kuk military cemetery Pradl
The Austro-Hungarian military cemetery in Innsbruck 's Pradl district was built in 1831 and is still in use today. It is one of several cemeteries in Innsbruck .
administration
The cemetery was administered by the military until 1918. Today the listed facility is owned by the Republic of Austria, which is also entrusted with its maintenance.
history
The older part (grave fields A to E) of the military cemetery was built by the court war council in 1831 after the old burial site near the military hospital on the railway viaduct was abandoned in 1830. The newly created cemetery in the Pradler fields was initially only surrounded by a wall. The official inauguration, including a parade of all off-duty garrisons, a volley and cannon shots, took place on October 23, 1831 by city dean Georg Habtmann. A mass followed, followed by a folk anthem, and at noon the entire company went to the banquet table.
The cemetery was walled in the summer of 1842. The small chapel was built in 1844 and inaugurated on November 1, 1844 by Abbot Alois Röggl von Wilten . In 1850 the cemetery was extended by a plot to the south and rededicated on July 31, 1850. When there was no longer enough space during the First World War , a new military cemetery was built southeast of the Pradler cemetery on a plot of land belonging to the Kapellerwirt .
When it was rebuilt in 1913, numerous old gravestones were removed, some of which were worth preserving, which were placed under monument protection in 1933 and restored by order of the Federal Monuments Office. In the following years, renovation work was carried out on the chapel and the surrounding wall. On December 19, 1943, 50 graves were opened as a result of the air raid on Innsbruck. Partly badly damaged.
From 1977 restoration work was carried out on the cemetery and the chapel. In 1983, the war graves from the First World War were merged into grave fields E and G.
Buried people
Until 1915, only military personnel, officers and common soldiers, were buried in the cemetery. Today, in addition to people in military service, employees of the castle and palace administration receive a burial site there.
Among the buried there are prominent persons such as Feldzeugmeister Heinrich Frh. Von Roßbach, Colonel Friedrich Frh. Halloy, Robert Frh. V. Swinburne, Lieutenant Field Marshal Anton Ritter v. Burlo-Ehrwall and the well-known Tyrolean poet Johann Senn .
According to Zeller, the oldest grave is that of Josef Kammel, who was buried on March 30, 1832.
Web links
- Old military cemetery Pradl , Castle Authority Austria
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schadelbauer, K., 1947, Innsbrucker Geschichtsalmanach, pp. 47–50
- ↑ Granichstaedten, R., "The old kuk military cemetery in Innsbruck", in: Tiroler Anzeiger from October 31, 1936.
Coordinates: 47 ° 15 ′ 41 ″ N , 11 ° 24 ′ 33.9 ″ E