Grave decorations set up for the funeral of a Gypsy (Lovari) in a Cologne cemetery. These represent the hobbies of the deceased: playing cards, horse racing, and billiards.
(November 2016)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Begräbnis, #funeral, #Grabschmuck, #grave_decorations, #Zigeuner, #Gypsies, #Lovara, #Rom, #Friedhof, #cemetery, #Köln

A fresh grave with the grave decoration that had been set up at the funeral. The deceased is a Gypsy, probably from the Lovara tribe (Rom Gypsies).
(at a cemetery in Frankfurt am Main)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Friedhof, #cemetery, #Beerdigung, #funeral, #Zigeuner, #Gypsies, #Rom, #Lovara, #Frankfurt_am_Main

The family gravesite of an actual German Gypsy family of the Lovara tribe (Rom-Gypsies), which partly stayed in Poland as the result of WW II, but partly emigrated to Germany (in Nowe Miasto Lubawskie - former German name: Neumark in West Prussia).
(March 2015)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Friedhöfe, #cemeteries, #Grabstätten, #mausoleum, #Zigeuner, #Gypsies, #Lovara, #Nowe_Miasto_Lubawskie, #Neumark_in_Westpreußen, #Polen, #Poland

The mausoleum of a Gypsy family from the Lovara tribe (Rom) in a cemetery in Frankfurt am Main.
The interior is reminiscent of a living room.
(January 2017)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Friedhof, #cemetery, #Mausoleum, #Zigeuner, #Gypsies, #Lovara, #Rom, #Frankfurt_am_Main

Has nothing to do with marriage, but is part of the grave decorations at a Gypsy (Lovara) funeral in Cologne.
(November 2016)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Friedhöfe, #cemeteries, #Beerdigungen, #funerals, #Zigeuner, #Gypsies, #Lovara