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Café Kränzchen
The cemetery café ‘Café Kränzchen’ is open from April to October. There, volunteers work alongside staff at two cemeteries in Stuttgart – the Main Cemetery and the Prag Cemetery – to create a special place to pause and socialise. They set up tables and chairs and invite cemetery visitors and passers-by to linger and strike up a conversation over coffee and homemade cake.
Café Kränzchen
- Areas of focus: Interaction
- Who we support:
- Older cemetery visitors who come on their own and would like to meet others
- Passers-by
- People in the neighbourhood
- Year founded:
- Prag Cemetery 2023
- Main Cemetery 2025
- Number of volunteers: A total of around 60 people are involved (around 30 volunteers and cake bakers per cemetery)
What we achieve
Café Kränzchen reduces social isolation, strengthens the sense of community and encourages people to get involved and volunteer. Every week, more than 80 guests visit our cafés, which have been lovingly designed. Under the large trees, they find a special place where they feel welcome, can strike up conversations and make new friends. The topics of death and grief are ever-present, yet they feel much easier to deal with amidst the beautiful natural surroundings and in the company of others.
That’s what sets us apart
Everyone talks about loneliness; we create more opportunities for people to meet. The passer-by walking home from nursery with her child is just as welcome to take part in our free activities as the elderly man visiting his wife’s grave with a bouquet of roses. Also worth highlighting is the successful collaboration with the City of Stuttgart’s Cemetery Department and the parish churches to ‘bring to life’ this ‘third place’ with activities designed to combat loneliness.
What our volunteers say
Manfred
Angelika
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