Austrian military cemetery in St. Jakob / Bozen

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The Austrian military cemetery in St. Jakob is one of the oldest military cemeteries in Tyrol . It is located in the part of St. Jakob belonging to the city of Bolzano .

View of the Maria-Hilf-Chapel
Memorial by Gustav Nolte with ceiling paintings by Albert Stolz

history

The cemetery was laid out in 1859 for the Austrian soldiers killed in the Sardinian War . Later, the remains of soldiers who died in the battles of 1848/49 were transferred from the Bolzano parish cemetery to St. Jakob. In the war between Austria and the emerging Italy in 1866, many wounded and dying came to Bozen. The cemetery is also the final resting place for South Tyroleans who died as Austrian soldiers in the First World War and as German soldiers in the Second World War. The Bolzano Military Veterans Association (in the South Tyrolean Black Cross and Austrian Black Cross ), founded in 1874, looks after the military cemetery.

building

Maria-Hilf chapel

The neo-Gothic cemetery chapel, built in 1897/98 according to plans by Johann Bittner, was consecrated in 1900. The altar from the 17th century comes from the chapel of the former Bozen residence Niederhaus.

cenotaph

As part of the expansion of the cemetery during the First World War, the memorial was inaugurated in 1917. The design of this pavilion with an octagonal floor plan comes from the city ​​architect Gustav Nolte . The ceiling paintings are by Albert Stolz .

  • Notice board for the expansion of the cemetery in 1917 according to plans by city architect Gustav Nolte

  • Memorial for South Tyroleans who died as Austrian soldiers in the First World War and German soldiers in the Second World War

  • Memorial plaque of the Bozen gymnastics club on the outside wall of the chapel

  • Ceiling paintings by Albert Stolz in the memorial - Storm of the Kaiserjäger with fallen bayonet

See also

literature

  • Viktor Malfér: The military cemetery in St. Jakob near Bozen , in: Der Schlern 39, 1965, pp. 317–323.
  • Viktor Malfér: Two memorials at the Bolzano military cemetery , in: Der Schlern 39, 1965, pp. 433–435.
  • Military Veterans Association Bozen (publisher): The military cemetery in Sankt Jakob near Bozen , Bozen 1983.

Web links

Commons : Austrian Military Cemetery St. Jakob  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office

Coordinates: 46 ° 27 ′ 56.5 ″  N , 11 ° 19 ′ 58.3 ″  E