Heiligenstadt cemetery
The cemetery Heiligenstadt is a cemetery in the 19th Vienna district Döbling .
location
The Heiligenstadt cemetery is located on the Schreiberbach at the southern foot of the Nussberg, which is lined with vineyards, between the Viennese wine-growing villages of Grinzing and Nussdorf . Its address is 19. Wildgrubgasse 20. The cemetery is bordered by Wildgrubgasse to the south and west and meets loosely built-up residential areas in the east. To the north of the cemetery there is a plot of land that is used for viticulture. The cemetery covers an area of 20,315 square meters and is home to 2,655 grave sites.
history
Old Heiligenstadt cemetery
The parish of Heiligenstadt is one of the oldest parishes in Vienna. In addition to Heiligenstadt, the parish originally also included the villages of Döbling , Grinzing , Sievering , Salmannsdorf , Neustift am Walde and Nussdorf . As the first cemetery for the surrounding communities, which gradually became independent parishes, the cemetery around the parish church initially served as a burial place. In 1831 this was surrounded by a wall, the construction costs were borne by the Oswald der Grill von Grinzing foundation. An extension of the cemetery was probably not possible because there was a mineral spring next to the church and water was encountered during excavation work. As early as 1500 a charnel house was built on the edge of the cemetery , which received the bones of the dead and thus enabled the graves to be filled again. Due to the population growth at the end of the 19th century, the establishment of a new cemetery became necessary; the old cemetery was closed on September 2, 1873. While the parish church was rebuilt from 1894 to 1898, the Vienna City Council approved the abolition of the old cemetery area in 1895 on the condition that the area was used "for garden purposes". Only the grave of the founder of school gymnastics in Vienna, Rudolf Stephani, remained. The Karner, the only surviving ossuary in Vienna, was renovated in 1969, and the remains were buried in 1970 at the Vienna Central Cemetery .
New Heiligenstadt cemetery
In 1873 the new cemetery was laid out in the Wildgrube and expanded by 2,921 square meters in 1897/1898. In 1904 the wooden boundary was replaced by an enclosure wall , and a second expansion of the cemetery area was decided in 1910 and implemented. In the inter-war period, the cemetery grounds were enlarged, and a new cemetery was built in 1925. After renovation work in the post-war period, the allocation of new and abandoned graves was prohibited in 1952 . In 1953, the municipal council decided to close the Heiligenstadt cemetery and other cemeteries by 1975. Nevertheless, renovation work took place again in the first half of the 1960s. The closure of the cemeteries was postponed to 1985 in 1975. In a referendum in 1980, however, the Viennese population rejected the closure of the cemeteries, whereupon the local council overturned the decision. Between 1980 and 1983, to reactivate old graves, grave sites that had fallen back were withdrawn and re-assigned. The last construction work took place in the 1990s. In 1990 a new administration building was built, and in 1993 the hall entrance was protected by a canopy. In addition, the funeral room was redesigned and the facade repaired.
Graves of important personalities
Graves dedicated to honor
The Heiligenstadt cemetery has 11 honorary graves . In the Position column , A denotes the old, N the new part of the cemetery, followed by the group of graves (letter or number) and the grave number.
| Surname | Life dates | activity | position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walter Berry | 1929-2000 | Chamber singer | A 1 No. 263 |
| Karlheinz Hackl | 1949-2014 | actor | A 3 No. 115 |
| Josefine and Leopold Hawelka | 1913-2005, 1911-2011 | Restaurateurs ( Café Hawelka ) | AM No. 27 |
| Ödön from Horváth | 1901-1938 | Poet and dramaturge | AM No. 4 |
| Karl Jelinek | 1822-1876 | meteorologist | A 1 No. 60 |
| Max Menger | 1838-1911 | Court and court advocate | A TO No. 21 |
| Alois Preyssing | Founder of the hospital fund | N 5 No. 87 | |
| Anna sweetheart | Founder and founder
the infant care facility |
N 5 No. 87 | |
| Walter Schiff | 1866-1950 | Founder of the former
Austrian Central Statistical Office |
A 2 No. 12 |
| Heinrich Schmid | 1885-1949 | architect | A 4 154 |
| Roman Karl Scholz | 1912-1944 | Resistance fighters | N 1 No. 32 |
Graves of other personalities
| Surname | Life dates | activity |
|---|---|---|
| Carl Appel | 1911-1997 | architect |
| Edmund Bernatzik | 1854-1919 | Constitutional lawyer |
| Hugo Bernatzik | 1897-1953 | Ethnologist |
| Hubert Borowicka | 1910-1999 | Civil engineer |
| Katharina Cortolezis-Schlager | 1960-2015 | Management consultant and member of the National Council |
| Moritz Ertl | 1859-1934 | Agriculture Minister |
| Felix Maria von Exner-Ewarten | 1876-1930 | meteorologist |
| Christof Exner | 1915-2007 | geologist |
| Leopold Facco | 1907-1993 | Soccer player |
| Michael Guttenbrunner | 1919-2004 | writer |
| Eduard Hauser | 1840-1915 | Founder of the modern stonemason industry in Austria |
| Hellmuth Hron | 1933-2002 | actor |
| Hans Igler | 1920-2010 | Economist and politician |
| Theresa Jordis | 1949-2013 | Lawyer, board of directors, supervisory board |
| Friedrich Kratochwjle | 1882-1956 | Garden architect and city garden director |
| Elisabeth Lafite | 1918-2007 | Editor and publisher |
| Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda | 1949-2019 | Racing driver and entrepreneur |
| Rudolf Moralt | 1902-1958 | conductor |
| Udo Proksch | 1934-2001 | Entrepreneur, designer |
| Gottfried Schenker | 1842-1901 | Founder of the shipping company Schenker |
| Gerhard Schmidt | 1924-2010 | Art historian |
| Peter Weiser | 1926-2012 | Cultural manager |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heiligenstadt 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
- ^ Friedhöfe Wien GmbH - Honorary graves of the Heiligenstadt cemetery , February 2016 (PDF, accessed on July 22, 2016; 23 kB)
literature
- Werner T. Bauer: Wiener Friedhofsführer. Exact description of all burial sites together with a history of the Viennese burial system . Falter Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85439-335-0
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 37 ″ N , 16 ° 20 ′ 48 ″ E