CEMETERIES STONE WALLS IN BAVARIA

The walls of Vernacular cemeteries are the very oldest and most honest magic lines in cataster maps. They are also documents of the capturing of the ground out of the common landscape.
Besides, their oval, polygonal form is a document of the oldest Christian imaginations of faith of reliquaries, faith of resurection by the aid of Saints, whose bones are enclosed in the table of the church.
The little distance of the buried person to the reliquary was the guarantee for the praying of the Saints in heaven. The walls of cemeteries are also always documents of a lot of superstition and archaic religous imaginations. The following development of these polygonal walls to the square forms of "Composanto" is a long exciting story, which single steps can be observed very well in Bavaria. Also the development of th wooden fences come from old, since a long time yet destructed, fences of cowboys.
The history of singular forms of massive stone walls with very specific roofs is very interesting.