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Tag: Germany

Germany, with its rich history and beautiful landscapes, provides a respectful and meaningful setting for cremation practices and scattering ashes. This culturally rich country. German culture places significant emphasis on dignity and respect in funeral practices, making it an ideal...

What are the Laws relating to Scattering Ashes in Europe

Many of you want to scatter ashes aboard – a favourite holiday destination, where your beloved proposed or any number of heartwarming reasons. Over the years I have tried to find out what is the law covering scattering ashes is in other countries, this has proved remarkably difficult. Mainly due to the fact I don’t […]

The German who pioneers for Scattering Ashes at Sea

German Pioneer of Ashes at Sea – Captain Horst Hahn’s Story I love reading about ashes culture in different parts of world. Even our close Continental neighbours have a very different approach based on tradition and religion that can seem strange, Germany is a case in point. German law is very strict around ashes, they […]

Is Germany starting to embrace modern ashes memorialisation?

The UK ashes memorialisation has flourished over the past few years. Now I think the reason it has flourished in the UK is threefold: Cremation has been the most common funeral for people for many years and people tend to be more developed in their thinking of how ashes can be used for memorialisation We […]

Attitudes to ashes are changing in Germany

Germany, traditionally, has always been one of the strictest countries in Europe in relation to cremated remains. In most German states it is illegal to keep, bury or scatter ashes anywhere outside of cemetery, but attitudes are changing according to a recent survey. The survey of over 1000 people revealed that the vast majority of […]

Carrying ashes on a Lufthansa flight

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Carrying ashes on a Lufthansa flight Travelling with ashes can be tricky it is best to get thing right from the start, so that you experience the minimum disruption. So if you intending to take cremation ashes on a Lufthansa flight, this is what they say: In regards to your enquiry, passengers are allowed to carry the cremated remains […]

Bremen is the first state in Germany to allow the Scattering of Ashes

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Bremen, the smallest state in Germany, has voted to allow the scattering of ashes. To be honest I knew the name, but I was not aware where it was – and it is small, really small in fact it is two cities that are separated by the larger state of Lower Saxony. You might not […]

Ex Nazi to have his ashes scattered where he was a PoW

Ex-Nazi POW’s Ashes to Be Scattered in Scotland A German soldier left his estate to a Scottish the village of Comrie, Perthshire and is to have his cremation ashes scattered there where he was a prisoner of war camp during WWII. Heinrich Steinmeyer was a soldier in the Wafhen SS and was captured fighting to […]

Overweight germans casing fires at crematorium

Cremation of Obese people in Germany Causes Real Issues

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Cremation, Obesity and Environmental Impact: A Difficult Debate the Industry Must Face The discussion around obesity touches almost every area of modern life, and now it has reached the cremation sector. A recent report from Germany has reignited a difficult conversation about what happens when a person of significant body weight is cremated — and […]

Nazi war criminal’s body exhumed, cremated and buried at sea to hamper memorialisation

Rudolf Hess the one time deputy to Adolf Hitler has had is body exhumed, cremated and his ashes scattered at sea. In Germany, the cemetery in the Bavarian town of Wunsiedel was becoming a centre of memorialisation for Hess and Nazism more widely. Fascists had held a yearly demonstration at the grave on the anniversary […]

Jewish Survivor’s Wish to Scatter Ashes at Treblinka

Final Journey Back to the Holocaust Death Camp Where Family Perished As stories of poignancy, heartache and resonance go, this one really stops you in your tracks. I would urge you to read the article it is likely to leave you thinking for quite some time. A lady who survived the death camp at Treblinka, while her parents and […]