Mountaineers' cemetery in Johnsbach
The Johnsbach mountaineering cemetery is the largest mountaineering cemetery in Austria.
Location and use
It is located in the formerly independent community of Johnsbach (today part of the market town of Admont ) in the Gesäuse in Styria .
The village cemetery around the parish church of Saint Egydius is located opposite the church ridge on the Großer Ödstein , in one of the pioneering regions of early mountaineering . A list of casualties that has been kept since 1810 contains hundreds of names. In 1885 the first mountain death was buried alongside locals. The most famous dead person is the painter Gustav Jahn . A plaque commemorates Fritz Kasparek . In 2010 the 200th anniversary of the cemetery was celebrated.
A total of 83 tourists who had died in an accident were buried in the mountaineering cemetery. As of 2016, 49 graves with 59 dead have been preserved, some of the victims were buried together in the same grave. Some graves have been dismantled over time. Some memorial plaques on the cemetery wall remind of them. There are also memorial plaques for mountaineers who are buried elsewhere but were closely connected to the Gesäuse. Some mountain rescuers have also found their final resting place here. The ensemble with numerous old, individually designed gravestones is a listed building .
literature
- Josef Hasitschka: The mountaineer cemetery in Johnsbach. Johnsbach rectory, Admont 1997.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gustav Jahn. Retrieved December 24, 2016 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 32 '30.6 " N , 14 ° 34' 55.9" E