[Culturechat] Re: Idyll Culture Chat

[Peter Haggart]

Thanks for the information Vance ----

As you recall I ran into the cemetery problem while visiting an ancestral
church near Bern a few years ago - looking for graves and markers of members
of my family. But found nothing but new - 1950s on - graves in the cemetery.
We even look all around the church yard (different location from cemetery)
and could find no markers. Vance provided the answer and I must admit that I
like the way the Swiss do it - ashes to ashes, dust to dust ---------

Pete
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vance Roy" <gigli.saw@dplanet.ch>
To: "Robert W. Miller" <rwm1029@chartertn.net>
Cc: "culturechat" <culturechat@untours.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 2:00 AM
Subject: [Culturechat] Re: Idyll Culture Chat


> Bob Miller is an Idyller who has visited Sachseln with his Old Timer's
> Hiking Club from East Tennessee. He had some questions after the visit
> and suggested that I send a copy of the answers to the chat too.
>
>   What is the
> > correct spelling of the luscious dish we had at the Old Timers lunch on
> > the mountain behind Sachseln?  I've seen several versions and would
> > prefer to be correct when I mention it.
>
>
> Alpen Maggaronen, sometimes Alper Maggaronen
>
>
> > Item two.  What are the correct names for the various kinds of
> > "gondolas"we use in Switzerland?  There the big 80-100 passenger type,
> > the four person enclosed type and the open chair type and maybe some
> > others that I have yet to see.  Again, I would like to be correct when I
> > attempt to identify one.
>
>
> Largest= Luftseilbahn (air rope train)
> Middle= Gondelbahn
> Smaller= Sesselbahn
> Funicular= Cable towed train
>
>  Third, refresh my memory regarding burial practices In Switzerland.  Is
> > cremation practiced?  Widely, if at all?  What at the particulars about
> > how long the body gets to use the space?  Is it custom or law?
>
>
> Crematoriums run 24 hours a day here. Ashes are placed in urns in some
> cemeteries. It is an unasked question of ash disposal in other ways.
> Lots are scattered in the mountains, lakes, etc. No one investigates
> this illegal activity. If not cremated, there is no embalming. In
> Sachseln, one gets the use of a grave for 25 years. After that, it is
> refreshed for the next person. Wooden caskets, no vaults, and a damp
> climate see to it that at most, after 25 years, there may be a thigh
> bone left. It is a local regulation. A cemetery in Germany that I
> visited, leaves the grave for 40 years.
>
>
>
> > How about the support of churches?  I have seen innumerable beautiful
> > church buildings in Switzerland but almost no use of them.  Also I can't
> > ever remember seeing one where there weren't FRESH flowers present, even
> > in the little chapel at Schwarzsee above Zermatt.
>
>
> Church attendance parallels that of the USA. There is a religion tax
> which is quite small. You specify catholic, protestant, or atheist on
> your tax form (atheists do not have to pay).
>
>
> > If you are going to take the time to respond, you might as well put your
> > comments on Culture Chat so that others can enjoy them.
> >
>
> > Bob Miller
> >
>
>
> Vance Roy
> gigli.saw@dplanet.ch.
>
>
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