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Plague Cemetery (Pestkyrkogård)

Plague Cemetery (Pestkyrkogård)

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Plague Cemetery (Pestkyrkogård)

Name: Plague Cemetery (Pestkyrkogård)
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Location: Älmhult, Kronoberg, Sweden

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October 3, 2018

Display boards explain important things in German too.

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Tevion1505 (Andreas)

August 16, 2021

People who had fallen victim to epidemics of cholera or plague and were not allowed to be transported to the ordinary cemetery due to the risk of infection were buried here. The dead must also get underground as quickly as possible, which is why the usual ceremonies could not be carried out in the presence of a priest. Many bodies were buried in the same grave and presumably without a coffin. According to popular tradition, this burial place was used at the latest during the great cholera epidemic at the beginning of the 18th century. The local population has always shown great respect and awe for this place (Kirchenacker), which has always remained untouched despite previous cultivation of the land around this place. Ghosts and spirits are said to have revealed themselves on the small hill to those who approached this place at night!

Source: almhult.se/visitalmhult/de/sehenerleben/entdeckendaslandschaft/radelnundwanderninalmhult/wanderwege/pagardagensstigar.4.40681f1210df5380876800030834.html

2nd Schauaufel - same source - (Fägata): When the cattle in the old days of grazing were brought into pastureland or forest, it was by a "cow path. It could go from the stable to the pasture. Fägatan consisted of two parallel rock made of wood or, as here, the walls. At the opening of the forest there was a gate, or as it is also called, a "smile". Here the animals pass out or in the morning and in the evening. They were of course not in graze a field or meadow until after the harvest in the fall.In the early 1800s, the fences are almost always made of wood, but instead of wood and stone Lack of clearance prompted the company to put up stone walls the stones that left you out of the fields and a fence that lasted "forever".

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