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Pest Cemetery Welbergen

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Münster District

Kreis Steinfurt

Ochtrup

Pest Cemetery Welbergen

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Pest Cemetery Welbergen

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Location: Ochtrup, Kreis Steinfurt, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. Achterbeärger Eck Shelter – Pest Cemetery Welbergen loop from Ochtrup

17.6km

01:03

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2. Pest Cemetery Welbergen – Haus Welbergen Water Castle loop from Neuenkirchen

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01:49

70m

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3. Schlossmühle Burgsteinfurt – Seller Schulweg Cycle Path loop from Emsdetten

66.5km

04:10

170m

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Andrea 🥾⛰🌲🪵🐿🌦 🚲🌳🌷🌻🌾🌤

July 20, 2022

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

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Alwin R 🚲

July 7, 2024

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.

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Alwin R 🚲

July 7, 2024

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 Republic

One of the well-preserved or restored plague cemeteries is that of Žďár nad Sázavou in the Czech Republic.

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Location: Ochtrup, Kreis Steinfurt, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Pest Cemetery Welbergen

1. Achterbeärger Eck Shelter – Pest Cemetery Welbergen loop from Ochtrup

2. Pest Cemetery Welbergen – Haus Welbergen Water Castle loop from Neuenkirchen

3. Schlossmühle Burgsteinfurt – Seller Schulweg Cycle Path loop from Emsdetten

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