Perger cemeteries
The Perger cemeteries kept getting too small, so that their location had to be relocated several times. Today's cemetery is located on the Kalvarienberg at an altitude of about 290 m above sea level. A. at the Perger Kalvarienbergkirche and consists of two parts. In 2007 a department for urn graves was created in the newer part. In the older part of the cemetery there is a compartment for the graves of Soviet soldiers from the war and occupation times.
The Pergkirchen parish cemetery is located near the Pergkirchen parish church .
The cemetery at the Jakobskapelle
A first Perger cemetery was likely to have existed around the front part of the Jacob's Chapel, which was built in 1416, before the parish was established . After this cemetery was closed, the areas that became free formed the basis for what is now the relatively large Perger main square.
The cemetery at the Sebastianikirche and at the Bürgerspital
graveyard
The cemetery at the Jakobskirche quickly became too small and therefore moved to the location of today's Raiffeisenbank and the war memorial in today's Linzer Strasse in 1518, where it remained until the end of the 19th century. The new cemetery was inaugurated in 1522. After the cemetery was moved to Kalvarienberg in 1892, the old cemetery was still used as a gardening center until 1927. Remains of the building of a hostel that served as a mortuary chamber (morgue), a cemetery portal with the engraved year 1518 and the cemetery wall were removed on the occasion of the construction of the secondary school in 1928.
Sebastianikirche
The Sebastianikirche, built in 1522 by the brotherhood of St. Sebastian and Dionysius, had three altars (high altar in honor of the holy martyr Sebastian, the holy martyr Dionys and the holy confessor Rochus, the north side altar in honor of the Virgin Mary and the south in honor of the saint Anna and St. Michael). The Sebastianikirche was already in danger of collapsing in 1786 and no longer usable, it is not known when it was demolished. The documents from that time indicate that Perg was called oppido berg at that time, with oppido meaning small fortified town / place / place .
Citizens Hospital
From a foundation from 1554, further donations, inheritances and funds from the Perg market, a former town house was converted into a hospital, initially in Linzerstraße 1 and later in Linzer Straße 14 (former Spitalgasse), for the maintenance of poor, old citizens, who can no longer sustain themselves independently. Originally the hospital was set up for ten people, in 1933 and probably also when the foundation was dissolved in 1957 it had 16 rooms, 2 kitchens and a death chamber. In addition, there were 21 yoke fields, eight yoke meadows, one and a half yoke forest and a quarter yoke garden.
The administration of the hospital, the admission of beneficiaries and the payment of support was the responsibility of the municipality of Perg, which appoints its own hospital administrator. In the case of contagious diseases, the hospital was used as an isolation house. The rectory is said to have once been in the citizen hospital building. In 1938 all foundations were dissolved, and the Bürgerspitalstiftung came to the market town of Perg. After 1945 the foundation was re-established and the right of disposal was transferred to the market town of Perg. In 1957 the Bürgerspitalstiftung was finally dissolved and the considerable property went to the Perg market.
The citizen's hospital, which had since become dilapidated, was demolished in 1968 on the occasion of the construction of the Raiffeisenkasse Perg.
Future home for the Perg district
During the Second World War , the new, valuable collection for the future Perger Heimathaus was housed in the Bürgerspital. Gustav Brachmann had tried very hard. After the war, the Bürgerspital was to become a home for the entire Perg district. Most of the collection was lost due to looting in 1945. The remaining small remnants were taken to the home town of Freistadt .
The cemetery at the Kalvarienbergkirche
Josef Hauser, pastor of Perg from 1890 to 1900, had to solve the cemetery issue again after almost four centuries and fifty years of preparation. He prevailed against the intentions of the market community, which wanted to build a community cemetery in place of a parish cemetery. He acquired the land required for the future cemetery and in 1892 moved the cemetery to the Kalvarienberg. A Calvary church was built there by the market commune of Perg between 1734 and 1754, and this hill has long been regarded as the place of the future cemetery.
With the support of the market town of Perg, Josef Hauser had Friedhofstrasse built and an avenue of linden trees planted. The path is lined with 13 granite stations of the cross, donated by Franz Paur, coppersmith, citizen of the Perg market and grandfather of the later Mayor of Perg, Johann Paur, in 1837.
In the years from 1944 to 1955, many non-residents (refugees as well as soldiers from the German Wehrmacht and the Red Army ) were buried in the Perger cemetery, so that it was full early.
Konsistorialrat Karl Mayer, pastor of Perg from 1929 to 1958, had made provisions and acquired another large piece of land on Kalvarienberg, which was inaugurated in 1959 by Franz Auzinger, (pastor of Perg from 1958 to 2001), as a further part of the Perg cemetery on Kalvarienberg has been.
Soviet military cemetery in Perg
Inside the Perger cemetery on Kalvarienberg there is a military cemetery where 31 Soviet soldiers, including at least 9 concentration camp prisoners (Soviet soldiers) from the Ebensee concentration camp, are buried and which is looked after by the Austrian Black Cross.
Individual evidence
- ^ State of Upper Austria, Provincial History: Military Cemetery in Perg
literature
- Florian Eibensteiner, Konrad Eibensteiner: The home book of Perg, Upper Austria. Self-published, Linz 1933.
- Stadtgemeinde Perg (Hrsg.): Perg, Festschrift on the occasion of the city survey 1969. Self-published, Linz 1969.