Cologne Symposium of the Digital Cemetery 2023
From October 12th to 13th, 2023, the Cologne Symposium on the Digital Cemetery took place, a prestigious event that was fully booked with over 120 participants from public, ecclesiastical, and private cemetery administrations. Professionals and decision-makers from the cemetery sector gathered to discuss the future of cemetery management in the digital age. The Importance of […]
The importance of digitization in cemetery management
PBSGEO presents its friedhofsplan.com platform, a key tool for the modernization of processes. The German company PBSGEO, headquartered in Cologne, unveils in our country the platform friedhofsplan.com, which leads the digitization of cemeteries in Germany. The application can be integrated to all relevant cemetery databases, achieving an encrypted and automated synchronization of these in the […]
Cologne-based company “PBS Geo” presents digital cemetery map
The “Digital Cemetery” Symposium at the Cologne Mediapark pondered the societal shift in mourning and remembrance. From mountaineering to ultramarathons – Lieselotte Müller, a housekeeper who lived from 1934 to 2017, had a penchant for extreme sports. Particularly notable was a skydiving jump from 4100 meters high that she accomplished at an advanced age. This […]
Digital cemetery map offers help with orientation
Online Information about Deceased Locations and Available Graves Erkrath – Visitors to the cemeteries in Erkrath can now get an overview of the respective municipal cemeteries in Alt-Erkrath and Hochdahl even before their arrival. At www.erkrath.friedhofsplan.de, interested parties can now access a digital cemetery plan that provides orientation assistance. Additionally, the graves of deceased individuals […]
Digital changes: workflows in practice
The digitization of processes in cemeteries brings many advantages, but a few disadvantages should also be taken into account. Sabine Meißner in conversation with Stefan Schumacher. Stefan Schumacher, founder and managing director of PBSGEO GmbH in Cologne, enthusiastically advocated for the digitization of cemeteries as a speaker at the FUNUS Foundation Symposium (see also Friedhofskultur […]
Tree inspection under control
With pg_baum and pg_grün, the Cologne-based company pbsgeo offers a software package with which entire facilities can be viewed holistically and thus managed economically. From an administrative point of view, parks and communal recreational areas are infrastructural facilities on which various investment objects are combined, such as: As different as the properties are, they have […]
Public-Private Partnership with friedhofsplan.com
How to make the work of cemetery administrations simpler and more efficient while improving collaboration with partners for various trades? The foundation for such improvements is provided by friedhofsplan.de. Benefits for the cemetery administration The digital cemetery map is the tool that significantly simplifies workflows in cemetery administrations. Just by quickly and easily locating grave […]
Visualizing local history
The example of the municipality of Montabaur shows how cemetery administrations can use digital cemetery plans to tell and illustrate regional history on site. In August 2020, the Cologne-based company PBSGEO was awarded the contract to create digital cemetery plans for the municipality of Montabaur in Rhineland-Palatinate. In the data acquisition process, grave data from […]
Digitalization in cemetery administration: From paper plans to online reservation of sponsored graves
The majority of cemetery administrations still work with paper plans. This was also the case for the town of Schorndorf in the Rems-Murr district until 2020. This article describes how the town of Schorndorf moved from a paper plan to a digital cemetery plan. The cemetery administration of the town of Schorndorf has been using […]
The digitalization of cemetery management with friedhofsplan.com
friedhofsplan.com is Germany’s leading cemetery cadastre. It has been developed by the Cologne-based company PBSGEO for around ten years and can be linked to all relevant cemetery databases. Data synchronization is server-based, encrypted and automated in the background. friedhofsplan.com can be used on any internet-enabled device (desktop PCs, tablets and smartphones). This means that the […]
