which passed away in our lives. The Sunday is called "Ewigkeitssonntag" (Eternal Sunday). In the Worship of your Church Community you hear all the names who passed away the last year. It's a great day to remember them all.
Our mandatory "Liegezeit"(which is the time the urn or casket has to remain in the ground) is 15 years. If relatives do not extent this period the remains (bones) will be collected, put back into the grave, covered up and the gravesite will be sold to another family. - When my aunt passed in 2012, I had to pay a gardener to look after the site and since I was the only inheritor I paid 7500.- Euro. My parents did it the smart way by picking their burial spot in "The Field Of The Anonymous". There is a beautiful statue and everyone can place little trinkets like angels, hearts or like I do, a large vase with silk flowers for every soul residing in that field. It is being cared for by the city gardeners.
Knew of a couple of people wich spent their lunchbreak on the 'Alte Friedhof' in Freiburg. In one small town near Heidelberg they buildt direct behind a playground. There where the Americans were stationed after the last war Halloween got popular and the kids just loved it (: So it's a bit different .. And now, especially those who come from a 1/2 1/2 family grew into this having their way to party AND honor our beloved ones♡
All Saints Day is also called „All Hallows Day“. Halloween = All Hallows Eve = the evening before. Halloween is originally Irish who were mostly catholic. Irish immigrants brought this tradition to america.
I don't know about Germany but in Austria there is something called..Ruhe or Liegezeit ..it means how long a Body lay down there. The Family Members pay for it..about 10, 15 or 20 Years. Not sure when but they have to burn the Rest afterwards to give it to the next. In general there are People working there. Garden, Sourroundings not the Grave Cleaning. So if nobody go there, nobody will really Remove the dry flowers or put new Flowers on the Grave..if there is Graveyard Earth and not only Stone. Maybe it is a bit different in Germany. Others Laws maybe. I can only tell about my Country.
All Saints Day in Germany is a Catholic holiday. Stores are closed only in Catholic areas, so the majority of shops will be open. Protestants have another day for remembering the dead, around the last Sunday in November.
Every year in Germany there are nine official national holidays as well as regional festivals that apply in certain federal states. This means that some federal states have more public holidays than others.
"My" graveyard is my "nearest park". I love it. It is huge: 50 ha (125 acre or 600.000yd²) and has 40.000 graves. Beside this it has lots of open areas, with meadows, lots of foresty areas and is just beautyfull. I started visiting it regularly while the 2020 pandemic, because it was one of few places to be in peace, without cops telling you, that it is against the law to sit on a bench! (which was the case in the early month of the pandemic). Back than I discovered its beauty. And all the animals living there. I met a fox-family and I loved to feed squirrels straight out of my hand. This year in spring I had to bury my father on this "Friedhof", so I got some more knowledge of the regulatories: I had to 'book' the grave for at least 10 years, but could as well book it for 20, 30, 100... It's 40 € each year, to be paied in advance for the whole time, which can be expaned every time. The grave might be 'used' by up to 6 'inhabitants'. I was advised, that I would be allowed to place a standing grave-stone, but not a lying one. But as well, that I could place nothing. If I would like to place a wooden cross, it has to be painted in certain environment-friendly colors. If I would like to plant any plants, I would have to build a bed that protrudes 15 cm above the surrounding area, i.e. create a raised planting bed. Why? Because all graves are sourrounded by grass and the gardeners that are mowing, need a clear sign were to stopp. I also would be allowed to do nothing. Than grass-sees would be placed, and the grave would become part of the meadow, without any notice of the person (my dad) buried there. Beside this I was told: "We are not strict at all. Do whatever you want as long as it is respectfull". So I could place a litte cup/bowl for squirrel-food or a self-painted stone or candles, pictures, artworks... I decided for some different flowers, placed and grouped in a way my dad would have liked it. An now I'm up to plant dozens of flower bulbs for the next spring, that will flower form february till may, when I will plant new flowers for the summer. Every grave around is different, Some people do quite nothing, others plant durable plants, that can stand the frosty winter, others change the flowers (like I do) every season. So: Beside the nice overall look of that Friedhof with all its meadows and little 'forests' and all the birds, squirrels, benches... it is a place were every singe one of these 40.000 graves looks different and changes its look throughout the year. There is allways a 'new' grave (or new designed), that can be spotted.
The day was not called (if you translate the Irish origin) All Saints Day. It was called All Halllows Day... and the evening before was formerly known as All Hallows Eve or (as you now say) Halloween. Bus stops are often set up (i.e. outside bus routes) for two reasons. 1) they provide protection from bad weather and 2) people with dementia are familiar with bus stops, often from their earliest youth. Just like cemeteries. And some municipalities try to offer such people a “contact point” from which they can be brought safely back to their place of residence. Many retirement homes also have bus stops in the immediate vicinity, even if there is no bus at all, for the above reason.
All Saints' Day will be celebrated on 1. november. 31. of October, we called "Revormationstag", where Luther reformed the church it`s a little bit differently 😇😊🤣
Halloween came from Ireland to the USA and from there back tu us. In Germany we have in the northern states (where they mostly are protestant/ evangelisch) on the 31.10. the Reformations Day, because Martin Luther pins his 95 theses on the portal of the castlechurch in Wittenberg on the 31. October 1517.
My father didn't want to keep family members responsible to care for his grave so he wanted to get creamated and the ash given to nature. But that's not leagel here in Germany as bodys have to be layed down in a graveyard. But we have a beatiful alternative here called "Friedwald" or "Ruhewald".My sister and me had his ash buried in one. It's a part of woodland declared as a graveyard and the urns are buried there between the roots of old trees.
Usually they pay all the bills to burry themselves. Some people invest in insurances to cover the costs of burial some even pay the gardener service fee in advance to don’t burden the relatives with the maintenance of the grave.
Irish immigrants brought Halloween to the US, during the Exodus of the great famine. In the rest of Europe its basically a commercial event due to the fact that about 20 years ago they were not allowed to celebrate karnival, so the Shops tried to sell the stuff half a year later. Its rediculous😮
I like english graveyards much more. I was about 16 years old, as i saw a really overgrown graveyard in England and i thought, that this is so beautiful. I thought here is life taking over again, while we freeze the state of death and mourning in germany
Allerheiligen is a calm holiday in most states of Germany. Halloween is not a German tradition. We have our own. On St. Martin's Day, kindergarten and elementary school children go through the community in a torchlight procession. Afterwards, they go through the town and ring people's doorbells. They sing a song and receive sweets in return.
Fun fact -- Allerheiligen (All Saints) is more of a Catholic tradition and a holiday; the various Protestant denominations follow pretty much the same customs with decorating graves and such, but it's done on the last Sunday in November -- Totensonntag/Ewigkeitssontag, or Sunday of/for the Dead/Eternity Sunday. It's the end of the ecclestiastical year, and is followed by the first Sunday of Advent the next week, starting the new ecclestiastical year. The Sunday before Totensonntag is Volkstrauertag, or Remembrance Day. All three are so-called "quiet" holidays, meaning no dancing, no fairs, no sporting events. During my childhood in the 1960s and 70s, not even radio or TV would broadcast "entertainment" -- it was all "serious", like classical music or dramatic plays with a message. Very dreary, and thankfully that's no longer the case, but you still wouldn't find a comedy performance, say, on public channels. (You can still go to the movies to watch whatever you want, though.) Another quiet holiday is Good Friday, just before Easter, and Christmas Eve also has some similar restrictions (but you can circumvent them by arranging a private party/celebration, even at a bar or restaurant ... as long as it's not open to the general public).
