Gumpendorf military cemetery
The Gumpendorf military cemetery was located in Vienna's 6th district, Mariahilf, and served the former military hospital on the area of the Gumpendorfer barracks on Gumpendorfer Strasse as a burial place for the soldiers who died there.
history
On November 17, 1769, a contract was signed between the abbot of the Schottenstift Benno Pointner and the chief war commissioner Dier on the construction of a cemetery for the deceased of the military hospital in Gumpendorfer Strasse. The first burial in the cemetery in the Gumpendorfer Strasse / Marchettigasse / Grabnergasse area, which was probably expanded soon after its opening, took place in December of the same year.
According to the death registers , 4893 deceased soldiers were buried here in the 15 years of the cemetery.
The military cemetery in Gumpendorf , like all other local cemeteries within the line wall , was closed under Emperor Joseph II in 1784 and was then forgotten. Residential houses, the Grabnergasse office building and a school in Marchettigasse were later built on the affected property . During construction work in 1949 and 1961, skeletons were found in this area, but nobody investigated the matter.
During excavation work in the school yard - a gymnasium was to be built here - one came across grave sites that were examined by the Vienna City Archeology.
Between March 23 and April 29, 2005, a total of 393 skeletons were found in 141 graves on the approximately 850 square meter property, which had been occupied with up to six corpses. The majority of these skeletons were only hastily excavated and later buried again in Vienna's central cemetery. 60 skeletons were professionally recovered and later scientifically examined.
literature
- Michaela Binder: The military cemetery in Marchettigasse in Vienna - The living conditions of simple soldiers in the Theresian-Josephine army based on anthropological studies , Phoibos Verlag, Vienna, 2008, ISBN 978-3-85161-000-0
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Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 28.1 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 0.5 ″ E