Meidlinger Friedhof
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The Meidlinger Friedhof is a municipal cemetery in the 12th Viennese district Meidling , Haidackergasse 6. It consists of two parts, which are separated by the Eibesbrunnergasse, where there are also two further entrances. It extends between Haidackergasse, Unter-Meidlinger Strasse , Kundratstrasse and Kerschensteinergasse. The area is adjacent to the Meidlinger Bahnhof and the Südbahn.
history
The Meidlinger Friedhof is one of the oldest cemeteries in Vienna that is still in use today. The former Viennese suburb of Meidling had its first cemetery as early as 1784, which was located on the site of today's Vierthalergasse 11 and had to be abandoned again in 1806 because of irreparable water ingress.
In the immediate vicinity of this oldest Meidlinger cemetery, the citizen Johann Putz made a piece of land available free of charge, which was located approximately on today's streets of Sechtergasse, Pachmüllergasse, Zeleborgasse. This second cemetery was inaugurated in 1807. As a result of a cholera epidemic that claimed many lives and due to the general increase in population in Meidling, the cemetery had to be enlarged in 1831 and again in 1859.
But since these extensions were ultimately inadequate, the cemetery was again relocated to an uninhabited area further outside at Meidlinger Bahnhof. The municipalities of Obermeidling , Untermeidling and Gaudenzdorf jointly participated in the project and also shared the costs. This cemetery, which corresponds to the current location, was inaugurated on August 6, 1862. Over the course of 5 years, the graves were transferred here from the old cemetery. The new Meidlinger cemetery has also been expanded several times. In 1927 he received an urn niche system .
According to a municipal council resolution from 1953, the Meidinger cemetery, among other things, should be closed, which would have meant that it would have continued to exist. On May 30, 1975, however, the municipal council decided to close the Meidlinger and 15 other cemeteries from 1995 onwards, which would have meant the clearance of the areas for other purposes.
After some violent protests, a referendum was held between 16 and 18 March 1980 on the continued existence of the threatened cemeteries. Of the 338,715 votes cast, 63.2 percent decided in favor of preserving the cemeteries.
In 1984 a new funeral hall was built according to plans by the architect Erich Boltenstern .
In the 1990s, a large population of European hamsters lived at the Meidlinger Friedhof , and several animal welfare organizations have drawn attention to their particular need for protection through signs that were gradually removed at the end of the 1990s, since the Meidlinger Friedhof has been increasingly used for burials again since then. After several dozen partially mutilated hamster carcasses were found in the spring and summer of 2018, which aroused the suspicion that the protected hamsters were being systematically pursued after their lives, the Vienna Environment Agency and the Vienna cemetery administration put up a notice board in autumn 2018 pointing to the draws attention to the need to protect the European hamsters, which are threatened with extinction.
Between 2004 and 2012, the Meidlinger Friedhof was regularly ravaged by vandals. For example, on October 16, 2004, vandals broke into the funeral hall, where they threw the coffin of a person in lay on the floor, which fell out of the coffin. As a result, more or less extensive grave desecrations continued: at the end of November 2009 alone, 55 graves were demolished. In autumn 2010 there was particularly massive destruction: in September and October 2010 alone, around 250 graves (tombstones and tombstones) were demolished, resulting in an estimated property damage of 300,000 euros. There was also devastation in November 2011.
Graves of important personalities
Although the Meidlinger Friedhof has a large number of old graves, only a few important personalities are buried here, and even these are mostly only of local relevance.
Graves dedicated to honor
The Meidlinger Friedhof has 42 honorary graves . This also includes the graves of 24 Franciscan women and the graves of three of the victims of the Ringtheater fire of 1881.
| Surname | Life dates | activity |
|---|---|---|
| Hanna Berger | 1910-1962 | Choreographer and dancer |
| Hans Weiner-Dillmann | 1903-1990 | Operetta composer |
| Max Fiebiger | 1867-1958 | City Planning Director |
| Josef Leopold Gierster | 1800-1863 | Brewery owner and first mayor of Gaudenzdorf |
| Otto Glöckel | 1874-1935 | Politician and school reformer |
| Emanuel Herrmann | 1839-1902 | Economist, inventor of the postcard |
| Carl Lorens | 1851-1909 | Composer of Viennese songs |
| Sophie von Löwenthal | 1810-1889 | Writer |
| Alois Massak | 1922-1984 | Police colonel and explosives expert |
| Franz Palm | -1878 | Founder of a kindergarten foundation |
| Karl Richter | 1872-1935 | Politician and editor |
| Josef Rucker | 1826-1893 | Builders and politicians |
| Rudolf Satran | 1886-1963 | Theater and variety director |
| Anton Steinböck | 1858-1889 | Fire chief of the city fire brigade |
| Johann Wollinger | 1915-1965 | Politician |
| Ignaz Zelebor | 1816-1890 | Mayor of Untermeidling |
Graves of other personalities
Other important personalities who were buried at the Meidlinger Friedhof or whose grave is or was there:
| Surname | Life dates | activity |
|---|---|---|
| August Aichhorn | 1878-1949 | Educator and psychoanalyst |
| Christian Awart | 1933-2009 | Table tennis player |
| Ignaz Rudolf Bischoff | 1784-1850 | doctor |
| Friedrich Chlubna | 1946-2005 | Chess composer |
| Leopoldine Glöckel | 1871-1937 | socialist politician |
| Josephine Haas from Längenfeld-Pfalzheim | 1783-1846 | Benefactress and benefactress |
| Ingrid Kretschmer | 1939-2011 | Cartographer |
| Wilhelm Liwanec | 1915-1968 | Politician |
| Walter Macher | 1915-1993 | Politician |
| Miller family to Aichholz | Large industrialists | |
| Karl Pink | 1884-1965 | numismatist |
| Michael Maria Rabenlechner | 1868-1952 | Lyric poet |
| Franz Seraph of Sommaruga | 1780-1860 | Politician |
| Gerhard Steinacher | 1920-1940 | Conscientious objector executed by the National Socialists |
| Karl Stojka | 1931-2003 | Roma artist |
| Fritz Stüber-Gunther | 1872-1922 | Writer (was moved to a grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery ) |
| Josef Vytiska | 1905-1986 | architect |
| Hans Wiltschek | 1911-1999 | boxer |
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
- 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
- Meidlinger Friedhof on the website of Friedhöfe Wien GmbH
- Richard Rode: Hamsters in November luck. About the European hamster population at the Meidlinger Friedhof.
Individual evidence
- ↑ : Werner T. Bauer: Wiener Friedhofsführer
- ↑ Press release of the "City of Vienna": A peaceful home for the Meidlinger Feldhamster.
- ^ Richard Rode: Hamsters in November luck.
- ↑ Courier : Vandals pushed corpse out of coffin. October 16, 2004. p. 12
- ^ Meidling cemetery: 55 tombstones knocked over . ORF : Vienna. November 23, 2009.
- ^ Kronen Zeitung : Vienna-Meidling cemetery devastated overnight . November 2, 2010.
- ^ ORF : Meidling cemetery: 300,000 euros damage . November 2, 2010.
- ^ Vandals devastated Meidlinger Friedhof . ORF Vienna, November 20, 2011
- ^ Friedhöfe Wien GmbH - Honorable graves of the Meidling cemetery , January 2008 (PDF, accessed on December 15, 2008; 83 kB)
- ↑ Orange 94.0 : The Steinacher Files .
Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 25 ″ N , 16 ° 20 ′ 23 ″ E