Urn Grove Kleinmünchen

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The urn grove Kleinmünchen is a cemetery in the Kleinmünchen district of Linz . It has existed since the beginning of the 19th century and comprises a rectangular area of ​​around 9,000 m² and a funeral hall. The Kleinmünchen urn grove is operated by Linz AG and operated by the Linz / St. Martin looked after.

history

The original cemetery of the Kleinmünchen community, which was independent until the beginning of the 20th century, developed around the community's church. This can already be traced back to the time before 1200 as the wooden church consecrated to St. Quirinus, around which burials have already been carried out. Excavations on the area of ​​the old church unearthed sacred wooden buildings, foundations of a square choir and parts of a former cemetery, the age of which dates back to the 10th century. The deceased of the parish of Kleinmünchen are likely to have been buried around the old Quirinus church until the beginning of the 19th century. After that, the cemetery had to be relocated to a larger area in the course of the population growth.

The new cemetery was laid out on a plot of land on the southern edge of today's water forest. The road on which the cemetery is located, was originally called Friedhofstraße, however, was in 1934 by Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi in Pestalozzistraße renamed. In 1938 the bones of around 1,600 deceased were relocated from the disused St. Peter cemetery here, as the cemetery there had to give way to the construction of the Hermann Göring works . The St. Peter cemetery was actually intended as the new city cemetery of Linz; the reburial is said to have devoured 40,000 Reichsmarks .

The Kleinmünchner Friedhof was finally converted into an urn grove at the end of the 20th century. Most of the existing graves were left in place, but no more burials are carried out. The remaining tombs are to be gradually replaced by urn graves.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Parish Linz-Quirinus history of the parish
  2. ↑ Barbara Hinterleitner, Helfried Hinterleitner: Kleinmünchen. 75 years with Linz . Linz 1998, p. 244
  3. ↑ Maria Karl, Stefan Kurowski: With hot wishes, Hermann Göring. From the village of St. Peter in Linz, which stood in the way of Hitler's plans for a steel works . 1998, p. 174

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