Ober Sankt Veiter cemetery
The Ober Sankt Veiter Friedhof is a cemetery in the 13th district of Hietzing in Vienna .
location
The Ober Sankt Veiter Friedhof is located in Hietzing on the edge of the Lainzer Tiergarten in the cadastral community of Ober Sankt Veit , Gemeindeberggasse 26. The mountain and park cemetery was created on the Gemeindeberg and is bordered by the wooded hilltop in the northwest. In the south, the cemetery borders on Gemeindeberggasse, in the east on Josef-Kraft-Weg. The cemetery covers an area of 35,886 square meters and is home to 4,665 grave sites.
history
Old cemeteries
The old cemetery of the Ober Sankt Veiter parish was on the southeast side next to the parish church. The cemetery was likely to have been overcrowded as early as the 18th century, as graves had to be abandoned after a while and the bones were relocated. The bones were stored in the crypt of the parish church. In 1751, Prince Archbishop Johann Josef Graf Trautson had a new cemetery built, while the old cemetery was closed in the same year and converted into a small park.
The new cemetery was built on a plot of land about a yoke in size in today's Auhofstrasse and was consecrated in 1751 by Cardinal Sigismund von Kollonitz . The cemetery cross was transferred from the old to the new cemetery. The cemetery was expanded in 1826, and in 1856 it became the property of the municipality. However, as the cemetery soon became too small, the community had a new 4,200 square fathom cemetery built in Gemeindeberggasse. The consecration took place on November 2, 1876, the old cemetery was occupied until 1879. After the abandonment of the cemetery had already been ordered at the end of 1889, the final abandonment was approved in 1903. After the buildings had been cleared and demolished, a park was opened on the site of the cemetery in 1908, which was named after the Mayor of St. Veit, Alexander Strecker.
Today's cemetery complex
The cemetery, which opened in 1876, was expanded by around 2,300 square meters before it was incorporated. In 1902 the decision was made to expand the facility again. The reburial of the remains of the Bishop of Valence, Michael Gabriel Comte Messay, from the old cemetery was approved in 1905. At that time, the cemetery covered 19,019 square meters, only Catholics were allowed to be buried. The approval for the construction of a morgue and a blessing chapel was granted in 1907.
Since the occupancy of the Lainz cemetery increased steadily, it was decreed in 1920 that the deceased in the districts of Lainz and Speising were to be buried at the Ober Sankt Veiter cemetery until the cemetery was expanded. The Ober Sankt Veiter Friedhof itself was expanded in 1947, 1954 and 1959. In addition, through development work in the expansion areas and renovation work, graves that had fallen back and new grave sites could be allocated. The urn facility was opened in 1966.
building
The existing funeral hall was redesigned between 1964 and 1966 according to plans by architect Erich Boltenstern , the artistic design was carried out by Hermann Bauch . The hall is an elongated building with an elevated, open central hall. In addition to the leaded glass windows in the side walls, Hermann Bauch also designed an antique glass mosaic that was installed in the apse . In addition, the hall is adorned with a dark concrete cross.
Buried people
Graves dedicated to honor
The Ober Sankt Veiter Friedhof has 17 graves dedicated to honor .
| Surname | Life dates | activity |
|---|---|---|
| Wilhelm Appel | 1875-1911 | writer |
| Friedrich Julius Bieber | 1873-1924 | Africa researcher and ethnologist |
| Conrad Bühlmayer | 1835-1883 | painter |
| Christl Goltz-Schenk | 1912-2008 | Opera singer |
| Karl Hentschel | 1827-1898 | Last mayor of Ober Sankt Veit |
| Kolm-Veltee (family) | Film pioneers | |
| Alexander Mell | 1850-1931 | Administrative officer and educator for the blind |
| Alma Motzko | 1887-1968 | politician |
| Anton Peschka jun. | 1914-1997 | Painter, nephew of Egon Schiele |
| Kurt Johann Rapf | 1922-2007 | Composer and conductor |
| Egon Schiele | 1890-1918 | Academic painter |
| Eduard Schlesinger | 1903-1988 | Resistance fighters |
| Heinrich Schönich | 1844-1926 | Last mayor of Unter Sankt Veit |
| Rudolf Freiherr von Slatin (Slatin Pascha) | 1857-1932 | Officer and explorer |
| Leopold Sommerer | 1791-1875 | Senior teacher and councilor |
| Ignaz Spöttl | 1834-1892 | Numismatist and local historian |
| Otto Stoessl | 1875-1936 | writer |
Graves of other personalities
Other important personalities who are buried at the Ober Sankt Veiter Friedhof:
| Surname | Life dates | activity |
|---|---|---|
| Günther Bahr | 1944-2011 | Radio presenter |
| Kurt Benesch | 1926-2008 | writer |
| Hilde Borik | 1908-2007 | politician |
| Ludwig Bowitsch | 1818-1881 | Poet and writer |
| Hans Christian | 1929-2011 | Opera singer (baritone) |
| Michael Danzinger | 1914-2007 | Composer, pianist and entertainer |
| Hans Demel | 1886-1951 | Egyptologist |
| Heinrich Gattermeyer | 1923-2018 | composer |
| Carl Geyling | 1814-1880 | Glass painter |
| Franz Grabmayr | 1927-2015 | Artist |
| Guido Gröger | 1874-1950 | Entrepreneur and builder |
| Herbert Gruber | 1913-1999 | film producer |
| Franz Hagenauer | 1906-1986 | sculptor |
| Ludwig Herberth | 1890-1953 | Politician |
| Helmut Heuberger | 1927-2001 | Draftsman and painter |
| Nikolaus Hofreiter | 1904-1990 | mathematician |
| Adolf Holzhausen | 1868-1931 | publisher |
| Paul Listen | 1948-2011 | actor |
| Ewald Kleisinger | 1912-2000 | Righteous among the peoples |
| Robert Krasser | 1882-1958 | Educator and politician |
| Walther Kraus | 1902-1997 | Classical philologist |
| Karl Křitek | 1861-1928 | kuk Colonel General |
| Karl Kuenzel | 1889-1945 | Film production manager |
| Erich Lifka | 1924-2007 | writer |
| Otto Mazal | 1932-2008 | Byzantinist and librarian |
| Erwin Melichar | 1913-2000 | President of the Constitutional Court |
| Alfred Mell | 1880-1962 | Military historian |
| Otto Pammer | 1926-2008 | Cinematographer and television film producer |
| Pius Michael Prutscher | 1913-1995 | Politician |
| Roland Rainer | 1910-2004 | architect |
| Helmut Richter | 1941-2014 | architect |
| Theodor Schenk | 1907-1967 | composer |
| Hans Schwabl | 1924-2016 | Classical philologist |
| Franz Spunda | 1890-1963 | writer |
| Karl Stemolak | 1875-1954 | sculptor |
| Arthur Szarvassi | 1873-1919 | physicist |
| Felix Tarbuk | 1893-1982 | Officer and railway engineer |
| Oswald Stimm | 1923-2014 | Artist |
| Karl Wüstenhagen | 1893-1950 | Actor, director and artistic director |
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 .
- DEHIO Vienna - X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District , Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna, 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ober Sankt Veiter Friedhof ( 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 11, 2008
- ↑ www.friedhoefewien.at - Honorary graves of the Ober Sankt Veit cemetery (PDF; 29 kB), November 2016 (accessed on May 11, 2017)
Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 40.7 " N , 16 ° 15 ′ 42.7" E