Baumgartner cemetery
The Baumgartner Friedhof is a cemetery in the 14th district of Penzing in Vienna .
location
The Baumgartner Friedhof is located in the southeast of the Penzing district area and belongs to the Baumgarten district (cadastral community Unterbaumgarten), Waidhausenstraße 52. The cemetery is located in the north by Flötzersteig, in the west by Waidhausenstraße, in the east by the irregular Donhartgasse-Wawragasse-Stauffergasse-Donhartgasse line and bordered in the south by a green strip. The cemetery covers an area of 236,362 square meters and is home to 33,339 grave sites.
history
Today's cemetery goes back to a facility that was built in 1786 as part of the Josephine reforms in the area of today's Hütteldorfer Strasse and Seckendorfstrasse by the communities of Ober- and Unterbaumgarten. The communities equipped the cemetery with a cemetery wall and a cross and had it consecrated on January 15, 1786. The first funeral took place on February 10th. In 1839 a new death chamber was built and the wall repaired. The expansion of the cemetery to include the Unter-Waidhausen vineyard was inaugurated on October 31, 1874, by Dean Emanuel Paletz, the pastor of Hütteldorf at the time. In 1877 the cemetery was expanded again. After the Schmelzer cemetery was closed, the communities of Fünfhaus , Sechshaus and Rudolfsheim bought a plot of land measuring "six yoke 486 square fathers", partly on the Baumgartner cemetery and partly adjacent to it, in order to bury their dead here in the future. In an agreement in 1884, the communities of Baumgarten, Fünfhaus, Sechshaus and Rudolfsheim decided to create a joint cemetery. In 1888 the bodies were exhumed from the Schmelzer cemetery (Neulerchenfelder local cemetery) and transferred to a mass grave in Baumgarten.
Part of the cemetery was closed in 1884 for the construction of Hütteldorfer Straße. In 1896 this part was cleared away and leveled. In return, the cemetery was expanded three times by a total of around 54,000 m² in the 1890s. In 1902/03 the cemetery was given a grave digger's house and a covered hall (waiting room and funeral hall). City architect Josef Münster donated a large statue of Christ in 1903. At the beginning of the 20th century, the cemetery area was continually expanded, partly also through expropriations. The cemetery building had to be redesigned and renovated several times. In mid-1945 the reallocation of graves had to be stopped for reasons of space. Several measures have been taken to reallocate graves. From 1947, graves that had fallen back were reassigned, urn graves were created in 1948/49 and shaft graves were abandoned in the early 1950s and areas for expansion were rededicated. In 1964 the opening of an own urn grove followed.
After the cemetery was expanded, workers began demolishing the existing cemetery in August 1966. The new building was carried out according to the plans of the architect Josef Strelec. The interior was designed by the architect Erich Boltenstern , the artistic design by the painter Hermann Bauch . The new hall opened in 1967. From 1993 to 1995 the funeral halls were renovated and redesigned together with the ceremony rooms. In 1995 the memorial for the victims of fascism , which was created by Leopold Grausam and is located in group 1 of the cemetery, was unveiled .
On July 23, 2008, a fatal accident occurred on the cemetery grounds in which a woman was crushed by a gravestone weighing around 200 kg. This death inspired the Nobel laureate for literature, Elfriede Jelinek , who lives in Penzing, to write the text “At least the earth is light and dear to her”.
Graves of important personalities
Graves dedicated to honor
The Baumgartner Friedhof has 25 honorary graves as well as a historical grave site .
