Plants in the cemetery

At present, plants in the cemetery are mainly viewed from the perspectives of ecology and climate change. Occasionally other important meanings are overlooked. Plants have played and still play an important role in the design of cemeteries: here, for example, they serve as fencing, avenues or hedges to create aesthetic spaces. On gravestones and in communal graves they have a great significance as symbols. In near-natural burial grounds, plants even become symbols of graves. And as the seasons change, plants as symbols illustrate the cycle of becoming and passing away.
In the seminar, the subject of plants is explored in various directions through a lecture, a guided tour of the museum and an excursion to the main cemetery in Kassel.

The one-day seminar is especially designed for cemetery guides.

Maximum number of participants: 15 persons (plus 2 referees).

Costs

Regular: 90,-€
Member ArgeFD: 70,-€

including lunch snack, conference drinks, cake, three issues of the journal Friedhof und Denkmal (Cemetery and Monument), entrance to the museum, tickets for the excursion

Arrival

The seminar takes place in the Museum for Sepulchral Culture and at the main cemetery in Kassel, GER.

Cancellation conditions

If you are unable to attend after registration, please let us know up to five days before the seminar begins. Otherwise we will have to charge you the full fee. You have the possibility to nominate a substitute participant free of charge at any time.