Tuesday, February 21, 2012

A Guy And His Neoclassical Stove - Together Forever

This unusual, oddly touching cemetery monument is in the Melatenfriedhof in Köln, Deutschland. I'll tell you what the words say in German first, then English:

Hier ruht in Frieden
August Broichenschüt
1822 - 1874
Die meiste Zeit seines Lebens
verbrachte er in eine Kneipe
neben diesem neoklassiztischen
Saulenofen worauf der Wirt diese
Denkmal errichte

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Here rests in peace
August Broichenschütz
1822 - 1874
Who spent most of his life
in a tavern next to this neoclassical
column stove, which is why the owner of the tavern
erected this monument


Stolen from Alan Parker's Facebook Page

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