There is no German Halloween tradition although it's heavily promoted by retailers. You might see Kindergarten children and children from elementery school who dress up for Halloween but this is also depending on the social class. You might als see some party people. All Saints is only a holiday in 5 of 16 federal states in germany. Reformationday is a holiday in 9 of the 16 states. It depends on the former historic majority of protestants and catholics in those federal states and has nothing to do with todays religious affiliation. At the end of 2023, the Roman Catholic Church had 24.0% members, the Protestant churches had 21.9% members among the total population, with a heavily declining trend. The share of the largest single group, the non-denominational, was 46.2% at the end of 2023. So no, these holidays aren't common celebrated beside of people having a work free day.
“All Saints Day” is NOT a public holiday in ALL of Germany! The number of public holidays varies in the different federal states and also depends on whether they are Catholic or Protestant - Bavaria (12 days) and Saxony (11 days) have the most public holidays! Therefore, it regularly happens that people from federal states where shops are closed because of a public holiday drive to neighboring federal states where there is NO public holiday in order to be able to shop there!
We going all Sundays on the Cemetery to the Graves from our love ones Who Past away.that to a reason why no shops have open on the Sundays. This is what we doing if we see on a grave has been not done along time nothing done we take care about this Grave too
If you need to cheer yourself up now after thinking about relatives that passed away, check "Wenn ich en Engel bin - Kasalla" Its sung in the dialect of cologne and might be similar to dutch more than to german. There are 2 legendary guests in the video, an old woman and an old man. Both of them are living legends within the culture of cologne and our unique Karneval. And if you wanna know more about Karneval, there is so much tradition that doesnt get recognition outside of germany and karneval and "fasching" is celebrated all across west germany, in swizerland and northern italy (you know, the carneval of venice). We celebrate carneval in germany since the roman times, 2000 years ago. These traditions are still very lively and probably more lively than 2000 years ago, but with consume and expansion of a culture, there is also some respect and knowledge that gets lost and overlooked. Anyway, karneval is one of the biggest non christian traditions in germany and also the most forgotten one outside of germany. The music video is about a grave ceremony and the singers last wish.
Sorry, i love karneval :D Its currently close to the session opening 2024/2025. And the modern version of karneval (session-karneval) has its 200 year anniversary this season.
You could react to Reinhard Fendrich "I am from Austria," or Austria3 (Reinhard Fendrich, Georg Danzer and WolfgangAmbros) "I am from Austria" It's the unofficial national anthem 😂
Your Reactions to german Rap are so much on point and so good music choices. I think you would love Alligatoah, a very talented rapper, I would recommend "Du bist schön" oder "Monet" as songs, but he literally has no bad tracks. Personally, I would love to see you react on Kool Savas again, songs "Mona Lisa" or "Rapfilm". Sorry for so much suggestions, but I would also love to hear your thoughts on "Red Bull Sound Clash|KIZ versus Kraftclub| Ihr dürft nicht nach Berlin| because the athmosphere in thus vid was incredible. thank you for your work
There some graveyards in Germany , which are open partially for riding bikes at least in the bigger cities , at least you can take a walk and watch some awesome graveyards , just like in a museum
You still have to react to Zukunft Pink by Peter Fox!!! Because we are the third biggest music market in the world, behind Japan and USA! You could miss Bands like 'Von Wegen Lisbeth' with 'Wenn du tanzt'😊❤
In North Germany we don`t celebrate this day, because the major are protestant here. It is a catholic tradition, so it`s celebrated in South Germany, that is major catholic.
German holidays are complicated because of the federal structure, All Saints Day is only a holiday in federal states with mostly Catholic religion, mainly in the southern and western federal states and Reformation Day (day of remembrance of the Reformation of Martin Luther) on October 31 is a Protestant holiday and therefore a holiday in northern and eastern federal states, except Hesse and Berlin - they have neither. So in my Lutheran community, it is more common for the graves to be decorated for “Totensonntag” (Sunday in memory of the dead on the last Sunday before the start of Advent, after which the Christmas season traditionally begins). But it can also be different from region to region, I'm not a believer and have left the church, so I'm not a good source for this haha. But my home village also has a Catholic church and it's really nice to see how the graves are decorated.
Well, in my area there are a few, often ex-amricans that have something like a decoration. There are some Helloween parties in Clubs and Bars or so, but its more like beside thing that especially young people like to use as excuse for getting drunk. Sadly i cant even work in the Taxi at the moment since i am home for sick leave because of an Covid-19 infection. "Dont workout, take it easy and drink lots of tea if you can" said the doctor. So, i am playing on my PC and watching YT videos. And while i have to chill, lets fire it up and 420!
Hn, good to hear an outside perspective. I'd never would have called our "Friedhöfe" beautiful. I just think they are very German. I'll look at them differently now I think. Also, I once stumbled across a little cemetery in England in the early nineties. It was in a small town behind a very old little church. The sun had just set and it was slightly foggy. The stones were OLD. It was very mythical. That's what I thought UK graveyards to be from then on. Sad to hear it is a misconception. I also remembered my Dad telling me about Halloween in the US when I was a little kid in the seventies. I believe it was on Halloween. He told me when he was a kid in the thirties, they carved out big turnips (?) and put candles inside to ward off the evil spirits. Not a little kid spectacle though. They wouldn't have opened the door that night if someone had knocked.
Hi from Germany. my english is not that good, so please excuse the mistakes. The graves are cared for by family members themselves or they pay gardeners to do it. the German state pays nothing for it. There is no family neglecting the graves here either.
November is generally the month in which the dead are commemorated in Germany. All Saints' Day is not a public holiday in all federal states. In federal states with a predominantly Protestant population, Reformation Day is a public holiday. Reformation Day, Reformation Festival or Reformation Memorial Day is celebrated by Protestant Christians in Germany and Austria on 31 October to commemorate the beginning of the Reformation of the Church by Martin Luther in 1517. All Saints' Day (Latin: Sollemnitas Omnium Sanctorum) is a Christian feast day on which all saints are commemorated, the “glorified members of the Church who have already reached perfection”, both known and unknown. The feast is celebrated on 1 November in the Western Church and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in the Orthodox churches. The Protestant Church also celebrates the day of remembrance of the saints on 1 November. On All Souls' Day (Latin [Dies] in commemoratione omnium fidelium defunctorum, "Day of remembrance of all deceased believers") the Roman Catholic Church commemorates the memory of its deceased. The memory of all souls is celebrated as a high feast in the church year on November 2nd, one day after the high feast of All Saints' Day. The custom of All Souls' Day includes the blessing of graves in cemeteries. In some places this takes place on the following weekend, in countries where All Saints' Day is a public holiday, often on the afternoon of All Saints' Day. Remembrance Sunday or Eternity Sunday is a day of remembrance for the deceased in the Protestant churches in Germany and Switzerland. It is the last Sunday in the church year before the first Sunday of Advent. Due to the fixed location of the fourth Sunday of Advent before December 25th, it can only fall on dates from November 20th to 26th. Remembrance Day is a national day of remembrance in Germany and is one of the so-called silent days. The day of remembrance has been celebrated two Sundays before the first Sunday of Advent since 1952. A ceremony in the German Bundestag commemorates the victims of violence and war of all nations.
