Pest Cemetery Welbergen

Kind of a spooky place considering how many people were buried there due to the plague.

The plague cemetery was a burial site established in the Middle Ages away from settlement centers for the rapid burial of victims of epidemics, particularly those of the plague. It usually supplemented the churchyard, where the deceased were usually buried with a church ceremony. During such epidemics, the victims were often buried quickly and without any ceremony, sometimes in mass graves. Only after the epidemic had subsided were joint church ceremonies often held for all those buried. Many plague cemeteries were closed by the 19th century at the latest, usually even earlier; however, they were sometimes still used, such as the Old Cemetery formerly used by deaconesses in Radebeul-Kötzschenbroda, which is still open as a burial site today.

Plague crosses that have occasionally been preserved remind us of plague cemeteries. Germany Plague cemetery in Zell, Eisenberg, Allgäu Plague cemetery near Kohlhunden, town of Marktoberdorf in the Ostallgäu district Gertrudenfriedhof, a suspected plague cemetery in front of the Danish Gate, Kiel, with at least 100 skeletons Plague cemetery between Kastl and Altötting on a former meadow in Tanna Plague cemetery in Welbergen, town of Ochtrup, North Rhine-Westphalia Former plague cemeteries in Radebeul, Saxony Plague cemetery in Leiberg (Bad Wünnenberg), North Rhine-Westphalia Plague cemetery, Teutschenthal train station, Saxony-Anhalt Czech RepublicOne of the well-preserved or restored plague cemeteries is that of Žďár nad Sázavou in the Czech Republic.