Upper city cemetery

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Row of graves at the Upper City Cemetery
Mortuary at the Upper City Cemetery
Soviet war graves at the Upper City Cemetery

The Obere Stadtfriedhof , also known as the Obere Stadt cemetery , is a municipal cemetery in Klosterneuburg in Lower Austria .

investment

The Obere Stadtfriedhof is located at Meynertgasse 39–41 on the slope of the Buchberg . It has several historicist and classicist grave monuments, such as those of the Babo, Emmerich and Meynert, Ernst, Schroft and Stockert families. There is a Soviet war cemetery from the Second World War on the site . The high cemetery cross is made of cast iron .

The neo-Romanesque cemetery chapel is the work of the architect Carl Roesner . Below the simple, square-shaped building is a canon crypt. The chapel has large arched windows and a portal with the coat of arms of Klosterneuburg Monastery . The interior has a ribbed vault and a large mural by Leopold Kupelwieser showing the resurrection of the dead .

The baroque cemetery portal facing Friedhofgasse was created by the sculptor Lorenzo Mattielli , who also designed the Pietà in the cloister of Klosterneuburg Abbey. Part of the portal is a group of sculptures: likewise a Pietà, which is worshiped by angels, and poor souls in purgatory . There are also symbols of transience such as skulls and bones attached to the gate .

The cemetery is a listed building .

history

The Upper City Cemetery was moved to its current location in 1844, three years after the Lower City Cemetery on Martinstrasse. He had previously been at Stiftsplatz. The baroque cemetery portal, which originally dates from 1734, was also transferred. The cemetery chapel was built in 1846. The cemetery was expanded at the beginning of the 20th century.

Well-known personalities buried here

Grave of Franz Horst
Anton Lehar's grave
Surname Life dates activity
Eugen Bormann 1842-1917 Ancient historian and epigraphist
Walter Breisky 1871-1944 Civil servant and politician
Fritz Eckhardt 1907-1995 Actor, writer, singer and director
Alfred Finger 1855-1936 violinist
Franz Horst 1862-1950 Portrait, landscape and military painter
Karl Borromeo Landsteiner 1835-1909 Theologian and writer
Wilhelm Marinelli 1894-1973 Zoologist, anatomist and popular educator
Anton Lehár 1876-1962 officer
Theodor Meynert 1833-1892 Psychiatrist, neurologist and neuroanatomist
Franz Poledne 1873-1932 Painter and illustrator
Otto Riedel 1906-1991 Painter and draftsman
Leonhard Roesler 1839-1910 Chemist and oenologist

literature

Web links

Commons : Oberer Stadtfriedhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Lower Austria south of the Danube . Berger, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-364-X , p. 1091 .
  2. ↑ Heinz Arnberger, Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider (ed.): Commemoration and dunning in Lower Austria. Reminder signs of resistance, persecution, exile and liberation . 2nd Edition. Mandelbaum, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85476-367-3 , p. 634 ( doew.at [PDF; accessed on March 23, 2020]).
  3. ↑ a b Marterl overview. Klosterneuburg Improvement Association, accessed on March 23, 2020 .
  4. ^ Lower Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. (PDF) Federal Monuments Office , February 14, 2020, accessed on February 24, 2020 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 3.2 ″  N , 16 ° 19 ′ 10 ″  E