from my hometown: Ohlsdorf Cemetery (German: Ohlsdorfer Friedhof or (former) Hauptfriedhof Ohlsdorf) in the Ohlsdorf quarter of the city of Hamburg, Germany, is the biggest rural cemetery in the world[1] and the fourth-largest cemetery in the world.[2] Most of the people buried at the cemetery are civilians, but there is also a large number of victims of war from various nations.[3] The cemetery notably includes the Old Hamburg Memorial Cemetery (Althamburgischer Gedächtnisfriedhof, formerly Ehrenfriedhof) with the graves of many notable Hamburg citizens. In 1877 the Ohlsdorf Cemetery was established as a non-denominational and multi-regional burial site outside of Hamburg.[4] The cemetery has an area of 391 hectares (966 acres) with 12 chapels, over 1.5 million burials in more than 280,000 burial sites and streets with a length of 17 km (11 mi). There are 4 entrances for vehicles and public transport is provided with 25 bus stops of two bus lines of the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund.[5] The cemetery is not only used as a burial ground, but also as a recreational area and tourist attraction. With its impressive mausoleums, rhododendron bushes, its ponds and birds, sculptures and funerary museum, about two million people from all over the world visit the cemetery every year.[
Halloween, comes from " All Hallows ´Eve " (31. October), All Saints Day and Halloween are related, but in diffrent ways, All Saints Day is for the Roman Catholic and the Protestant Church actually on November 1. , but some diocese do it between 2. to 8. November. It has nothing to do with Christmas ! The Church couldn´t give every single Saint a special day, so they created in the 8th century the All Saints Day and the 1. November is also the beginning of the Celtic calendar, like Halloween is also related to Celtic culture. There is also a reason why they put Christmas on 24. December. If you look at the dates, for diffrent things, of the Orthodox Church, you can see there is a difference.
Have just looked over all these 80 comments, but not found this:
Friedhof is a compound word made out of "Frieden" = Peace and "Hof" = yard.
So its not the graveyard, the yard of graves, but the yard of peace. Yard in this case stands clearly for a 'safe space', a enclosed and therefore protected area.
Our "Friedhof" is a safe enclosed area of (neverending, everlasting) peace.
The correct etymology behind the word "Friedhof" is a bit different. It is indeed a medieval compond word "vrīthof" meaning a "hof" i.e. a yard that is "eingefriedet". "Eingefriedet" has the meaning "protected (by a fence or sth.)" The newer explanation "Ort der Ruhe und des Frieden" was added later in the public understanding. It is nevertheless a beautiful explanation.
@@SteffenBuchertDesign You are right regarding the 'real' etymology, the origin of that word.
Same with "Feierabend" which is nowerdays a compound word out of "Feier" = party and "Abend" = evening.
But the origin dates way back to virabent, which has the meaning of "Vorabend", the eve before a holyday.
Word shifted as well as the meaning did.
Depending on the location this "eternal peace" ends after 15 to 25 years (unless you are able or willing to pay more as in every buisness).
@@peter_althoff Usually the relatives pay a small fee. I visited the graves of my grandparents few days ago and lit a candle too. My granddad died 60 years ago.
All Saints Day is a catholic day and a holiday in the south. Here in the north we have the reformation day on the 31. october as a holiday. In November we share the Dead Sunday (remember our fallen and killed people durind wars) and a week later the eternity Sunday for our family members.
Catholics celebrate All Saints' Day, which is a public holiday in most federal states with a Catholic majority. Both Catholics and Protestants honor their deceased on Totensonntag (Sunday of the Dead), which is not war-related, unlike Poppy Day. The National Day of Mourning (Volkstrauertag) is observed in Germany to remember the victims of any war and tyranny, not restricted to a specific country or time, typically two Sundays before the first Sunday of Advent. In contrast, Totensonntag is celebrated on the last Sunday of the church year, often around November 24. These three holidays are considered "silent holidays," with stricter regulations regarding quietness than on other public holidays. Reformation Day commemorates Martin Luther and the beginning of the Protestant movement, rather than honoring the deceased.
On those public holidays (Reformation Day in Protestant regions and All Saints Day in Catholic areas) of course all shops are closed with the exception of flower shops near graveyards.
It’s not : dead Sunday , it’s the dead‘s Sunday/ Sunday of the dead . Rememberence day for those who are gone , who have fallen in the wars but also loved ones.
And If you live in the centre (Hessen) you'll have to Work both days
@@honigmarmeladenbrot1 Yep! Dumm gelaufen... Schönen Gruß aus Bayern!
I can say it for the south of bavaria. Every grave on a Friedhof is maintained and lovely decorated with autumn flowers and arrangements for Allerheiligen. Some people spend hours, days for this beautiful work in a silent and peaceful area, sometimes smalltalk with anyone and thinking and remembering of the loved but gone ones. For sure there are people who takes that tradition as a burden and for showtime, but for most people is Allerheiligen real. A day for the family to remember
I never knew that the german graveyard tradition is so special. Thank you so much for your lovely videos! You are so friendly! 🙏🏻
Grave sites are usually leased. There is usually a minimum period of between 25 and 30 years. The grave sites are looked after by relatives.
In some places, the minimum period is 15 years.
@@renate_c4h it is because of the graveyard soil , in clayey soil everything needs more time to decompost. (i hope i used the rigth words)
That's why I love the cemeteries in the UK, where you can find graves that date back to the 1400s, and the grave stones are still there.
or at least relatives pay the graveyard to keep them neat
Not only shops are closed, All Saints Day is a „quiet“ holiday by state legislation, which regularly means that public dancing or sport events, music at inns (if live or if not much quieter than usual) etc. are prohibited.
In lutheran protestant states the day before is a holiday, the reformation day. Because the protestants dont know saints.
When i was in the clinic for ed I used to go to the cementary next door a lot just to sit there, enjoy the view and have some peace and quiet reading time. As the girl said our cemeteries are more like parks so spending time there is very soothing.
My hometown has a huge forest cemetery with a big open space at the far back. A HUGE war memorial is placed there. You can climb up and have a beautiful view of the forest and grassy hill side. As kids we played a lot there and noone ever thought it was disrespectful. Quite the opposite i love that we dont abandon these spaces and much rather come together there
Such a nice reaction.
If you get the chance: Have a walk at night over a german graveyard at the evening of Allerheiligen or Easter. The atmosphere of silent and candles is just stunning peaceful.
grave candle are special. They are not so bright a normal candle is, but they burn much longer. Normal grave candle burn 72h, big burn 216h.
Sorry to clarify this: When there's no relatives taking care of the grave, there are hired gardeners who do it. And they get payed by the relatives. If noone cares or pays, the grave is dug and gets sold to someone else.
The traditional cemeteries with burial in the ground in German-speaking countries are also slowly becoming fewer and the graves used to be better cared for.
There is a trend towards cremation, as it is the cleaner solution. And there is a trend towards burying the urn in a “cemetery forest”, usually anonymous, where the trees are numbered and only the next of kin know the location of the grave to remember the deceased.
It is not only the 'cleaner' solution, but gives more time to the family.
Without cremation the dead person has to be buried within one week after death, which is quite a short time to get everything managed. (Buy the grave, organize everything, inform and invite friends...)
After cremation one has 3 to 6 month (depending were in Germany, Bavaria: 3, NRW: 6 month) till the burial has to take place.
