Posted June 11, 200619 yr I went to Spring Grove Cemetery for the first time today. I posted a thread here, but there were three monuments that really struck me, and I wanted to treat them in detail. These are monuments for the Edwards, Fritz and Erkenbecher families. First, Edwards: Next, the Fritz monument: And finally, the Erkenbrecher monument. This may have been my favorite - copper statuary has such a beauty to it, and this piece uses it so well...
November 13, 200816 yr Great photos of an absolutely stunning cemetery. I'm amazed that this one slipped through the cracks with no comments.
November 13, 200816 yr Spring Grove is such a beautiful place...it's one of the last places I went before leaving for school this summer.
November 13, 200816 yr Fredrick Law Olmstead (Father of American Landscape Architecture) said that Spring Grove is one of the best example of a romantic landscape design in the world. I agree with him
November 14, 200816 yr Does anyone know anything about the families/individuals whose memorials these are? The first one (Edwards) clearly has a lot of maritime references. The second one (Fritz) has a lot of stuff going on, but except for the anchor, I can't make out what most of it is supposed to represent. The third one escapes me entirely. Perhaps someone fluent in German could figure it out. When those monuments were created, any one of them likely cost more than a simple house to shelter a poor family. Then as now, the very affluent were largely isolated from the plight of the less fortunate.
November 14, 200816 yr An amazing park (yes, park). "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
November 14, 200816 yr Does anyone know anything about the families/individuals whose memorials these are? The first one (Edwards) clearly has a lot of maritime references. The second one (Fritz) has a lot of stuff going on, but except for the anchor, I can't make out what most of it is supposed to represent. The third one escapes me entirely. Perhaps someone fluent in German could figure it out. When those monuments were created, any one of them likely cost more than a simple house to shelter a poor family. Then as now, the very affluent were largely isolated from the plight of the less fortunate. Many of the people in this cemetary are local big whig families. While I don't know the family history of most of these Last names, I know that Edwards is the street in Hyde Park that the Square is on, among other things on Edwards, and I think Erkenbecher is a street on the West Side, though I could be mistaken. Going through the cemetary you see names such as Carew, and Proctor, and other Cincinnati institutions...pretty cool.
November 15, 200816 yr Great photos and such a lovely place! Can anyone translate the German on the Erkenbrecher monument? I only know a couple of the words! =-0(
November 18, 200816 yr I always got this strange feeling when I went inside that cemetary. It's pretty eerie. But you feel like you're a part of history.
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