Frickenhausen cemetery extension Construction of an urn wall with the creation of urn fields

The market town of Frickenhausen is planning the construction of an urn wall and the creation of a further 20 urn fields in section D of the existing cemetery.



When planning the internal expansion of the urn fields, it is taken into account that Frickenhausen cemetery has a certain park character and that this will be preserved.

For this reason, only existing lawn areas will be used for the expansion of the urn fields, which will not be completely filled with graves.



When laying out the urn fields adjacent to the existing urn fields, seven further urn fields will be created; a further three urn fields are planned symmetrically to the new urn wall.

The family burial plots 6/1 to 6/5 are divided up with shell limestone borders.

This means that ten more urn plots can be provided in section D of Frickenhausen cemetery.



For the construction of an urn wall, the location already determined in Frickenhausen cemetery in section D is selected.



The urn wall is planned as a stepped exposed concrete wall, which will be faced with shell limestone after completion.




With this shell limestone facing, the new urn wall blends in very well with the cemetery's ensemble of shell limestone paths and squares, shell limestone grave borders and the shell limestone fountain, as well as two shell limestone benches and wooden supports.




According to the mayor's wishes, the new urn wall should not simply be a straight wall, but something new.




This is where the idea of stepping the urn boxes back 20 cm to allow relatives to place vases or bowls came about.



The new urn wall for the Frickenhausen cemetery is planned as a concrete wall with the arrangement of prefabricated urn boxes made of precast concrete elements for two or four urn capsules with corresponding natural stone cover plates.

The exact arrangement of the urn boxes was jointly determined in the further course of planning.



From a design point of view, and in order to respond to the existing cemetery as a whole, this internal extension of the urn fields and the new urn wall will not disrupt the character and image of the "lawn cemetery".