Museumsfriedhof Kramsach in Kramsach, Austria

Nobody is buried in the museum cemetery. There is an extraordinary collection of authentic old grave monuments, which originally adorned graves, mainly in the German-speaking Alpine region. The incredibly irreverent sayings, mostly in rhyme, about life, death or long-kept family secrets of the deceased, are striking. Such grave inscriptions were not only used in Tyrol, but can be found in many places in Europe, America and Australia. This custom came to mainland Europe from England around the 17th century. Such irreverent inscriptions on grave monuments were common in the German-speaking Alpin

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