Oberlaa cemetery
The Oberlaa cemetery is a cemetery in Vienna's 10th district of Favoriten .
location and size
The Oberlaa cemetery is located in the south of Favoriten in the Oberlaa district . It is bordered by Friedhofstraße (formerly known as "Hinterezeile") in the south, Segnerstraße in the east, the Bahnlände in the north and a row of houses on Kästenbaumgasse in the west (address: Friedhofstraße 33). The cemetery covers an area of 33,737 m² and contains 4,679 grave sites.
history
A cemetery in Oberlaa already existed in 1267. A letter from that year has been preserved in which a church in Laa was named, which as a vicariate was given parish rights and therefore also had its own cemetery. The cemetery was originally laid out around the church and extended “two fathoms into the wide street of the village” and was “enclosed by a wall from there to the corner of the school”. The old part of the cemetery around the front part of the church had to be closed in 1787 on the basis of an instruction from Emperor Joseph II , which affected all cemeteries within localities. In order to have enough suitable space in the cemetery, the cemetery was subsequently extended to Friedhofstrasse. In 1831 a new cemetery was laid out behind the old one, and in 1832 the closed part of the cemetery was abandoned. The new cemetery was consecrated on September 7, 1833 by Dean Johann Rohrbeck. In the same year, expansion areas for the cemetery were purchased. The expansion took place in 1851. The offer to create a central cemetery for Vienna in Oberlaa and Unterlaa was rejected by the cemetery commission, as the transport of the corpses to the planned site would have taken two to three hours in bad weather. In 1885 the Oberlaa cemetery was expanded again, and in 1889 another expansion doubled. In 1889 a new mortuary chamber with a dissecting room was probably built. The cemetery was owned by Oberlaa and was used by the residents of the communities Oberlaa, Unterlaa and Rothneusiedl according to their parish affiliation .
In 1938 the cemetery came to Vienna through the incorporation . In 1940 the death chamber was rebuilt and a laying out room, a burial chamber and a tool room were set up. The building now called the morgue was renovated in 1950/51. A consecrated altar was erected in the funeral hall, which was enlarged in 1956, so that the dead were not consecrated in the parish church. In 1961, renovation work made it possible to reclaim and reallocate fallen grave sites. In 1962 the cemetery was also expanded to 12,437 m². In 1979 new groups of graves were created.
In August 1965 the old laying out hall was demolished and the construction of a new hall by architect Josef Strelec began. The interior design was done by the architect Erich Boltenstern . Parts of the interior such as the three-part lead glass window, the altar mosaic and the altar cross were made by the painter Hermann Bauch . The hall was opened in 1967 and renovated in 1989.
Graves of important personalities
Graves dedicated to honor
The Oberlaa cemetery has an honorary grave .
| Surname | Life dates | activity |
|---|---|---|
| Johann Kornfeld | 1877-1925 | Vice Mayor of Oberlaa |
Graves of other personalities
Other important personalities buried at the Oberlaa cemetery:
| Surname | Life dates | activity |
|---|---|---|
| Anton Hofer | 1927-2009 | Trade unionists |
| Robert Politzer | 1939-2010 | Jazz musician |
| Peter Rauhofer | 1965-2013 | Music producer and DJ |
| Karl Wrba | 1900-1973 | District Chairman of Favoriten |
| Karl Zischek | 1910-1985 | Soccer player |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedhof Oberlaa ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Cemetery Oberlaa (Friedhöfe Wien GmbH)
- ↑ Friedhöfe Wien GmbH - Honorary graves of the Oberlaa cemetery (PDF; 16 kB), February 2016 (accessed on July 20, 2016)
Web links
- Cemetery Oberlaa on the pages of the municipal cemeteries (Friedhöfe Wien GmbH)
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 19 ″ N , 16 ° 24 ′ 21 ″ E