I don't know if anyone still is following this thread.
So I just post some more own pics here :wink:
[We have been yesterday to a Napoleon exhibition in a
a town on the Weser river, an hour's drive away.
It was a beautiful 'summer' day, and we went in the botannical garden afterwrds.
Which actually is a cemetery: the Napolionic government didn't want any cemetaries within the inner town borders. So they a new cemetary was palnned in 1804.
When the Prussians fortified the town in the 1820-something, this cemetary was exactly in the line of fire of their main guns. Thus, no walls were allowed, no tombs higher than 54 cm etc.
No-one bothered much about that.
In the 20th century a new cementary was built since this one was be then within the town borders again - and only very few funerals took place (only for families, who already had tombss there).
In 1950, the cemetary was closed and became a botonical garden.
It's now a listed monument, with the old tombs left as they are.
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