Cemetery - Village of St. Donatus Historic District - St. Donatus, Iowa
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N 42° 21.859 W 090° 32.127
15T E 702945 N 4693169
The St. Donatus Catholic Church Cemetery is located behind the church located at 97 East 1st Street in St. Donatus, Iowa.
Waymark Code: WM12MQJ
Location: Iowa, United States
Date Posted: 06/16/2020
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My Commentary:
One walks behind this unadorned gem of a Gothic Revival Church and is met by a cemetery for the faithful. The cemetery contains approximately 850 graves at the moment. The headstones range from the fancy artwork to zinc markers to the more modern slab types. This cemetery, with the town originally founded by people from Luxembourg, has many headstones in German. It is a fascinating walk to stroll through this cemetery. One must walk along the eastern edge of the cemetery to get to the gate for the Stations of the Cross.
Located at the rear of the Church, the cemetery contains monuments
of varying quality. Early headstones were made in Dubuque. Others were designed and carved from Ohio sandstone by O. Wenzler of Milwaukee. Elaborate iron crosses mark the graves of some of the parish's early members. An unusual wood monument (undated) with iron ornamentation is located in the cemetery. Perhaps the most notable monuments are those erected in memory of Father Flammang (1825 - 1883 ) and his mother, Elizabeth Schulte Flammang (1800 - 1877).
-National Registry Entry
One of the interesting Markers I found in the Cemetery:
Nicholas Palen
TIMMESCH
Nov. 13, 1926
July 11, 1985
A Journalist
From Dubuque
- Marker Text