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.

funeral in eastern slovakia, SK

so sad, my youngest cousin roland is dead. he went from us after a short dread disease 😢😭😢

cemetery ('totengarten' as the locals say) in einsiedel an der göllnitz (mnisek nad hnilcom), 

region spis (zips) in the slovak ore mountains (slovenske rudohorie SK, ungarisches erzgebirge DE), which are part of the western carpathian mountains (karpaty), slovakia, SK

well, it was my 1st visit in slovakia this year. and for such a sad reason. although it was due to the mad corona regulations in SK for me not possible to come earlier, i would appreciate any other situation 😢.... well, funeral is one of the few exceptions, when not vaccinated people can come into the country without the mandatory 2 weeks in quarantine. there is 'only' a negative PCR test needed.

it is difficult to find any words which describe the pain caused by roland's sudden death ... so i will present only few pictures made...

 

the valley i love so much, my happy first view from the uhorna pass (999 m).

the first village is called uhorna today, the former german name was ahorn.

the lake uhorna is really cold all year long. it was buid for mining industry few hundred years ago on the creek schmöllnitzer bach named by the small nearby city of schmöllnitz (smolnik).

evangelic church in einsiedel an der göllnitz

'glück auf' means good luck and it was and is the ore miners' salute

einsiedel an der göllnitz was settled by german settlers in 1230.

in the 16th century became the majority of the inhabitants evangelic.

spitzenberg mountain and the CATHOLIC church in einsiedl an der göllnitz

spitznberg and the EVANGELIC church directly below the mountain in einsiedel / einsiedl

this picture is not ment as a joke as it would be not appropriate in this sad situation.
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as the picture shows a cemetery and if i shoud sometimes look for a cemetery / funeral picture for some blogger-related reason i would probably find it in this google album first. the original 'message' was:

if someone pays enough, she would cry bitterly and grieve about his/her death at a funeral...

bratislava (pressburg)

mother + son

father + son

(very) few more pictures here.

RIP, dear ROLAND 💖