| Surname | Life dates | activity |
|---|---|---|
| Franz Binder | 1911-1989 | Soccer player |
| Leopold Brauneis | 1847-1920 | City council |
| Josef Gangl | 1868-1916 | Writer, actor |
| Franz Glaserer | 1904-1983 | Politician |
| Karl Glossy | 1848-1937 | Literary historian |
| Willy Hesch | 1860-1908 | opera singer |
| Kurt Horeischy | 1913-1945 | Chemist and resistance fighter |
| Ernst Jirgal | 1905-1956 | Teacher and writer |
| Josef Ferdinand artist | 1792-1857 | Pastor of Reindorf |
| Trude Mally | 1928-2009 | Singer and Dudler |
| Rudolf Much | 1862-1936 | Germanist |
| Dionys Schönecker | 1888-1938 | Soccer player and official |
| Friedrich Schönpflug | 1873-1951 | Painter and caricaturist |
| Rolf Schwendter | 1939-2013 | writer |
| Friederike Seidl | 1936-1987 | politician |
| Heinrich Swoboda | 1861-1923 | Theologian and art historian |
| Johann Tabarelli | 1898-1956 | Writer and journalist |
| Karl Terkal | 1919-1996 | Opera singer ( historical grave site ) |
| Gerhard Weissenberg | 1920-1980 | Politician |
| Maria Weith | 1884-1950 | painter |
| Heinrich Zita | 1882-1951 | sculptor |
Graves of other personalities
Other important personalities buried at the Baumgartner Friedhof:
| Surname | Life dates | activity |
|---|---|---|
| Hanns Abele | 1941-2016 | Economist |
| Wilhelm Alzinger | 1928-1998 | archaeologist |
| Edmund Daniek | 1892-1966 | writer |
| Leopold German | 1853-1930 | actor |
| Auguste Dick | 1910-1993 | Math historian |
| Louis Dité | 1891-1969 | composer |
| Irmgard Egger | 1953-2015 | Germanist |
| Ernst Exner | 1934-2019 | Broadcast journalist |
| Anton Figl | 1895-1963 | Politician |
| Alfred Eduard Forschneritsch | 1872-1917 | writer |
| Anton Frisch | 1889-1963 | Politician |
| Franz Glaserer | 1904-1983 | Politician |
| Wolfgang Glüxam | 1958-2020 | Harpsichordist |
| Alfred Heinrich | 1930-2016 | author |
| Karl Hirschbold | 1908-1994 | Language carer |
| Erich Hofstetter | 1912-1987 | Politician |
| Oskar Huemer | 1916-1993 | Politician |
| Erich Kabesch | 1905-1992 | Politician |
| Götz Kauffmann | 1949-2010 | actor |
| Johann M. Kauffmann | 1910-1965 | Organ builder |
| Rupert Karner | 1896-1928 | Motorcycle racer |
| Josef Klein | 1870-1933 | composer |
| Ernst Klimt | 1864-1892 | Painter, brother of Gustav Klimt |
| Josef Kohout | 1915-1994 | Concentration camp survivor |
| Alfred Koerner | 1926-2020 | Soccer player |
| Robert Koerner | 1924-1989 | Soccer player |
| Franziska Krämer | 1899-1988 | politician |
| Karl Kurzmayer | 1902-1972 | camera operator |
| Wolfgang Sorrow | 1935-2007 | physicist |
| Fritz Leitermeyer | 1925-2006 | Composer and violinist |
| Hannes Lintl | 1924-2003 | architect |
| Gerhard May | 1898-1980 | Evangelical Lutheran bishop |
| Gerhard May | 1940-2007 | Evangelical Lutheran church historian |
| Armin Medosch | 1962-2017 | Media artist |
| Erich Miksch | 1901-1970 | General Director |
| Maria Mizzaro | 1925-2009 | Graphic designer and photographer |
| Anton Moser | 1872-1909 | Singer |
| Wilhelm Neusser | 1924-1994 | Politician, city council |
| Rudolf Nussgruber | 1918-2001 | Director |
| Camillo Öhlberger | 1921-2013 | Bassoonist and author |
| Bobby Pirron | 1918-2007 | Musician, Duo Pirron and Knapp |
| Franz Rauscher | 1900-1988 | Politician |
| Andre Roder | 1900-1959 | sculptor |
| Gunter Schnaubelt | 1942-2012 | Football referee |
| Karl Schwerzek | 1848-1918 | sculptor |
| Herbert Steininger | 1933-2005 | jurist |
| Mimi Stelzer | 1900-1957 | actress |
| Karl Sterrer | 1844-1918 | sculptor |
| Joe Trummer | 1922-2007 | actor |
| Walter Zeman | 1927-1991 | Soccer national goalie |
| Heinz Zemanek | 1920-2014 | Computer pioneer |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Baumgarten cemetery ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of Friedhöfe Wien GmbH, accessed on November 30, 2008
- ^ ORF Vienna - woman killed by tombstone
- ↑ Elfriede Jelinek: At least the earth is light and dear to her
- ↑ Friedhöfe Wien GmbH - Graves of the Baumgarten cemetery dedicated to honor , February 2016 (PDF, accessed on July 22, 2016; 54 kB)
literature
- Herta Wohlrab: Penzing. History of the 14th district of Vienna and its old places . Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-224-16209-0 , pp. 153–154
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 11 ″ N , 16 ° 16 ′ 55 ″ E