The friedhof in this Video is like "standard" but there are even more beautiful Friedhöfe. The older they are, the beatuifuller. I had a Job in Altenburg, a German town known for there Playingcards, and the Friedhof there is so wunderfull. Like an 300 hundred years old park. I spended my breaks there in Summer. Sitting under a 200 years old oak and eating my Pausenbrot. If you are quiet nobody will be bothered. Normally the Family comes regularly to make the "Grabpflege" (the cleaning up and planting new plants wich belongs into the Season). As a child I wondered what this hustele and bustle was about but as a grown up I appreciate this ritual. it feels like being a little connected to my dear lost ones. My Aunt is a rose fan and she planted a lot on our Familygrave. So it looks like a blooming-bomb for the hole summertime. Full of roses and you can see it from far away. (they are really huge now) She is very proud about this and takes the Grabpflege very searious. For her, not care about the Grave, ist like being disrespectful against our ancestors.
Spring is the most beautiful time. Every grave has the most beautiful and colorful flowers. We regularly visit Grandpa (Opi)and Dad (Vati) and leave greetings in the form of candles. And of course kisses ❤❤
In this content, has anyone a idea to send him a link how we celebrate St.Martin? Its also a autaum celebratian for kids with a lot of candys
Ich kann gerade nicht verlinken, aber du findest in yt auch Videos ueber St. Martin.
@@connycatlady7429 er liest meist nicht die YT Kommentare. Ich habe nur YT. Deshalb weiss ich nicht wie er zu erreichen ist. Mit den Musikvideos klappt das ja auf anderen Anbietern
@@connycatlady7429 Es gibt zwei Martinstage - einmal für den katholischen und dann den evangelischen Martin ;)
@@QuentinPlant Seid wann ist St.Martin ein katholischer Umzug.?..das ist ein Protestanten Tag/ Umzug!
@@diedruidin Gute Frau - das "St." steht für Sankt, das klingt schon ziemlich katholisch, oder?
Damit ist der katholische Martin von Tours gemeint (der eigentlich nie heilig gesprochen wurde, aber das ist ne andere Geschichte). Martin von Tours ist der mit dem "geteilten Mantel" und er war war römischer Soldat, bevor er Bischof wurde - deswegen wird er oft als Reiter dargestellt. Er wurde am 11. November begraben und deswegen gibt's an diesem Datum viele Bräuche um ihn, und es wurde der Martinstag.
Martin Luther nun wurde am 10. November geboren - und in protestantischen Gegenden wurden daher einige Bräuche des katholischen Martins umgewandelt und am 10. November begangen.
Ich stamme aus dem Weserbergland, und dort gibt es viele "gemischte" Regionen. Katholische Umzüge haben meist einen Reiter dabei, evangelische eher nicht. Und es gibt das Martinssingen sowohl evangelisch als auch katholisch, wo Kinder klingeln und gegen Singen eines Liedes Süßigkeiten bekommen (manch schlaue Kinder sollen angeblich am 10. UND 11. singen, sie müssen sich halt nur ans richtige Lied erinnern...).
One day you need to visit Hamburg Ohlsdorf - been there once, and it was mindblowing! Its a huge park, people go there on sunny days for picknick, and in between, every now and then beautiful graves, gorgeous sculpures at it, and in May/June the huge hdges from rhododenrons are flowering. Hope I remember correctly, it's that huge, it's served by 2 buslines running within it
There is actually a german tradition in the upper southwest part of germany, mainly the Saarland, Palatine next to it and a bit into France of Lothringen that predates todays Halloween. A rather rural tradition. The kids would get big rubes or beets (Runkel- or Futterrübe), mainly used as fodder for the livestock, and carve them out with grim faces similar to a pumpkin. Those carvings would be much more rudimentary, because the beet is quite hard. A candle was placed inside, it was put on a stick, finished with an old white blanket underneath. The kids would go from house to house, singing songs and make the "Rummelbooz" peek into the windows to scare the people or children inside. They´d do this right into the first week of november when darkness would come early with mists and clouds.
About 15 years ago I researched where a similar tradition in my hometown(little town in Hesse) came from and now that you mentioned it and the more I think about this the more it seems like anglocentrism stroke again and what is Halloween/Samhain today could actually have it's origins here in continental Europe and not in Ireland.
The tradition you mentioned once had it's hot spot in the black forest area and is still somehwat alive in some towns across germany. In germany this tradition reached into Hesse and can also be found in some spots in Thuringa, Poland and Czechia. I never bothered to research how far it went into france since I couldn't read the french sources, though. And apparently Celts once also lived in the black forest area and Irish Celts came from continental Europe.
Hmmmmmmmm...... Coincidence?
If you come to visit Hamburg one day, so you can take a beautiful walk at the world biggest "Parkfriedhof" ( a graveyard in park-form). It's such a peaceful and interesting, big, famous... graveyard. It's so big, that you can drive by bus.
You shouldn't miss that, if you are interested in beautiful graveyards.
In Wien (Vienna/Austria) there is a great Friedhof-culture as well.
There is even a famous song about the central graveyard of Vienna: "Es lebe der Zentralfriedhof" (Long live the central graveyard) by Wolfgang Ambros.
Might be quite a different song to look into. Its in the austrian (Vienna) dialect, so you would need to find the 'normal' german lyrics, to get them translated into english.
(I checked out the translation of the lyrics given at a website called FENDRICH and these work out great for a english translation)
Allerheiligen is NOT Halloween. it is on the 01.of November. Halloween is on the 31.of october... also Halloween is something people in Germany only started to celebrate within the past 20years. it is not a German tradition. Allerheiligen is achurch holliday halloween is a pegan (celtic) holliday...
While All Saints' Day is indeed a significant Catholic holiday. However, it actually has roots in pre-Christian traditions, particularly Celtic and Roman customs. The celebration of Samhain marked the end of harvest and honored the dead, with beliefs about the veil between the living and the deceased being thinned. When Christianity spread, many of these practices were integrated into the church's observances. Interestingly, Halloween actually means All Hallows' Eve, referring to the evening before All Saints' Day. So, there’s definitely a historical connection between All Saints' Day and Halloween!
@@renate_c4h You forgot to mention the Goddess who rules "Hellheim" where all the Souls went to if they don't died in a battle😉 She is collecting the Souls in the Night between 31.10 and 1.11. May you know her under the name "Frau Holle" 😇
The city of Hamburg has the Ohlsdorf Friedhof, which is a gigantic park with rivers, a lake, monuments upon monuments and all sorts of plants, which is divided into lots of different graveyard sections. This graveyard has in fact 22 bus stops within it, as it is so huge xD
It's lovely there, especially once you're deep in the park, to soak up the atmosphere.
Allerheiligen is more of a catholic, thus southern German tradition, by the way. The culture around graves is present in northern Germany as well, but I feel like, the more southern and catholic you go, the more taken care of and the more beautiful and extravagant the graves look (i.e. Austria, Italy).
Northern Germans do not get that holiday off, they do however on the 31. of October, for the aniversary of Martin Luther's reformation, depending on the state, only from since a couple of decades ago, to some years ago (honestly because people wanted to have the free day on/around Halloween as well, lol).
Don't forget to mention that it is the biggest rural cemetery in the world and the fourth-largest cemetery in the world.
When I was a kid, I would go to the graveyard with my grandmother or great-aunt once a week to take care of the graves. We would plant flowers, clean the headstones, even draw motives into the soil with a small rake... And on Allerheiligen, everybody would put special candles with lids on the graves, it looked beautiful in the dark. Too bad she didn't go there at night!
Not in all Germany we have actually a day off at Allerheiligen or Reformationstag, in Berlin for example we do not in Brandenburg (the state surrounding Berlin) they do.
