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For all flesh is like grass

Only three plants are acceptable in the graveyard: grass, ivy and the lime tree, the national tree of the Czechs, may be planted here. The graveyard between Karl Marx Platz and Kirchhofstrasse is unique in Berlin. Strictly separated are men and women – or rather brothers and sisters, as the members of the Moravian Church call themselves – buried in white coffins, following the traditional rules of the community. The obituaries read out at the funeral have been written by the deceased themselves in their lifetime.