Tabor cemetery

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aerial view of the Tabor cemetery and the urn cemetery (far right)
View from one of the arcades to the main portal

The Taborfriedhof in Steyr is a large cemetery with an area of ​​four hectares and 8500 graves in the Tabor district . The oldest parts, completed in 1584, include the Renaissance archway at the entrance and an arcade with 84 tombs . The Erdfriedhof belongs to the parish of Steyr and the suburban parish of St. Michael. The neighboring urn cemetery with the crematorium opened in 1927 and is under the authority of the Steyr magistrate.

History and architecture

Historical views
Detail from a cityscape by Merian (17th century)
Detail from a cityscape from the middle of the 19th century
First section before the renovation (approx. 1995)

The original burial place of the city of Steyr was at the city ​​parish church , but this was quickly overcrowded during the plague of 1541/42. A new one, in the “Weichselgarten” near the Bruderhaus in Sierningerstraße, soon proved to be unsuitable, because in 1569 the area began to slide towards the weir ditch . The current property could be acquired until 1572; However, due to a destructive flood on the Enns and Steyr , the money provided was initially used differently. It was not until 1583 that the construction of the archway and arcade could begin. The latter is richly decorated with paintings and sculptures. This oldest part of the cemetery is a Campo Santo (sacred field) with a square plan. An inscription above the archway mentions 1584 as the year of completion.

During the Reformation , the cemetery was not consecrated, this was only done on August 31, 1628 by Abbot Anton II, Spindler von Garsten. A chapel also dates from the same century. The facility was expanded for the first time in 1841-42, when the rear tower was torn down to create a larger gate. From April 1874 the Jewish community set up its own separate cemetery , which according to the cemetery register comprises 141 graves. There is also a mass grave of over 100 Hungarian Jews, the victims of a death march in the last days of the war. A memorial star reminds of a leveled children's cemetery. The Uprimnystiege, which leads from Wieserfeldplatz to a side entrance (cemetery administration), is named after Friedrich Uprimny , a Steyr Jew who fled in 1939. Uprimny was the only citizen of Jewish descent to return after the war, most recently devoted himself to repairing the Jewish cemetery and died in 1992.

A Protestant part, separated from the Catholic cemetery by a wall, dates from 1892 . Another expansion dates from 1909. The home care association set up a military cemetery towards the end of the First World War , which has been administered by the city since 1938. Since the Catholic Church rejected cremation burials, the local council assigned the “Die Flamme” association in 1926 a neighboring plot of land for an urn grove ( urn cemetery at Tabor ). The Steyr crematorium, designed by the architect Franz Koppelhuber, opened there in 1927 . In 1945 the Catholic cemetery was enlarged and in 1950 a war cemetery was consecrated next to the old military cemetery. On November 5, 1953, the city council decided to take over honorary graves . The cemetery has been extensively renovated since 2000.

The earth cemetery is subordinate to the city parish of Steyr and the suburban parish of St. Michael, while the neighboring urn cemetery is under the authority of the magistrate.

  • Main portal and gate tower

  • Latin and German inscription above the main portal

  • Soldiers graves

  • The old evangelical cemetery

  • Graves in the Jewish cemetery

  • Uprimnystiege

Graves

Images of the tombs

  • Werndlgrab

  • Marlen Haushofer's grave

  • Michael Blümelhuber's grave

  • Hartlauer Crypt

  • Holub crypt

  • Spitalsky crypt

  • Leopold Werndl's crypt

  • Hack crypt

Web links

Commons : Taborfriedhof  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stadtpfarre Steyr: The cemetery on the Tabor (called Campo Santo), accessed on May 17, 2019
  2. ↑ Josef Ofner: Der Taborfriedhof , from the Official Gazette of the City of Steyr No. 11/1970 ( online on the City of Steyr's website ), accessed on May 17, 2019
  3. ↑ Mauthausen Komitee Steyr ( memento of October 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on October 8, 2012
  4. ↑ Reinhard Kaufmann - Little Guide through Steyr Steyr: Ennsthaler 2004 p. 66 ISBN 3-85068-297-8
  5. ↑ a b c Manfred Brandl - New History of Steyr, Steyr: Verlag Wilhelm Ennsthaler, 1980, ISBN 3-85068-093-2 , p. 71
  6. ↑ Neue Geschichte von Steyr , p. 71 u. 230
  7. ↑ Hans Stögmüller: Restorer discovered first abstract picture in the Steyr Taborfriedhof OÖN article from November 7, 2008 (accessed November 22, 2016)
  8. ↑ Steyr Online - Friedhof (accessed on March 26, 2011)
  9. ↑ Daniela Strigl - “Probably I'm crazy ...”, Berlin: List Taschenbuch 2nd edition 2008 p. 328 ISBN 978-3-548-60784-9
  10. ↑ Steyr online: Street names: K (accessed on November 22, 2016)

Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 43.5 "  N , 14 ° 25 ′ 11.2"  E