Fun fact: Berlin is actually the state with the fewest public holidays.
That sounds as if Berlin would be the worst off. But in fact, 7 states only have 10 holidays like Berlin.
@@armin5577Thank you. Was about to mention that. Greetix from Bremen.
Yep, sadly. 🤷🏻♀️
The red and white candles are placed on the graves as a symbol for the eternal flame. So they‘ll never be forgotten and the spirits live until eternity.
The most famous and largest
Cemetery of Austria is in Vienna and is called Zentralfriedhof. There is also a song about it by Wolfgang Ambros. Listen to it, it's called Zentralfriedhof 😊
If you come to Germany by car, remember that we drive on the *RIGHT* side of the road. 😁
If you are visiting Cologne, then it is worth taking a walk through the Melaten Cemetery. This is a huge park with new but also historic graves. Years ago I was in London at Highgate Cemetery. I was particularly impressed by the old part, which can only be visited as part of a guided tour.
Karl Marx rests at Highgate Cemetry
@@miriamb3226 Yes, I have seen it. It`s located on the new part which is very historic too😘
This is how it called by us Allerheiligen.we going this day on a Cemetery and lay fresh flowers on the Graves to our love ones who past away
We visit the graveyard every year on All saints day. But we go when its dark already. The lit up candles are so lovely in the dark. Its a very special feeling then
You don't pay a grave with taxes. You have to pay seperately. Grave rent (e. g. 20 years), flowers etc. Most families maintain the graves on their own.
these are the most stunning, silent and powerfull "parks" you could visit.
Halloween inportant for comerce! Reformation Day important for mankind!
No wonder, what's more important for us.
But i wonder it's not more important for US americans, when looking at the major religion and reasons why the europeans moved to north america?!.....🤔 🤷
Btw. Actually we have "Totensonntag" in november, before the Christmas season officially starts.
The people who make graves look nice are called cemetery gardeners.
A friend of mine is a cemetery gardener, it's a quiet and pleasant job. I'm a landscape gardener, I chose more chaos.
I honestly have no idea who pays the cemetery gardeners but my friend gets paid pretty well.
He works in a cemetery in Hamburg.
Yes, England’s graves may not be so beautiful, but imagine if Scrooge had seen a beautifully with flowers maintained gravestone with his name at the end, that would not have had the same effect😂
Trend goes to cremation bc of costs. The law says you need to be burried in a graveyard, that also includes urns. Many people now choose alternative graveyards that have come up in the last decades like special sections of a forest (Friedwald). Urns will be burried underneath a tree and only the loved ones will remember where it is bc it is unmarked. My parents and grandparents chose such options for themselves because they didn't want to burden their children with taking care of a grave for 25 years. Must say we're from the eastern part of Germany and had never so much as heard of all saints day. I also like the graveyards but the costs for a grave and upkeep of it and the gravestone are outrageous. Also your grave will be turned into someone else's grave after 25 years bc graveyards often don't have room to grow.
This bus stop is also for people with dementia. Very importend for the once, living centurys in the past. They sit there and waiting for Daddy or husbund is coming home for example and they calm down.
We have these busstops often near by hospitals and in parcs
Normally, there are no bus stops inside graveyards. There are however bus stops where no bus comes along, which are inside or near facilities that look after people with dementia for those people often wanting to leave and go home, and if they went missing you find them at the fake bus stop waiting for the bus for hours not realizing how long they have been waiting and that the bus won't come, which is much more save for them and easier to find them. Because it works so well you can even be more open and don't give them the feeling to be locked away.
Here in Berlin we don't celebrating All Saints yet. But we remembering at ,,Totensonntag", which means ,,Sundayof the dead". Its ever at the end of November. One week before first Advent. It' s a Tradition to visiting the graves of your loved ones and take care of the graves and put a candle for remembering.
The old graveyard in Freiburg is now a beautiful park. It is under monument protection. The last one was buried there about 1872 in the morning, at afternoon the first burring in the new main cementery.
If you visit Munich, you should see the Alten Südfriedhof (Old South Cemetery). It's really old and stunning, especially in spring. Or the Waldfriedhof, which is essentially a forest with graves in it. Amazing!
We live in a house that has a very long driveway to the street, and there are many old trees on the property.
We decorate the house for Halloween and light it with torches so that the local children can see that there is something sweet here, and at least 50+ children come every year.
A few years ago I dressed up in a cape and put on a Chewbacca mask (the ape-like one from Star Wars).
Then I hid behind a tree and when a large group of children came to the front door I jumped out and screamed like a madman.
Years have passed since then and no child has ever come to our house again.
All Saints' Day is a Catholic holiday on November 1st of each year. On All Saints' Day, Catholics remember their saints, that is, the people who lived faithfully and proclaimed the Christian message - and were canonized by the Pope for this.
Allerheiligen ist ein katholischer Feiertag am 1. November jedes Jahres. An Allerheiligen gedenken die Katholik*innen ihrer Heiligen, also der Menschen, die gläubig gelebt und die christliche Botschaft verkündet haben - und dafür vom Papst heiliggesprochen wurden.
In German cemeteries, some are looked after by cemetery gardeners. There are signs on the grave saying who does what. The signs with a P belong to private individuals, i.e. family members. U stands for entertainment and are looked after by the cemetery gardeners. PU stands for private and U/entertainment is sometimes looked after by families and cemetery gardeners.
Hey Dwayne, that with the children hurts me to😢. We always on 1. November go to the cemetery and bring the light to the graves. And I love to go to the cemetery at this day at the evening. Lots of red Lights. Incredible. Greetings from Bavaria, Moni
Allerheiligen is a holiday in the Catholic Church's liturgical year. A memorial service is held for the dead, often in the cemetery. The priest preaches and visits all the graves of the relatives present if they want and blesses the grave with holy water. The relatives light a soul light (which is also done throughout the year) which symbolizes eternal life after death.🕯✝🙏On this day, the priest wears white, the color of light.
Allerheiligen - very old celtic tradtion called Samhein - they believed , that the wall to the world of the dead in this time is very thin... the church took this tradition over from the "paigans" to bound them to their church as many other traditions ,they also took over
I never heard that others take care of the grave when there is nobody to take care!
There is a fee that you have to pay for taking care of the yard, not the graves, when the fee isnt covered they simply resale the grave to others and clear the area up.
Its like with you stuff, if there is no one that can get it, it belongs to the state and they will dump everything after the official is done with looking for things that are worth selling.
You disappear!
Others take over and they take care, but not for you, you are then nothing more than a social security number, never again being used.
Maybe there are some people cleaning up, but they wont pay your fees.
Normally the fee is payed for several years, so, when the time is over, its gone!
In the south the grannys and moms try to outdo each other on Allerheiligen. You'll see fresh arrangements with Roses, or ornatly planted graves. The special black grave earth sieved so there are no clumbs of earth.
And nope it's not taxes that pay for the decor it's the familys spending money and considered well spent.
If a grave is "abandoned" because their is no family near the grave is alive anymore a Friedhofsgärtner (cemetery gardener) will be hired by the rest of the family and they will pay for the grave till the lease is up.
If there isn't realy anybody anymore at least at all saints day it's likely some stranger will take pity and clean up the grave a bit and bring a candle and flowers.
A family grave isn't necessarily a grave were a whole family is burried but an "ongoing project". You rent a big grave and if someone in your family dies it's their final restingplace. The next family member dies, the will be laid next or above the first one. And so on. We have a grave taken over from my grandma's sister and her husband who died early. Then my granny, grandad and father ended up there.
