Cemeteries and urban form: a historico-geographcial approach

Research in urban morphology rarely takes account of the specific forms of burial grounds. This paper offers a synthesis of how Christian cities of the dead mirror the cities of the living, and provides an overview of different Western European 'funeral epochs'. The shifting location of burial grounds realtes to major changes in town planning and building. Adopting a historico-geographical approach, micro-morphological transformatins of grave-plot forms and their cardinal orientations and accessibility are explored in the context of changing religious beliefs, rules of hygiene, and practical and aesthetic consideration. The role of cemeteries in fringe-belt development is presented, using Vienna as a historical case study

Biedermänner - und keine Brandstifter

Les frontières de l'indépendance. Le Luxembourg entre 1815 et 1839 - Die Grenzen der Unabhängigkeit. Luxemburg zwischen 1815 und 1839 (Sonderausstellung

Practices of expulsion and moral discourse in Luxembourg. Prostitution as a threat to public order and safety according to the records of the grand-ducal administrative bodies (1880-1940)

Disciplinary and regulatory governmental proceedings intersect, for instance when disciplinary rules and judiciary norms operate on the basis of suspicion and there-fore just happen to disenfranchise certain groups of people. The case study of Luxembourg’s practice of expulsion before the Second World War offers insights into the administration of ‘undesirable foreigners’ which was based on identifying women who supposedly infringed bourgeois moral gender order. Women from abroad of dubious reputation could become a double threat to bourgeois norms and values. Based on extensive research on archival funds, this article seeks to shed light on the intersecting quality of gendering foreigners and ethnicizing prostitutes in a self-reinforcing bureaucratic procedure leading to deportation

Addressing seeming paradoxes by embracing them: small state theory and the integration of migrants

This article examines the integration of migrants in Luxembourg within the framework of small state theory. Within the comparative scholarship on migration, small states are often presented as “success stories.” This research questions this assumption and empirical data presented here indicates that many contradictions exist within Luxembourg’s migrant integration model. The country’s “success” in fact does not reflect the levels of integration of migrants nationally as significant inequalities are present in Luxembourg. However, the analysis of Luxembourg presented here illustrates how small states have coherently embraced many paradoxes that are inherent to integration strategies throughout Europe with the goal of promoting peaceful coexistence

Co-Creating Ritual Spaces and Communities:An Analysis of Municipal Cemetery Tongerseweg, Maastricht, 1812-2020

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Phnom Penh: planned and un-planned

City planning and land use in Phnom Penh: looking back from "now" to "then". Space is a social product and the production of city space in particular is a cooperative act, combining town planning from "above" and individual land use from "below". Therefore, any dichotomy of "planned" versus "un-planned" is a false one. Looking back from Phnom Penh's "now" (after the fall of the Khmer Rouge-regime" to "then" (colonial times), this lecture will highlight the on-going production of spatial relations between "planning from above" and "from below" as grass-rooted urban planning

Funerary Culture and Modernisation in the State of Luxembourg (1800-2000)

This article discusses funerary politics in relationship to the political culture of the small state of Luxembourg in northwest Europe during the age of modernisation. During the long 19th century, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg experienced several political changes which affected sepulchral culture, but this did not lead to a ‘ Kulturkamp’ over cemeteries between the Chuch and the States as it occurred in neighbour countries. Disputes were resolved at the local level. We apply small power theory to explain the relatively harmonious co-existence of State power with the Catholic clergy, and to highlight the important role of local government. For the top-down introduction of cremation, we need to change scale and focus on an urban elite setting the national agenda. Luxembourg was one of the last member states of the European Union to place burial and cremation on an equal legal footing and its own ‘ national’ crematorium only opened in the 1990s.Culture funéraire et modernisation au Luxembourg (1800-2000). Cet article porte sur les politiques funéraires et la culture politique d’un petit État dans le nord-ouest de l’Europe durant l’âge de la modernisation. Au long du XIXe siècle, le Grand-Duché de Luxembourg fit l’expérience de plusieurs changements politiques qui conditionnèrent les habitudes funéraires, mais le pays ne connut pas de ‘Kulturkampf’ entre l’Église et l’État, autour des cimetières, comme dans les pays voisins. Les conflits furent résolus au niveau local. Nous utilisons les théories sur les petits États pour expliquer la coexistence relativement harmonieuse entre le pouvoir de l’État et le clergé catholique, ainsi que le rôle important du gouvernement local. L’analyse de l’introduction de la crémation au Grand-Duché nécessite un changement d’échelle : le focus doit être mis sur une élite urbaine qui déterminait la politique nationale. Le Grand-Duché de Luxembourg fut l’un des derniers pays de l’Union Européenne à légaliser la crémation et le premier crématorium luxembourgeois ne fut ouvert que dans les années 1990.Funeraire cultuur en modernisering in Luxemburg (1800-2000). Dit artikel onderzoekt het beleid inzake funeraire cultuur in relatie tot de politieke cultuur van de kleine staat Luxemburg in Noordwest-Europa tijdens de 19e en 20e eeuw. Tijdens de lange 19e eeuw onderging het Groothertogdom Luxemburg verschillende politieke veranderingen die een impact hadden op de begrafeniscultuur, maar het land kende geen cultuurstrijd tussen Staat en Kerk rond het beheer van begraafplaatsen zoals in de buurlanden. Conflicten werden op het lokale niveau opgelost. We maken gebruik van theorieën uit internationaal onderzoek naar kleine natiestaten om de harmonieuze verhouding tussen Staat en Kerk in Luxemburg te verklaren, en de belangrijke rol van lokale overheden te belichten. Voor de analyse van de introductie van crematie in Luxemburg, dienen we onze observatieschaal te verschuiven naar het nationale niveau met een urbane elite die het beleid uitstippelde. Luxemburg was één van de laatste landen van de Europese Unie waar crematie wettelijk werd geregeld en pas in de jaren 1990 opende het eerste Luxemburgse crematorium de deuren.Kolnberger Thomas. Funerary Culture and Modernisation in the State of Luxembourg (1800-2000). In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 95, fasc. 4, 2017. Histoire Médiévale, Moderne et Contemporaine – Middleleeuwse, Moderne en Hedendaagse Geschiedenis. pp. 849-873

Monetary policy without its own currency? Luxembourg in the penumbra of the Latin Monetary Union (1865–1914/1926) and the German Customs Union (1842–1919)

peer reviewedLocated between two large economic and currency blocs, the small state of Luxembourg managed to take an intermediate position in monetary policy issues during the major reorganization of the continental European currency areas in the second half of the 19th century. In an independent way, the Grand Duchy followed currency convergence and harmonization measures instigated both by the German side and by the Latin Monetary Union led by France. By issuing coins without precious metal value, the country generated a source of state income. One could speak of an early sovereignty niche in this context. However, Luxembourg’s coinage strategy mainly aimed at providing an adequate circulation of small change for its economy and administration. Keywords: Luxembourg, 19th century, monetary policy, small money, small state, seigniorage JEL Codes: N13, E42, E5