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Close to Home: Old Cemetery Görlitz

November 17, 2016  •  Leave a Comment

 

 

 

Old Cemetery in Görlitz

 

 

Görlitz, in the southeast of eastern Germany, is renowned for it´s beautifully restored old town. The city hardly suffered any damage from WWII and is considered one of the best preserved historic town ensembles in Germany. As a contrast to the tidy and neat medieval dreamland stands one of the towns cemeteries. Perched along a hillside behind St. Nikolai church, this old charmingly run-down cemetery tries to conserve times long gone. If it weren´t a cemetery one could say it´s charme is somewhat morbid.

 

 

 

 

 

St. Nikolai side entrance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looking up towards the tombs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This tomb lost all of it´s side walls. Perhaps there were even just windows - hard to say.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saxony Gallery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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