The more graves you have to rent the more expensive it gets so a family grave is an affordable option. Familymembers don't mind to share or care.
All names will be placed on the headstone. Sometimes
Only three days until "Allerheiligen" ... we've been to the graveyard today! Cleaned everything up already, putted down some nice flower-stuff and arranged everything with new candles, etc ... :) *rip
Allsaintsday is only a public holiday in mostly catholic states in Germany. The protestant states celebrate reformation day (October 31st) and it is a public holiday there. So you have either October 31st or November 1st as public holiday, depending on which part of Germany you live in.
What I have found in my holidays in the UK was just shocking to me tbh. When I arrived in Southampton i was visiting the graveyard where most of the Titanic victims were buried and there also were new graves that were around 2 years old and all of em were abandoned and nobody cared for them and there’s my idea then, what if gave homeless ppl a job by making them take care of the graves? Ppl need a job and homes and we should also care for the graves to honour our loved ones. Oh and there’s a graveyard in Hamburg that has streets and bus stops and even a café because it’s so big. It rly is beautiful and you get your daily steps easily 😅
Allerheiligen has nothing to do with Halloween.
Halloween, or Hallowe'en[7][8] (less commonly known as Allhalloween,[9] All Hallows' Eve,[10] or All Saints' Eve),[11] is a celebration observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. It is at the beginning of the observance of Allhallowtide,[12] the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed.[
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween
Ha ha 😂 Die Christen wieder streiten sich um des Kaisers Bart, glauben die Welt wurde erst erfunden mit dem Zimmermann aus Galilea😂 (Die Göttin Hell, auch genannt Frau Hulda oder auch Frau Holle, sammelte mit der "wilden Jagd" die Seelen der über das Jahr nicht in der Schlacht gefallenen und führte diese nach Hellheim dem Totenreich) Woher kommt die von Missionaren geprägte Bezeichnung "Hölle", skandinavische Bezeichnung "Hellvegen" wohl? Über alle Heidnischen Stätten und Feiern wurde ein anderes Label geklebt, weil den Menschen die Gelegenheit zum Feiern zu nehmen wäre nicht effizient gewesen. Und man setzte auf das anektieren und vergessen in späteren Generationen - Hat ja bei manchen funktioniert 🤣🤣🤣
Perhaps it is interesting to know what the word "Friedhof" means in German; it's "court of peace" and this a very comforting interpretation.
Wir haben ein Familiengrab. Dort liegen meine Eltern, Großeltern, Urgroßeltern ein Großonkel und der 2. Mann meiner Großmutter. Allerheiligen ist ein großer katholischer Feiertag, die ganze Familie kommt zum Grab. Niemand will sich mit einem ungepflegten Grab blamieren. Die gezeigten Gräber sind mittlerer Durchschnitt. Es gibt Leute die eskalieren, und geben hunderte von Euros aus.
As a teenager, I actually went to our local graveyard quite often to sit on a bench and read in peace and quite with pretty surroundings. I also studied for exams there. We had a nice, big garden at home... But there was always the risk, that I'd have to empty the dishwasher, mow the lawn, take the dog for a walk. So the graveyard was the quiet and nice option away from all the chores :-D
Hello,
here in Germany, cemeteries are often used as parks where you can sit and relax. Especially in big cities, they are sometimes the only green islands between all the concrete.
Reinhard Mey wrote a beautiful song about the “Friedhof” (which is also the name of the song).
ruclips.net/video/lTs8DdRyivQ/видео.html
In Germany, it would be hard to imagine that graves would really decay or fall into disrepair.
The last time I visited my mother, she had received an official request from the cemetery office (yes, something typically German!) to clean her mother's grave, otherwise a cemetery gardener appointed by the office would do it at her expense.
When I visited the grave with her, there were exactly three tiny weed stalks growing at the edge of the grave. It took less than a minute to remove them.
What's more, graves are often only leased and occupied for 20 years. After that, they are reconditioned and cleared for new burials.
The trend at the moment is also towards anonymous burials.
When my father and my brother died by chance last year on the same weekend just two days apart, we decided to do the same.
The deceased are cremated and buried anonymously in a coal urn in a wooded area under a tree.
Their names are then listed on a stone stele at the entrance to the forest.
2:37 That is not true. All Saints' Day is a Holyday only in 5 federal states out of 16 in Germany. So most of the germans have a normal work- or schoolday.
Hey, I'm Coming from the North of Germany, and for us is the last Sunday in November a Day to look after the people which passed away in our lives. The Sunday is called "Ewigkeitssonntag" (Eternal Sunday). In the Worship of your Church Community you hear all the names who passed away the last year. It's a great day to remember them all.
Our mandatory "Liegezeit"(which is the time the urn or casket has to remain in the ground) is 15 years.
If relatives do not extent this period the remains (bones) will be collected, put back into the grave, covered up and the gravesite will be sold to another family.
- When my aunt passed in 2012, I had to pay a gardener to look after the site and since I was the only inheritor I paid 7500.- Euro.
My parents did it the smart way by picking their burial spot in "The Field Of The Anonymous". There is a beautiful statue and everyone can place little trinkets like angels, hearts or like I do, a large vase with silk flowers for every soul residing in that field. It is being cared for by the city gardeners.
Knew of a couple of people wich spent their lunchbreak on the 'Alte Friedhof' in Freiburg. In one small town near Heidelberg they buildt direct behind a playground.
There where the Americans were stationed after the last war Halloween got popular and the kids just loved it (: So it's a bit different ..
And now, especially those who come from a 1/2 1/2 family grew into this having their way to party AND honor our beloved ones♡
All Saints Day is also called „All Hallows Day“. Halloween = All Hallows Eve = the evening before. Halloween is originally Irish who were mostly catholic. Irish immigrants brought this tradition to america.
I don't know about Germany but in Austria there is something called..Ruhe or Liegezeit ..it means how long a Body lay down there. The Family Members pay for it..about 10, 15 or 20 Years. Not sure when but they have to burn the Rest afterwards to give it to the next. In general there are People working there. Garden, Sourroundings not the Grave Cleaning. So if nobody go there, nobody will really Remove the dry flowers or put new Flowers on the Grave..if there is Graveyard Earth and not only Stone. Maybe it is a bit different in Germany. Others Laws maybe. I can only tell about my Country.
All Saints Day in Germany is a Catholic holiday. Stores are closed only in Catholic areas, so the majority of shops will be open. Protestants have another day for remembering the dead, around the last Sunday in November.
Every year in Germany there are nine official national holidays as well as regional festivals that apply in certain federal states. This means that some federal states have more public holidays than others.
"My" graveyard is my "nearest park". I love it. It is huge: 50 ha (125 acre or 600.000yd²) and has 40.000 graves. Beside this it has lots of open areas, with meadows, lots of foresty areas and is just beautyfull.
I started visiting it regularly while the 2020 pandemic, because it was one of few places to be in peace, without cops telling you, that it is against the law to sit on a bench! (which was the case in the early month of the pandemic).
Back than I discovered its beauty. And all the animals living there. I met a fox-family and I loved to feed squirrels straight out of my hand.
This year in spring I had to bury my father on this "Friedhof", so I got some more knowledge of the regulatories:
I had to 'book' the grave for at least 10 years, but could as well book it for 20, 30, 100... It's 40 € each year, to be paied in advance for the whole time, which can be expaned every time. The grave might be 'used' by up to 6 'inhabitants'.
