Description: Czech Cemetery Gravestones - pictures and records, genealogy helper
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Home Prague neighbourhood Central Bohemia South-western Bohemia North-eastern Bohemia North Moravia Greece Czech Cemetery Gravestones The purpose of our work is to document tombstones of smaller Czech cemeteries and make them available, so that they are not forgotten.
We begun by visiting the cemetery and looked at the tombstone, inscriptions, dates and names. Most of them are dated from the first half of 20th century with very few older ones. But where are the older gravestones? They have disappeared into a shadowy history without a trace... Most Czech cemeteries were established as late as in 19th century. Following a ban of entombing within urban areas, which was issued in 1787 by emperor Josef II, graveyards were setup out of towns. Old cemeteries at churches were mo
For example some of the oldest graves (mostly German ones) in Cesky Krumlov bear a notice that the materials of the tombstones are for sale. And thus graves disappear, and not only in Cesky Krumlov... And that’s why we work to photograph at least some of these tombstones and make them available; so that they are not forgotten.