funeral in poland + schloß leopoldshain aka lagow castle

funerals are sad. especially funerals of young people ... 46 .... without any previous signals for some illness ... soooo heartbreaking saaaad .... anyway, it was important to say good-bye, dear friend 🙏 and in some way even nice to meet all our polish family at this mourning ceremony ... and it was also really valuable to spend some time with our closest family in ruda bugaj in the outskirts of lodz & alexandrow lodzki in central poland.

we had to come to lodz in 1 day and we did. it is 950 km one way from munich, thus not easy at all. despite heavy rain and bad sight during the journey we were lucky to arrive after 11 hours short after 9 pm in lodz. that is perfect as we could extensively talk to my mother-in-law the very 1st day. at least at the way back we could sleep 1 night somewhere in the middle of our way. it was a nice castle hotel from 1581 called palac lagow aka lagow castle aka schloss leopoldshain just 5 km away from the polish-german-border at zgorzelec aka görlitz ....

palac lagow aka lagow castle aka schloss leopoldshain, 1581

enjoy few pictures 😄

on the road

a short break for lunch in saxony

RIP dear friend

what a beautiful cemetery in lodz ... like a park, isnt it?

the chapel of the scheibler family in the evangelic part of the central 

city cemetery (2017). there are catholic + ortodox sections, too.

just the jewish cemetery (2018) is outside the old city's center.

26 years 😥

the most old graves in the evangelic section of the cemetery are german

ruda bugaj

walking in the nature ...

flowers are the smile of the world, arent they? ... 

and maybe they even reduce the pain on funerals a little bit

czarny staw, a restaurant + event location in adamow nowy,

some 5 km behind alexandrow lodzki

schloß leopoldshain aka lagow castle close to görlitz aka zgorzelec

holba. what a tasty czech beer made from rice!

back home 🚗🕖🍀

more pictures here.

R.I.P dear MAMA

R.I.P dear MAMA (27.02.1947 - 18.07.2022).

liebe mama, ich danke dir. ruhe in frieden und ruhe sanft.

mother + son, 2019

funeral in bratislava (pressburg). combined in slovak & german language. on a beautiful sunny friday, 22.07.2022. many thanks to the evangelic pastor. she was so kind, she found so nice words and sung so nice for my mother & all of us to make the final farewell easier ...

Liebe Mama, seit meinem ersten Tag warst Du da. Jetzt hast Du Dich entschieden zu gehen 😕. Du hast Dich um mich, um uns 4 Kinder, sooo viel gekümmert und gesorgt ... für die Schule, Freizeit, Sport ... Mama, Mama, Mama, Du hast Dir oft den schwierigsten Weg ausgesucht ... Was möchte ich Dir noch sagen? Auf dem Grabstein Deiner Mutter steht: In Gottes Hand schon ohne Schmerz, schlaf ruhig, teures Mutterherz. Ich wünsche auch Dir, dass da wo Du jetzt bist es keine Sorgen, Angst, Arbeit, Schmerz oder Pflichten gibt. Nur noch Frieden, Freude, Ruhe. Und wenn Du von oben runterschaust, dann wisse, Deine Mühe war nicht umsonst .... Mama, schade dass Du gegangen bist. Mama, danke dass Du da warst. Mama, Ich liebe Dich sehr 💔

it is difficult to say anything ... of course, you have lived your life ... sometimes challenging & hard, often busy & engaged with full time work and taking care of us 4 children (and of father too 😃), but mostly happy and nice, i feel ... please know, all your effort was not in vain. THANKS FOR EVERYTHING + GOOD-BYE, DEAR MOTHER 💗😍🍀

... MORE COMING SOON OR NEVER ...

crematorium in bratislava, friday, 23.07.2022

07/2022

funeral banquet, bratislava, friday, 22.07.2022

let's try to go back in time ... can we?

06/2022 (getting stronger and laughing again 😄)

04/2022 (very weak ...)

2021

on caffeine ~ mother + me, 2020

2020

2019

2019

2018

2018, you always loved coffee + something sweet, didn't you?

2018

2017

2017

2016, you can't stop the time or ignore reality, dear mother ... 

avoiding pictures doesn't help either 😃

2016

2015

2015

1995 (?) at the frozen lake in velka kamenica, eastern slovakia, SK

thanks for our family tree (stammbaum) what you've collected, designed, painted & made for us, dear mother 😃

1965 + 1977

1968

1951 ?

all the best on your last way + good-bye, dear mama, mamicka, mother, mutter 💗💓💔💕

if the last way is a journey or if there is any soul, you will surely find the way to your beloved home spitznberg and einsiedel an der göllnitz, won't you?

+ to my home town  kosice / kaschau / kassa, where you spent the biggest part of your life, too?

many, many, many more (family) pictures here 😭

RIP, ruhe in frieden, ruhe sanft ...

eol => eof