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Kathi's gravesite Once upon a time there was a princess, Kathi. Her beautiful mother, Maria, and her rich father, Johann, were gentle people and they adored their only child: they wrapped her in silk garments and gold jewellery. But Kathi wanted desperately to become a mother herself, against the warnings of the doctors. She died at the age of 23. This monument was her last present from her distressed parents. |
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1967
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2006
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angels, including Jesus on the cross, have been stolen
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heavy iron railing has been stolen
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 Her husband remarried, while her parents got later reunited with her in this grave, where they hoped to rest in peace. This monunent must have cost a fortune (almost the whole surface of both sides of the marble is covered with inscriptions in small letters), but what was money worth in the times to come? What was a human life worth? And, what was an (innocent) German life worth in this part of Europe? See what was to come. |
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Nowadays strange people are roaming around this family's possession (this time the last one), greedy people looking for things which they could steal and sell somewhere. Marble angels and the small Jesus on the cross were fancied by one of them, while later on, between October 2005 and July 2006, another thief has removed the heavy iron railing, knowing that the scrap dealer pays good money for so much iron. So there isn't much left to be stolen from this gravesite, which doesn't mean that it won't change. Children of the new inhabitants of Triebswetter are, according to the woman who tends our gravesites, destroying systematically the pictures on the stones. But maybe it is done on purpose, who knows? Everything is possible in fairytales. |
