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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
DESIGN AND STRUCTURE 
(special Correspondence) 
BEAUTIFUL MONUMENTAL TABLET AND LOT 
ENCLOSURE IN A GERMAN CEMETERY 
GERMAN SCULPTURED TABLET WITH SUNKEN 
INSCRIPTION. 
The cemeteries of Germany are comparatively modern, 
the burials previous to the last century being made in 
or close to the outer walls of the churches, and any one 
seeking middle age or renaissance tombs in the Vater- 
land must look for them in the minsters. Like all re- 
ligious art in southern Germany, which has remained 
Roman- Catholic in its faith, the cemeteries are the prod- 
uct of Italian ideas and influence. 
The southern cemetery of Munich, just outside the 
old city gate, which is said by Baedeker to contain the 
finest and most artistic tombstones in Germany, is typical 
of the older class. The feature of this cemetery is the 
arcade which encloses it on four sides, with columns, 
arched ceiling and paved floor. On the walls of the 
colonnade are placed elaborately sculptured monuments, 
the space between two columns being reserved for one 
family and the burials being made under the pavement 
covered by the intersecting arches. In the great open 
space enclosed by this arcade are graves in long rows, 
fronting on paths each with its monument in the- form 
of a tablet facing the grave. The graves are large, as 
close together as they can be placed, and are usually 
covered with a slab of stone. Several bodies are placed 
in each one, the names of those interred therein being 
place on the monument above it. The lower part of 
the monument is generally extended about the four sides 
of the grave, forming for it an ornamental border, and 
bronze enclosures are sometimes added to this coping. 
The cemeteries which have been laid out at a later 
time are arranged on much the same general plan, except 
that, being more extensive in area, some modifications 
have been found necessary. A high wall surrounds the 
grounds, the arcades being fewer or entirely dispensed 
with. But the monuments which before were placed- un- 
der the arcades, are now placed against the walls, with 
greenery added. But the principal effort in a decorative way 
AN ODD FORM OF GERMAN CEMETERY MONUMENT. 
