Season ticket for eternity: Where football fans can be buried next to the stadium
My passion for Schalke 04 goes beyond life. Especially since the relatives who visit the arena at least 17 times a season, 17 times a year only
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My passion for Schalke 04 goes beyond life. Especially since the relatives who visit the arena at least 17 times a season, 17 times a year are only a few hundred meters from the cemetery. In an older interview on the project’s website, the Managing Director of the Schalke Fan Field, Ender Ulupinar, reports on the motives of the people who book a grave site here: Of course, 100 percent say: ‘I want to lie under Schalker. Home Panorama Stand: 16.07.2026, 2:47 pm Comments Follow us on Google At fan cemeteries, people can keep loyalty to their football club beyond death. © Nicola Trenz/KNA Many a football fan wants to keep loyalty to his club in heaven or hell.
Furthermore, In the mid-2000s, the Hamburg football club HSV and the main cemetery Altona went a step further and established Europe’s first official fan cemetery. Our cemetery is right at the stadium. The idea was born more than 25 years ago in the Netherlands, as Gerold Eppler reports. 30 to 35 fans are here, mostly men.
In addition, Graves in stadium appearance A bit more colorful it goes 350 kilometers further south. They said that the lawn will become patchy. But even the idea of fan cemeteries have not found many imitators, at least in Germany.
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My passion for Schalke 04 goes beyond life. Especially since the relatives who visit the arena at least 17 times a season, 17 times a year are only a few hundred meters from the cemetery.
reliability low1/2 sourcesIn an older interview on the project’s website, the Managing Director of the Schalke Fan Field, Ender Ulupinar, reports on the motives of the people who book a grave site here: Of course, 100 percent say: ‘I want to lie under Schalker.
reliability low1/2 sourcesHome Panorama Stand: 16.07.2026, 2:47 pm Comments Follow us on Google At fan cemeteries, people can keep loyalty to their football club beyond death. © Nicola Trenz/KNA Many a football fan wants to keep loyalty to his club in heaven or hell.
reliability low1/2 sourcesIn the mid-2000s, the Hamburg football club HSV and the main cemetery Altona went a step further and established Europe’s first official fan cemetery. Our cemetery is right at the stadium.
reliability low1/2 sourcesThe idea was born more than 25 years ago in the Netherlands, as Gerold Eppler reports.
reliability low1/2 sources30 to 35 fans are here, mostly men.
reliability low1/2 sourcesGraves in stadium appearance A bit more colorful it goes 350 kilometers further south.
reliability low1/2 sourcesThey said that the lawn will become patchy. But even the idea of fan cemeteries have not found many imitators, at least in Germany.
reliability low1/2 sources
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