This sounds like a cute tradition. Alas, here in the US we only celebrate the type of holidays in which the media reports on how each year generated even more billions of $ for retailers.
Americans are incapable of having solemn holidays. Hence, all the fools on facebook who wish each other a Happy Memorial Day! Also, is there only one cemetery in Tender's town?
Yes, currently there's only 1. There have been some other smaller ones at the individual churches of the historical city parts, but they became too small as the population went up at around 1900, so the city decided to create a new bigger one, more or less on the outskirts between Zell and Maishofen.
This is the cemetery:
Zell am See's population is less than 10,000 so there would be no need for more than one municipal graveyard.
Depends. In small towns with a local church, the cemeteries are often run by the local church itself. The bigger the town is, the more likely it is that the municipality runs it on their own. Other religious groups, such as Protestants or Muslims (or Jews in Vienna) often have their own cemeteries. But in small towns, if someone of Muslim faith dies - he/she is buried at the local cemetery as well (if that's his will, or that of his relatives). I have never heard of a case, in which the Catholic Church in some small town has rejected burying a resident of another faith really.
