Uks Eesti ajalooline kalmistu tana – Rakvere linnakalmistu

• Authors: Tiina Tuulik

Title variants

EN

A HISTORIC ESTONIAN CEMETERY TODAY: RAKVERE CITY CEMETERY

• Languages of publication: ET

Abstracts

EN

This article gives an overview of the evolution process of Rakvere city cemetery. The author analyses the spatial structure of the cemetery, which involves burial quarters, landscape and greenery. For centuries, Rakvere city cemetery has served as the last resting place for the people connected with this town. The cemetery has been expanded repeatedly, but it has finally reached its maximum possible size. This has created a necessity for new solutions, considering the increasing proportion of cremation funerals and changes in the customs related to death. The expansion of the globalising way of life gives rise to modernised funeral culture: beliefs and conceptions are modified and new traditions are being established. It is imminent that all this brings about changes in the structure of the existing historic cemeteries. The article gives recommendations for the better planning of Rakvere city cemetery in the future, in order to also preserve the old and valuable – our historic cemeteries.

Keywords

EN

cemetery; cemetery culture; cemetery structure; landscape; burial grounds

• Publisher: Folk Belief and Media Group of the Estonian Literary Museum, Estonian Institute of Folklore, EKM Teaduskirjastus
• Journal: Mäetagused
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 55
• Pages: 75-92

Contributors

author

Tiina Tuulik

• Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia pst 7, 10143 Tallinn, Estonia