I was advised, that I would be allowed to place a standing grave-stone, but not a lying one. But as well, that I could place nothing. If I would like to place a wooden cross, it has to be painted in certain environment-friendly colors.
If I would like to plant any plants, I would have to build a bed that protrudes 15 cm above the surrounding area, i.e. create a raised planting bed. Why? Because all graves are sourrounded by grass and the gardeners that are mowing, need a clear sign were to stopp. I also would be allowed to do nothing. Than grass-sees would be placed, and the grave would become part of the meadow, without any notice of the person (my dad) buried there.
Beside this I was told: "We are not strict at all. Do whatever you want as long as it is respectfull".
So I could place a litte cup/bowl for squirrel-food or a self-painted stone or candles, pictures, artworks...
I decided for some different flowers, placed and grouped in a way my dad would have liked it.
An now I'm up to plant dozens of flower bulbs for the next spring, that will flower form february till may, when I will plant new flowers for the summer.
Every grave around is different, Some people do quite nothing, others plant durable plants, that can stand the frosty winter, others change the flowers (like I do) every season.
So: Beside the nice overall look of that Friedhof with all its meadows and little 'forests' and all the birds, squirrels, benches... it is a place were every singe one of these 40.000 graves looks different and changes its look throughout the year. There is allways a 'new' grave (or new designed), that can be spotted.
The day was not called (if you translate the Irish origin) All Saints Day. It was called All Halllows Day... and the evening before was formerly known as All Hallows Eve or (as you now say) Halloween.
Bus stops are often set up (i.e. outside bus routes) for two reasons. 1) they provide protection from bad weather and 2) people with dementia are familiar with bus stops, often from their earliest youth. Just like cemeteries. And some municipalities try to offer such people a “contact point” from which they can be brought safely back to their place of residence. Many retirement homes also have bus stops in the immediate vicinity, even if there is no bus at all, for the above reason.
All Saints' Day will be celebrated on 1. november. 31. of October, we called "Revormationstag", where Luther reformed the church it`s a little bit differently 😇😊🤣
AMERICANS HAS Halloween and Germany has Fasching from November 111 up to 12 .03
Halloween came from Ireland to the USA and from there back tu us.
In Germany we have in the northern states (where they mostly are protestant/ evangelisch) on the 31.10. the Reformations Day, because Martin Luther pins his 95 theses on the portal of the castlechurch in Wittenberg on the 31. October 1517.
My father didn't want to keep family members responsible to care for his grave so he wanted to get creamated and the ash given to nature. But that's not leagel here in Germany as bodys have to be layed down in a graveyard. But we have a beatiful alternative here called "Friedwald" or "Ruhewald".My sister and me had his ash buried in one. It's a part of woodland declared as a graveyard and the urns are buried there between the roots of old trees.
Shops are closed on every public holiday here.
Much love from Amberg, Bavaria ! ❤❤❤
Usually they pay all the bills to burry themselves. Some people invest in insurances to cover the costs of burial some even pay the gardener service fee in advance to don’t burden the relatives with the maintenance of the grave.
Irish immigrants brought Halloween to the US, during the Exodus of the great famine.
In the rest of Europe its basically a commercial event due to the fact that about 20 years ago they were not allowed to celebrate karnival, so the Shops tried to sell the stuff half a year later.
Its rediculous😮
I like english graveyards much more. I was about 16 years old, as i saw a really overgrown graveyard in England and i thought, that this is so beautiful. I thought here is life taking over again, while we freeze the state of death and mourning in germany
Halloween I learned about from the 'Peanuts' film >It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown< by Charles.M. Schulz :)
Allerheiligen is a calm holiday in most states of Germany. Halloween is not a German tradition. We have our own. On St. Martin's Day, kindergarten and elementary school children go through the community in a torchlight procession. Afterwards, they go through the town and ring people's doorbells. They sing a song and receive sweets in return.
"Allerheiligen is a calm holiday in m̶o̶s̶t̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶t̶e̶s̶ ̶ 5 of 16 states in Germany"
@@peter_althoff ok, some others has Reformationstag..
Fun fact -- Allerheiligen (All Saints) is more of a Catholic tradition and a holiday; the various Protestant denominations follow pretty much the same customs with decorating graves and such, but it's done on the last Sunday in November -- Totensonntag/Ewigkeitssontag, or Sunday of/for the Dead/Eternity Sunday. It's the end of the ecclestiastical year, and is followed by the first Sunday of Advent the next week, starting the new ecclestiastical year. The Sunday before Totensonntag is Volkstrauertag, or Remembrance Day.
All three are so-called "quiet" holidays, meaning no dancing, no fairs, no sporting events. During my childhood in the 1960s and 70s, not even radio or TV would broadcast "entertainment" -- it was all "serious", like classical music or dramatic plays with a message. Very dreary, and thankfully that's no longer the case, but you still wouldn't find a comedy performance, say, on public channels. (You can still go to the movies to watch whatever you want, though.) Another quiet holiday is Good Friday, just before Easter, and Christmas Eve also has some similar restrictions (but you can circumvent them by arranging a private party/celebration, even at a bar or restaurant ... as long as it's not open to the general public).
If you want to visit a graveyard, the best time would be spring or summer. The graves are beautifully decorated then.
Graveyards are beautiful around Christmas and in snow, too.
@@renate_c4h Oh, so true. 👍I totally forgot about that.
There is no German Halloween tradition although it's heavily promoted by retailers.
You might see Kindergarten children and children from elementery school who dress up for Halloween but this is also depending on the social class.
You might als see some party people.
All Saints is only a holiday in 5 of 16 federal states in germany. Reformationday is a holiday in 9 of the 16 states.
It depends on the former historic majority of protestants and catholics in those federal states and has nothing to do with todays religious affiliation.
At the end of 2023, the Roman Catholic Church had 24.0% members, the Protestant churches had 21.9% members among the total population, with a heavily declining trend.
The share of the largest single group, the non-denominational, was 46.2% at the end of 2023.
So no, these holidays aren't common celebrated beside of people having a work free day.
“All Saints Day” is NOT a public holiday in ALL of Germany! The number of public holidays varies in the different federal states and also depends on whether they are Catholic or Protestant - Bavaria (12 days) and Saxony (11 days) have the most public holidays! Therefore, it regularly happens that people from federal states where shops are closed because of a public holiday drive to neighboring federal states where there is NO public holiday in order to be able to shop there!
We going all Sundays on the Cemetery to the Graves from our love ones Who Past away.that to a reason why no shops have open on the Sundays. This is what we doing if we see on a grave has been not done along time nothing done we take care about this Grave too
If you need to cheer yourself up now after thinking about relatives that passed away, check "Wenn ich en Engel bin - Kasalla"
Its sung in the dialect of cologne and might be similar to dutch more than to german. There are 2 legendary guests in the video, an old woman and an old man. Both of them are living legends within the culture of cologne and our unique Karneval.
And if you wanna know more about Karneval, there is so much tradition that doesnt get recognition outside of germany and karneval and "fasching" is celebrated all across west germany, in swizerland and northern italy (you know, the carneval of venice).
We celebrate carneval in germany since the roman times, 2000 years ago. These traditions are still very lively and probably more lively than 2000 years ago, but with consume and expansion of a culture, there is also some respect and knowledge that gets lost and overlooked.
Anyway, karneval is one of the biggest non christian traditions in germany and also the most forgotten one outside of germany.
The music video is about a grave ceremony and the singers last wish.
