Kerepesi temető
The Kerepesi temető ( German Kerepescher Friedhof ) is next to the main cemetery Új köztemető an important cemetery in Budapest and is located in the 8th district, Józsefváros (Josefstadt). The main entrance is at Fiumei út 16. The cemetery was opened in 1847. To the north is the Ostbahnhof ( Keleti pu. ) And to the south the Budapest-Josefstadt station (Józsefvárosi pu.).
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Prominent Hungarian statesmen, writers, architects, actors and scientists are buried in the Kerepescher Friedhof, some of them in mausoleums . The first significant funeral was that of Mihály Vörösmarty in 1855. Some damage occurred during World War II . In 1958, the sculptor Olcsai-Kiss Zoltán erected a memorial for the labor movement. Soviet graves were dug in the northwest part of the cemetery. These include both the graves of Red Army soldiers who died during the liberation of Budapest in 1945 and of soldiers who were killed by Hungarian freedom fighters in 1956 when the Red Army marched in and put down the popular uprising. A memorial stone dedicated to "the Soviet heroes in the fight against the counterrevolution" commemorates the latter soldiers to this day.
One can find the mausoleums of leading Hungarian statesmen:
- Lajos Batthyány , Prime Minister 1848/1849
- Ferenc Deák , Minister of Justice 1848
- Lajos Kossuth , imperial administrator 1849
- Mihály Károlyi , President of the Hungarian Republic 1918/1919
The Kossuth mausoleum is the largest and most pompous structure in the entire cemetery, followed by the central Deák mausoleum. In addition to the mausoleum of the industrialist Ábrahám Ganz (built in 1868) there are other, less magnificent mausoleums on the site.
Furthermore, the Kerepescher Friedhof is known for its arcades , which were built from 1908 to 1911 and are reminiscent of northern Italian cemeteries in their style. The artist sector (field 34), where great Hungarian artists were buried, was created in 1929.
The cemetery looks like a large, quiet park.
Kegyeleti Múzeum
Hungary's most important sepulchral museum , the Kegyeleti Múzeum, is located in the area of the cemetery . The museum is divided into four areas; three rooms fill a permanent exhibition on Hungarian sepulchral culture . Guided tours for groups can be booked two weeks in advance.
Celebrity graves (selection)
In addition to the celebrities already mentioned, the following people were buried on the Kerepesi temető.
- Endre Ady (poet)
- József Antall (Prime Minister)
- Mihály Babits (poet)
- Béla Balázs (film critic)
- Lujza Blaha (stage actress, singer)
- Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka (painter)
- István Énekes (Boxing Olympic Champion)
- Loránd Eötvös (physicist)
- Ferenc Erkel (composer)
- János Fadrusz (sculptor)
- Emil Gerbeaud (entrepreneur, Café Gerbeaud )
- Artúr Görgei (General)
- George de Hevesy (1943 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry)
- Arthur Heyer (German-Hungarian painter)
- József Hild (architect)
- Gyula Horn (politician, Prime Minister of Hungary)
- Mór Jókai (writer, journalist)
- Attila József (poet)
- János Kádár (First Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party ), body stolen in 2007
- Pál Kadosa (composer, pianist and piano teacher)
- Maurus Kallina (architect)
- Karl Maria Kertbeny (Austrian journalist and human rights activist)
- Imre Kertész (writer, Nobel laureate in literature 2002)
- Michael Lang (theologian and preacher of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of Pest)
- Ödön Lechner (architect including the Budapest Postal Savings Bank )
- György Lukács (philosopher, literary scholar and critic)
- Arthur Meinig (architect, inter alia, of the Budapest Adriatic Palace )
- Mihály von Munkácsy (painter)
- Victims of the 1956 popular uprising
- Gyula Ostenburg-Morawek , officer
- Miklós Radnóti (poet)
- Ignaz Semmelweis (doctor, savior of mothers )
- Ignaz Schnitzer (librettist of the Strauss operetta Der Zigeunerbaron )
- Imre Steindl (architect of the parliament building in Budapest )
- Arthur Arz von Straussenburg (last Chief of Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army )
- József Székács (Protestant theologian, publicist and Protestant bishop)
- Ede Tóth (playwright)
- Leó Weiner (composer)
- Miklós Ybl (architect including the Hungarian State Opera )
- Mihály Zichy (painter)
literature
- Lukacs Csernus, Zsigmond Meet: The Cemeteries of Budapest . Office of the Mayor, Budapest, 1999. ISBN 963-8376-98-8 ( Our Budapest ).
See also
Web links
- Budapest Funeral Home (also in German)
- Telephone numbers and opening times (in Hungarian)
- On the eventful history of a final resting place: the Kerepeser Friedhof in Budapest in Pester Lloyd (German)
- List of Celebrities and Their Burial Place (in Hungarian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marian Kiss (director) : Oh you great Yiddish God. (No longer available online.) In: arte.tv. ARTE GEIE, August 22, 2017, archived from the original on August 24, 2017 ; accessed on August 24, 2017 (from 32:10 min.). 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.
- ↑ Information on the Kegyeleti Múzeum at museum.hu
Coordinates: 47 ° 29 ′ 39.6 ″ N , 19 ° 5 ′ 37.9 ″ E