Haydn Park
The Haydnpark is a park in the 12th district of Meidling in Vienna and was created in 1926 on the site of the abandoned Hundsturm cemetery . It got its name in memory of the composer Joseph Haydn , who was buried in the former cemetery.
location
The Haydn Park has an area of around 26,500 m² and is located on the Gaudenzdorfer Gürtel , on the district border with Margareten . In addition to the Gaudenzdorfer Gürtel in the east, the park is bordered by Flurschützstrasse in the south, Siebertgasse in the west and Herthergasse in the north .
history
Hundsturm cemetery
Due to the " Josephine Reforms " decreed by Emperor Joseph II , all cemeteries within the line wall (which corresponds to today's belt ) were closed for hygienic reasons . The so-called “communal cemeteries” were built as a replacement, these were the Sankt Marxer Friedhof , the Währinger Friedhof , the Schmelzer Friedhof , the Matzleinsdorfer Friedhof and finally the Hundsturmer Friedhof (originally Hundsthurmer Friedhof ). With around 31,000 m², the cemetery in front of the Hundsturmer Line, laid out in 1783, was the smallest of the five communal cemeteries in Vienna. In 1848 the cemetery with its strategically favorable location directly in front of the Linienwall was one of the fiercely contested scenes of the Vienna October Revolution .
The Biedermeier era also left its mark on the Hundsturm cemetery. In addition to magnificent Empire tombstones, stone angels and veiled urns, many grave inscriptions reflected the vanities of the population at the time. Rented house owners , kk luxury bakers , Hof-Haberkastner and hay master and kk privileged silk manufacturers rested here .
Well-known personalities buried here
Probably the most prominent personality buried in this cemetery was the composer Joseph Haydn. Haydn, who died on May 31, 1809 in his Gumpendorfer house, was buried in small circles the next day in the Hundsturm cemetery. A first-class funeral, as he had wished, was not possible, as Vienna was being occupied by French units under Napoleon Bonaparte at that time . When Haydn was exhumed in 1820 and transferred to Eisenstadt, the missing skull was noticed; it was stolen from the grave by followers of Franz Joseph Gall's skull theory shortly after the funeral .
Other well-known personalities who were buried in the Hundsturm cemetery were the painters Jakob Gauermann († 1843) and Josef Danhauser († 1845), as well as the carpet manufacturer Philipp Haas († 1870) and the first Viennese , who were meanwhile transferred to graves of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery Police chief Anton Ritter von Le Monnier († 1873).
Conversion to the Haydn Park
The opening of the central cemetery in 1874 also marked the end of the “communal cemeteries”, so the Hundsturm cemetery was also closed that year. In the decades that followed, the line wall was razed, the belt was expanded and the suburbs were incorporated. In 1907, the 5th district of Margareten ceded its part located outside the belt (the former Neumargareten ), on which the abandoned cemetery was also located, to the 12th district of Meidling. In 1926, when the large Reumannhof community building was just being completed on the other side of the Belt , the cemetery was converted into a park with a children's outdoor pool for future residents of the Reumannhof , which no longer exists today . A few years later a residential complex of the municipality of Vienna built next door was named after the composer as Haydnhof .
Today the gravestone of Joseph Haydn erected in 1814 - and only surviving - with the inscription Non omnis moriar (“I will not quite die”) reminds of the composer who was once buried here as well as of the former use of the park as a church .
The public park is looked after by Municipal Department 42 (Wiener Stadtgartenamt) and has entrances on both long sides (Gaudenzdorfer Gürtel and Siebertgasse) and an entrance area in Flurschützstraße, which is covered by an arched pergola . There is also a 7,500 m² youth sports facility for the sports of handball , fistball and athletics , under which an underground car park has been built.
See also
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
- Hans Werner Bousska: The Hundsturmer Friedhof and Joseph Haydn's restless resting place at the Hundsturmer Friedhof in: Blätter des Meidlinger Bezirksmuseum, Vienna 2009, issue 70.
- Ludwig Varga: Friedhöfe in Meidling - History of the six cemeteries in the 12th district of Vienna , sheets of the Meidlinger Bezirksmuseum, Vienna 2017, issue 80.
Web links
- The Haydn Park on the website of the Vienna City Garden Authority
- Margaretengürtel - World History at Hundsthurmer Friedhof ( Memento from October 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 44 kB)
Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 54 ″ N , 16 ° 20 ′ 46 ″ E