{"id":20636,"date":"2022-05-09T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/?p=20636"},"modified":"2022-02-13T17:35:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T15:35:06","slug":"crematorium-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/germany\/berlin\/crematorium-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Crematorium Wedding – an unusual guided tour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
I admit it, a tour of a crematorium sounds strange at first until you learn what is in the building today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Rather by chance I became aware of a really extraordinary guided tour. The new owner of the Wedding Crematorium offers a tour that not only tells something about the history of the building, but also vividly depicts the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The population in Berlin grew and increasingly the problem of housing the dead became apparent. The topic of cremation became more and more popular, even though the churches were clearly against it. For them, the cremation of a body was something ungodly. Nevertheless, burial in an urn was allowed in Prussia since 1891. Only the burning of the body was forbidden.
However, there were doctors, hygienists and the Cremation Association who were clearly in favor of cremation. They considered this type of burial, in contrast to burial in the ground, to be much more space-efficient and hygienic (especially for the city’s groundwater).<\/p>\n\n\n\n