New Mühlau cemetery

The cemetery with chapel (view to the west)

The New Friedhof Mühlau , usually simply referred to as the Mühlauer Friedhof , is one of the cemeteries in Innsbruck and is located in the Mühlau district . It is particularly known as the burial place of Georg Trakl and other poets. The listed cemetery is subordinate to the city of Innsbruck and serves as a so-called special cemetery for the burial of the deceased in the district.

history

The area of the New Mühlau Cemetery around 1960 (before its expansion to the north)

The New Mühlau Cemetery was opened in 1926. Until then, the Mühlau church cemetery , located above the town center around the parish church, was the only cemetery in the village, which was independent until 1938. The cemetery around the church is still looked after by the Roman Catholic parish of Mühlau.

The construction of a new cemetery in Mühlau , supervised by the city council of Innsbruck, was decided in 1914/1915, but it took until 1926 before it could be opened. In 1986 the municipal cemetery, which had again become too small, was expanded by 4,000 m² with space for 1,842 graves. In order to have space for future extensions, the city of Innsbruck has bought a total of almost 10,000 m² of land.

description

Cemetery area

The new cemetery, designed according to plans by Wilhelm Stigler , is located on the slope of the Scheibenbichl, opposite the parish church (and the parish cemetery) on the other side of the Mühlauer Bach . The property of the new cemetery, which tapers to the north, has an area of 10,400 m². The complex is surrounded by a wall covered with wooden shingles and has entrances in the west and south-west with wrought-iron pointed arch gates that were created around 1926. The original layout of the new cemetery is densely covered with trees and divided into 18 grave fields. The expansion from 1986 follows to the north, the eastern half is laid out as an area for urn graves in terraces. A crucifix by Hans Pontiller was set up at the northern end of the central path .

Cemetery chapel

In the northwest corner of the original complex is the cemetery chapel, built in 1926, with the consecration hall and an administrative building. The building complex, which is differentiated according to the different rooms, is covered with wooden shingles, in the south-east corner there is a tower with a pointed helmet. The facade is structured by round arches. On the south side there is a continuous, groin-vaulted arcade, which is designed as an entrance in the area of the chapel and is slightly elevated. Inside the chapel is a two-bay hall with barrel vaults with stitch caps . The frescoes were created by Toni Kirchmayr in 1935 .

Personalities buried in the cemetery

Grave of Anna Maria Achenrainer

Anna Maria Achenrainer (1909–1972), poet
Carl Dallago (1869-1949), writer
Ernst Degn (1904–1990), painter
Gerhild Diesner (1915–1995), painter
Theodor Paul Erismann (1883–1961), psychologist
Ludwig von Ficker (1880–1967), writer and publisher ^*
Leo von Hibler (1884–1956), English studies
Hermann Graf Keyserling (1880–1946), philosopher ^*
Wilfried Kirschl (1930–2010), painter and art journalist
Josef Leitgeb (1897–1952), writer
Joseph Georg Oberkofler (1889–1962), lawyer, narrator and poet
Georg Trakl (1887–1914), poet ^*
Ignaz Zangerle (1905–1987), adult educator

^* Honorary grave of the city of Innsbruck

Georg Trakl was originally buried on November 6, 1914 in Krakow , where he was stationed as a military pharmacist during the First World War . His friend and sponsor Ludwig von Ficker had the body transferred to Innsbruck in 1925, where he was buried on October 7th at the Mühlau cemetery, as he wished. Ficker himself and numerous other writers from the circle of the magazine Der Brenner published by Ficker later found their final resting place in the Mühlauer Friedhof. On July 5, 1948, Paul Celan visited Georg Trakl's grave and laid flowers.

Web links

Commons : Neuer Friedhof Mühlau - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Plan of the cemetery (PDF; 150 kB)
Photos of the graves of Ludwig von Ficker (left) and Georg Trakl (right) in the Mühlau cemetery: Photo 1 , Photo 2
Mühlauer Friedhof in the Literatur-Land-Karte Tirol / Südtirol
New Cemetery Mühlau (Innsbruck, Austria) at Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b City of Innsbruck: The Innsbrucker Friedhöfe: Places of reflection, mirror images of life (PDF; 7.5 MB)
↑ ^a ^b ^c Karl Wiesauer: New Municipal Cemetery Mühlau. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved September 1, 2014 .
↑ ^a ^b Groundbreaking ceremony for 1842 grave sites. Mühlau cemetery has now been secured in its function for decades. In: Innsbrucker Stadtnachrichten, No. 5/1986, p. 15 ( digitized version )
^ Karl Wiesauer: Mühlau cemetery chapel. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved September 1, 2014 .
^ City of Innsbruck: Honorary graves of the city of Innsbruck (PDF; 223 kB)
↑ Martin Kolozs: Die Tiroler Dichterzeile , Wiener Zeitung of July 18, 2009
↑ Paul Celan: “something entirely personal”. Letters 1934–1970. Selected, edited and commented by Barbara Wiedemann. Berlin 2019. p. 37.

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[broschuere_stadt-1] City of Innsbruck: The Innsbrucker Friedhöfe: Places of reflection, mirror images of life (PDF; 7.5 MB)

[kuka_frhf-2] Karl Wiesauer: New Municipal Cemetery Mühlau. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved September 1, 2014 .

[ibk_inf-3] Groundbreaking ceremony for 1842 grave sites. Mühlau cemetery has now been secured in its function for decades. In: Innsbrucker Stadtnachrichten, No. 5/1986, p. 15 ( digitized version )

[4] Karl Wiesauer: Mühlau cemetery chapel. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved September 1, 2014 .

[5] City of Innsbruck: Honorary graves of the city of Innsbruck (PDF; 223 kB)

[6] Martin Kolozs: Die Tiroler Dichterzeile , Wiener Zeitung of July 18, 2009

[7] Paul Celan: “something entirely personal”. Letters 1934–1970. Selected, edited and commented by Barbara Wiedemann. Berlin 2019. p. 37.