Freistadt parish cemetery
The Freistadt parish cemetery has been the cemetery of the city of Freistadt in Upper Austria's Mühlviertel since 1855 . The cemetery is owned by the Freistadt parish and is located around two kilometers south of the city center . The over 13,000 square meter cemetery consists of an old and a new part and a funeral hall. The historically remarkable thing about the city's cemeteries is that neither the current nor the first two cemeteries were within the city walls.
history
First cemetery - in St. Peter
The first dead of the city, founded around 1220, were buried in the walled cemetery ( location ) around the church of St. Peter . This church is older than the city and therefore had the right to be buried. The church and cemetery are around three kilometers from the city center and are located on a ridge, around 140 meters above the city. This cemetery is still used today for the deceased in the village of St. Peter ( Waldburg municipality ).
Second cemetery - at the Liebfrauenkirche
In 1345, a cemetery ( location ) near the hospital church , north of the Böhmertor, was first mentioned in a document. The dead of the hospital (= poor house, old people's home), which was mentioned in 1311, were buried there. It is possible that the parish's funeral rights were transferred to the Church of Our Lady around this time, but no records have survived. The dead were always carried through the south gate from the church into the cemetery, hence the name of the gate of the dead .
In 1557 the city council decided to enlarge the existing cemetery and to enclose it with a wall. The last burial took place here on September 14, 1855, and around 1880 the site was handed over to the school sisters of the nearby monastery.
The school sisters' monastery was later built on the site of the former cemetery, and a car park was built in the 20th century. The small remaining remainder is now a listed building and is surrounded by an arcaded wall. A late Gothic shoulder arch portal and a loggia above the dean's crypt (1620–1855) are located in the cemetery. The loggia has one nave and two bays with groin vaults and a wall painting Last Judgment from around 1620. There are walled gravestones on the wall, which are baroque and classical.
Third cemetery - Friedhofsberg
The city's current cemetery has been in operation since September 15, 1855. First, a 6500 square meter cemetery was built two kilometers south of the old town in a then undeveloped area and surrounded by a wall. In the middle of the 20th century, it was expanded to around 13,200 square meters because the old part was too small. Between 1998 and 2000 the new funeral hall was built at the eastern end of the new section, so that the previous funeral hall, the Johanneskirche , could be returned to the municipality. The new building was also followed by a restructuring; so the eastern entrance area was redesigned and the war memorial was moved from the old to the new part.
Car parking spaces are available at the eastern and western ends.
characters
The figure of the risen Christ in the old part of the cemetery dates from around 1900 and stands on an ornamented pillar with a base.
Buildings
The laying out hall is a square, light-flooded room that was planned by the architects Helmut and Herbert Pointner and Josef Ullmann. On one side, the hall is open with glass surfaces to form a rectangular water basin with a stone wall behind. The extended canopy and the straight, fair-faced concrete panes are intended to provide orientation on the site.
Graves
A war memorial for the fallen of the First and Second World War is located on the new part, opposite the memorial for deceased pastors of the parish. There are wall graves along the extensive wall, some of which are equipped with wrought iron bars. To be emphasized are u. a. (old part):
- Biedermeier furnishings: Fam.Weissenböck (mid-19th century)
- Historical furnishings: Fam. Köppl (late 19th century), Fam. Laimer (early 20th century)
- Neo-Gothic furnishings: Fam.Mossböck (late 19th century)
- Secessionist equipment: school sisters
Graves of personalities
- Robert Elmecker (1942–1997), politician and member of the National Council
- Volker Tulzer (1940–2005), track and field athlete and Olympic participant in 1964
See also
literature
- Federal Monuments Office Austria (Ed.): Dehio -Handbuch. Upper Austria. Volume 1: Peter Adam: Mühlviertel. Verlag Berger, Horn 2003, ISBN 3-85028-362-3 , p. 192.
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 29 ′ 54 ″ N , 14 ° 30 ′ 2 ″ E