Plague pit

The plague cemetery was from the Middle Ages away from the population centers landscaped cemetery for rapid burial of plague victims, especially those of the plague. He added so that as a rule the cemetery, where the dead were usually buried with a religious ceremony.

During the period of such epidemics, the victims were buried quickly and often without any ceremony, some in mass graves. It was only after resolution of disease common church ceremonies for all those buried were often rescheduled.

Many Pestfriedhöfe were closed in the 19th century at the latest, usually even earlier; sometimes they were, however, continued to be used, such as the formerly used by deaconesses in Radebeul- Kötzschenbroda old cemetery, which is (see also List of cemeteries in Radebeul # Former Pestfriedhöfe ) open as a burial site today.

Germany

• Pestfriedhof cell, Eisenberg, Allgäu
• Suspected plague cemetery in front of the Danish goal, Kiel, with at least 100 skeletons
• On a former meadow in Tanna
• Pestfriedhof Welbergen, City Ochtrup, North Rhine-Westphalia.

Czechia

Among the well-preserved or restored Pestfriedhöfen of Zdar nad Sázavou part of the Czech Republic.