Since April 1st, the coffin requirement has been lifted in Bavaria. So that this works according to the rules of the rite and the hygienic ordinances, the cemetery administration team trains its staff with a doll. For some believers, the coffin-free burial is a signal.
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Andrea Schlaier, Munich
The scene is irritating: four men in long black coats, black peaked caps and white face masks push a coffin wagon in lockstep across a path in the Westfriedhof. You stop in front of an open pit, remove the cover of the simple wooden coffin and reach inside. Using the loops of a sling, they lift out a body wrapped in white linen and partially encircled by black belts and bed it on a kind of ladder that lies above the grave. The rung is gently pulled away and the body is slowly lowered 1.80 meters. At the bottom, the base sole is beveled so that the wrapped person automatically comes to rest on the right shoulder. With a view to the southeast, towards Mecca. There is no corpse in the light-colored fabric, but a dummy from the Munich cemetery administration.