Malvazinky cemetery
The Malvazinky Cemetery (Czech Hřbitov Malvazinky , also Smíchov Cemetery ) is located in Smíchov , a district of the Czech capital Prague west of the Vltava River . The cemetery church is dedicated to the apostles Philip and James.
history
The municipality of Smíchov bought the land to build a cemetery in 1875 and commissioned Antonín Viktor Barvitius to design it. The neo-Romanesque church was consecrated in 1896 . At the cemetery gate there is a 6 meter high baroque column with a sundial.
The New Jewish Cemetery Smíchov , laid out in 1903 and measuring 6205 m², is run as an independent section of the cemetery , on which there are around 800 tombstones .
Personalities
Among other things, the following are buried on the more than seven hectare area:
- Jakub Arbes (1840–1914), journalist and writer
- Egon Bondy (1930–2007), philosopher and writer
- Josefina Čermáková (1849–1895), actress
- Karel Gott (1939–2019), singer
- Jan Janský (1873–1921), doctor and psychiatrist
- Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic (1871–1951), writer
- Ladislav Klíma (1878–1928), philosopher and poet
- Kajetán Matoušek (1910–1994), auxiliary bishop of the underground church
- Antonie Nedošinská (1885–1950), actress
- Antonin Novotny (1904–1975), President of the ČSSR
- Ondřej Sekora (1899–1967), children's author, illustrator
- Milan Tošnar (1925–2016), runner
- Hermann Ungar (1893–1929), writer
- František Veselý (1943–2009), footballer
- Čeněk Vosmík (1860–1944), sculptor
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Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 42.8 " N , 14 ° 23 ′ 12.8" E