Wednesday, October 30, 2019

SZATMARCSEKE GRAVE MARKERS TELKIBANYA HUNGARY

ATLAS OBSCURA - SZATMARCSEKE GRAVE MARKERS

EXCERPT: Szatmarcseke is a small village in Hungary, located close to the border with Ukraine.  IT contains a rather peculiar cemetery, where nearly all the approximately 600 grave markers are carved from dark oak in the shape of upturned boats bearing human like faces. ...  (The cemetery also contains the marble tombs of the Kolcsey family, including that of Ference Kolcsey, a Hungarian poet and politician who wrote the Hungarian national anthe and died there in 1838)

Imagine picking out the tree wood that will once day be your tomb marker!