Tiroler Landesfriedhof Mariahilf

View of the arcades with the cemetery chapel

Arcades

Station of the Cross by Dominikus Trenkwalder (8th station)

Urnhaim

The Tiroler Landesfriedhof Mariahilf , also Mariahilf Landscape Cemetery , is a cemetery in the Innsbruck district of Hötting . In addition to its function as a state cemetery, it also serves as a cemetery for the Mariahilf parish. The built from 1881 to 1883 with conditioning Friedhofskapelle is under preservation ( list entry ).

history

In the course of the Josephine reforms, the Tyrolean estates feared the continued existence of the Mariahilfkirche , founded by them in 1647 . Therefore, the previous beneficium simplex was converted into a beneficium curatum, for which the establishment of a separate cemetery was necessary. This was built in 1785 above the church, in place of today's Mariahilf elementary school. Due to the unfavorable soil conditions, plans to relocate the cemetery appeared from 1840, but it was enlarged. In 1881 the Imperial and Royal Lieutenancy ordered the closure of the cemetery and the construction of a new one in the Höttinger fields, following a resolution by the State Medical Council. The state parliament therefore acquired the required land for 8,866.66 guilders and had the cemetery moved to its current location further up the slope. The cemetery was consecrated on July 1, 1883, the arcades and the cemetery chapel followed in 1891. In 2009, the cemetery was expanded by about the same size to the south with the construction of an urn grave system based on plans by architects Markus Illmer and Günther Tautschnig.

investment

The symmetrical Neo-Renaissance style rises to the north and is bordered on three sides by a wall and on the north by the arcades. The main paths in the central axes divide the complex into four grave fields, at the intersection there is a well. On the south side in the central axis, the original entrance portal connects the old with the new part of the cemetery. In the middle of the arcades, in the central axis of the cemetery, is the chapel, consecrated in 1891, which protrudes slightly and is crowned with a triangular gable and a turret . Inside the chapel houses a baroque crucifix. There are fourteen stations of the cross under the arcades. The wooden reliefs were made in 1891 by Josef Einberger according to a design and under the guidance of Dominikus Trenkwalder .

The urn cemetery, consecrated in 2009, connects to the south of the old cemetery. The park-like facility consists of 50 slender, 2.50 m high steles, which stand in a circle in the meadow and each offer three compartments for up to four urns. Near the old cemetery portal is a facility with a fountain and seating, in the southwest corner is the bronze sculpture The Eternal Power by Johann Weinhart . The main entrance with the company building is in the south on Sonnenstrasse.

With the old and the new part, the cemetery has around 1,650 grave sites.

Personalities buried in the cemetery

Kerle family grave with sculpture by Emmerich Kerle

Karl Gruber (1909–1995), politician, governor of Tyrol
Johann Haßlwanter (1805–1869), politician, governor of Tyrol
Emmerich Kerle (1916–2010), sculptor
Eduard Reut-Nicolussi (1888–1958), lawyer and politician
Franz Santifaller (1894–1953), sculptor

literature

Reinhard Rampold: The parish and parish church of Mariahilf in Innsbruck. Festschrift for the 200th anniversary of the pastoral care . Verlag Schnell and Steiner, Munich and Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-7954-0625-0 , p. 52-53 .
Rampold, Wiesauer: Tiroler Landesfriedhof Mariahilf. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved September 20, 2018 .

Web links

Commons : Tiroler Landesfriedhof Mariahilf - Collection of images, videos and audio files

State of Tyrol: Tiroler Landesfriedhof

Individual evidence

^ Tyrol - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of August 24, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), ( CSV ( Memento of August 24, 2018 in the Internet Archive )). Federal Monuments Office , as of January 22, 2018.
^ Office of the Tyrolean provincial government, cultural department (ed.): Culture reports from Tyrol 2010. 62nd monument report. Innsbruck 2010, p. 42 ( PDF; 16.3 MB )
↑ sculptor Einberger †. In: Innsbrucker Nachrichten , December 5, 1905, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ibn
↑ Robert Schwarz: A new, unique face for a piece of Tyrol. In: tiroler.land, Die Tiroler Landeszeitung, issue 3, July 2009, pp. 10–11 ( PDF; 5.4 MB )
↑ Josefine Justic: Innsbruckerstraße name. Where do they come from and what they mean . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7022-3213-9 , p. 151 .

47.268426 11.384261Coordinates: 47 ° 16 ′ 6.3 " N , 11 ° 23 ′ 3.3" E

[1] Tyrol - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of August 24, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), ( CSV ( Memento of August 24, 2018 in the Internet Archive )). Federal Monuments Office , as of January 22, 2018.

[2] Office of the Tyrolean provincial government, cultural department (ed.): Culture reports from Tyrol 2010. 62nd monument report. Innsbruck 2010, p. 42 ( PDF; 16.3 MB )

[3] sculptor Einberger †. In: Innsbrucker Nachrichten , December 5, 1905, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ibn

[4] Robert Schwarz: A new, unique face for a piece of Tyrol. In: tiroler.land, Die Tiroler Landeszeitung, issue 3, July 2009, pp. 10–11 ( PDF; 5.4 MB )

[5] Josefine Justic: Innsbruckerstraße name. Where do they come from and what they mean . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7022-3213-9 , p. 151 .