Sorry, i love karneval :D Its currently close to the session opening 2024/2025. And the modern version of karneval (session-karneval) has its 200 year anniversary this season.
Singt, drinkt, danzt up minge jrav~
You could react to Reinhard Fendrich "I am from Austria," or Austria3 (Reinhard Fendrich, Georg Danzer and WolfgangAmbros) "I am from Austria"
It's the unofficial national anthem 😂
Every grave is a little garden😊
Your Reactions to german Rap are so much on point and so good music choices.
I think you would love Alligatoah, a very talented rapper, I would recommend "Du bist schön" oder "Monet" as songs, but he literally has no bad tracks.
Personally, I would love to see you react on Kool Savas again, songs "Mona Lisa" or "Rapfilm".
Sorry for so much suggestions, but I would also love to hear your thoughts on "Red Bull Sound Clash|KIZ versus Kraftclub| Ihr dürft nicht nach Berlin| because the athmosphere in thus vid was incredible.
thank you for your work
There some graveyards in Germany , which are open partially for riding bikes at least in the bigger cities , at least you can take a walk and watch some awesome graveyards , just like in a museum
You still have to react to Zukunft Pink by Peter Fox!!! Because we are the third biggest music market in the world, behind Japan and USA! You could miss Bands like 'Von Wegen Lisbeth' with 'Wenn du tanzt'😊❤
In North Germany we don`t celebrate this day, because the major are protestant here. It is a catholic tradition, so it`s celebrated in South Germany, that is major catholic.
German holidays are complicated because of the federal structure, All Saints Day is only a holiday in federal states with mostly Catholic religion, mainly in the southern and western federal states and Reformation Day (day of remembrance of the Reformation of Martin Luther) on October 31 is a Protestant holiday and therefore a holiday in northern and eastern federal states, except Hesse and Berlin - they have neither.
So in my Lutheran community, it is more common for the graves to be decorated for “Totensonntag” (Sunday in memory of the dead on the last Sunday before the start of Advent, after which the Christmas season traditionally begins). But it can also be different from region to region, I'm not a believer and have left the church, so I'm not a good source for this haha. But my home village also has a Catholic church and it's really nice to see how the graves are decorated.
Well, in my area there are a few, often ex-amricans that have something like a decoration.
There are some Helloween parties in Clubs and Bars or so, but its more like beside thing that especially young people like to use as excuse for getting drunk.
Sadly i cant even work in the Taxi at the moment since i am home for sick leave because of an Covid-19 infection.
"Dont workout, take it easy and drink lots of tea if you can" said the doctor.
So, i am playing on my PC and watching YT videos.
And while i have to chill, lets fire it up and 420!
A ll saints was two days if i recall it correctly...
Fun fact halloween comes from all hallows eve so the evening before all hallows day
At all Catholic related Days the shops are closed!
Not in every part of Germany at least, but still in the most! 😊
Hn, good to hear an outside perspective. I'd never would have called our "Friedhöfe" beautiful. I just think they are very German. I'll look at them differently now I think.
Also, I once stumbled across a little cemetery in England in the early nineties. It was in a small town behind a very old little church. The sun had just set and it was slightly foggy. The stones were OLD. It was very mythical. That's what I thought UK graveyards to be from then on. Sad to hear it is a misconception.
I also remembered my Dad telling me about Halloween in the US when I was a little kid in the seventies. I believe it was on Halloween. He told me when he was a kid in the thirties, they carved out big turnips (?) and put candles inside to ward off the evil spirits. Not a little kid spectacle though. They wouldn't have opened the door that night if someone had knocked.
There is a Differenzen between the german holiday between all saints and all souls.
Hi from Germany. my english is not that good, so please excuse the mistakes. The graves are cared for by family members themselves or they pay gardeners to do it. the German state pays nothing for it. There is no family neglecting the graves here either.
True !!!
Well... Not for the graves, but for the whole graveyard itself.
November is generally the month in which the dead are commemorated in Germany.
All Saints' Day is not a public holiday in all federal states. In federal states with a predominantly Protestant population, Reformation Day is a public holiday.
Reformation Day, Reformation Festival or Reformation Memorial Day is celebrated by Protestant Christians in Germany and Austria on 31 October to commemorate the beginning of the Reformation of the Church by Martin Luther in 1517.
All Saints' Day (Latin: Sollemnitas Omnium Sanctorum) is a Christian feast day on which all saints are commemorated, the “glorified members of the Church who have already reached perfection”, both known and unknown. The feast is celebrated on 1 November in the Western Church and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in the Orthodox churches. The Protestant Church also celebrates the day of remembrance of the saints on 1 November.
On All Souls' Day (Latin [Dies] in commemoratione omnium fidelium defunctorum, "Day of remembrance of all deceased believers") the Roman Catholic Church commemorates the memory of its deceased. The memory of all souls is celebrated as a high feast in the church year on November 2nd, one day after the high feast of All Saints' Day.
The custom of All Souls' Day includes the blessing of graves in cemeteries. In some places this takes place on the following weekend, in countries where All Saints' Day is a public holiday, often on the afternoon of All Saints' Day.
Remembrance Sunday or Eternity Sunday is a day of remembrance for the deceased in the Protestant churches in Germany and Switzerland. It is the last Sunday in the church year before the first Sunday of Advent. Due to the fixed location of the fourth Sunday of Advent before December 25th, it can only fall on dates from November 20th to 26th.
Remembrance Day is a national day of remembrance in Germany and is one of the so-called silent days. The day of remembrance has been celebrated two Sundays before the first Sunday of Advent since 1952. A ceremony in the German Bundestag commemorates the victims of violence and war of all nations.
from my hometown: Ohlsdorf Cemetery (German: Ohlsdorfer Friedhof or (former) Hauptfriedhof Ohlsdorf) in the Ohlsdorf quarter of the city of Hamburg, Germany, is the biggest rural cemetery in the world[1] and the fourth-largest cemetery in the world.[2] Most of the people buried at the cemetery are civilians, but there is also a large number of victims of war from various nations.[3] The cemetery notably includes the Old Hamburg Memorial Cemetery (Althamburgischer Gedächtnisfriedhof, formerly Ehrenfriedhof) with the graves of many notable Hamburg citizens. In 1877 the Ohlsdorf Cemetery was established as a non-denominational and multi-regional burial site outside of Hamburg.[4]
The cemetery has an area of 391 hectares (966 acres) with 12 chapels, over 1.5 million burials in more than 280,000 burial sites and streets with a length of 17 km (11 mi). There are 4 entrances for vehicles and public transport is provided with 25 bus stops of two bus lines of the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund.[5] The cemetery is not only used as a burial ground, but also as a recreational area and tourist attraction. With its impressive mausoleums, rhododendron bushes, its ponds and birds, sculptures and funerary museum, about two million people from all over the world visit the cemetery every year.[
Halloween, comes from " All Hallows ´Eve " (31. October), All Saints Day and Halloween are related, but in diffrent ways, All Saints Day is for the Roman Catholic and the Protestant Church actually on November 1. , but some diocese do it between 2. to 8. November. It has nothing to do with Christmas ! The Church couldn´t give every single Saint a special day, so they created in the 8th century the All Saints Day and the 1. November is also the beginning of the Celtic calendar, like Halloween is also related to Celtic culture. There is also a reason why they put Christmas on 24. December. If you look at the dates, for diffrent things, of the Orthodox Church, you can see there is a difference.
that is on November 1st not October 31st