Leopoldauer Friedhof
The Leopoldauer Friedhof is a cemetery in the 21st Viennese district of Floridsdorf .
location
The Leopoldauer Friedhof is located in the east of the Floridsdorf district on the border with Donaustadt in the Leopoldau cadastral community , Leopoldauer Platz 77. It was laid out to the south of the Leopoldau parish church and is bordered to the south by Oskar-Grissemann-Strasse. The cemetery is directly adjacent to residential areas in the west and east. The Leopoldauer Friedhof covers an area of 4,949 square meters and houses 964 grave sites. The Leopoldauer Friedhof is therefore the third smallest urban cemetery in Vienna.
history
The Leopoldau cemetery was built around the time the area was elevated to a parish in 1489. The cemetery had been laid out around the parish church. In 1806, the cemetery wall built on the side of the street alongside the church was torn down and parts of the cemetery were left open. In 1872, Klosterneuburg Abbey left a field directly adjacent to the cemetery to the municipality of Leopoldau to expand the cemetery. The community paid two guilders per square fathom for the 1,340 square fathom property. In 1872 the extension area was consecrated. The 1881 separated Donaufeld received in 1881 a private cemetery, which was converted into a garden but 1,922th
In 1905, the Leopoldauer Friedhof covered an area of 5,186 square meters and had expansion reserves of 1,970 square meters. At that time it was used to bury the deceased in the former suburb of Leopoldau and was only intended for the Catholic deceased. After Leopoldau was incorporated into the city of Vienna in 1904, the city council approved the expansion of the cemetery in 1906 and 1910 and the construction of an enclosure wall in 1910. The reclamation of dilapidated graves enabled additional occupancy of the cemetery in 1915. However, the new occupancy was stopped again in 1923. In 1925 the cemetery was closed to all kinds of funerals. Settlement in graves that had already been acquired was only permitted until 1933 in 1931. In 1934, however, the pastor of Leopoldau managed to reopen the Leopoldau cemetery.
During an air raid on March 12, 1945, the cemetery was badly damaged by eight bombs and numerous grave sites were destroyed. A makeshift morgue was set up in the attic of the rectory after the air raid. After the Leopoldau cemetery had already been temporarily closed to burials in the inter-war period, a decision in 1952 prohibited the allocation of new and abandoned graves and only allowed them to be settled in existing graves. In 1953, another decision stipulated that the cemetery and nine other Viennese cemeteries were closed for 1975. Nevertheless, in 1957 the allocation of fallen graves was approved with the restriction that the right to use the graves would expire at the end of 1975. In 1965, the Vienna City Council increased the number of cemeteries to be closed from 9 to 16, but the City Council extended the closure of the cemeteries in 1975 by ten years. After the population of Vienna spoke out against the closure of the cemeteries in a referendum in 1980, the municipal council overturned the decision in September 1980.
Since there is no mortuary in the cemetery, the deceased were laid out in the houses until 1945. After this was banned in 1945, the deceased of the Roman Catholic faith were laid out in the church. Other people were laid out in front of the cemetery cross. Since 1982 members of other Christian religions have also been laid out in the church.
Graves of important personalities
Graves dedicated to honor
The Leopoldauer Friedhof has an honorary grave .
| Surname | Life dates | activity |
|---|---|---|
| Roman Rautner | 1925-2001 | Vienna City Council |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedhof Leopoldau ( 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 December 14, 2008
- ↑ www.friedhoefewien.at - Honorary graves of the Leopoldau cemetery , January 2008 (PDF, accessed on December 14, 2008; 57 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 ′ 45.3 " N , 16 ° 26 ′ 28.5" E