Urfahr urn grove
The Urnenhain Urfahr is a cemetery in Linz district Urfahr . It has existed since 1929 and comprises an area of around 90,000 m² as well as a listed old fire hall, a gatehouse and a modern funeral hall. The Urfahr urn grove is operated by Linz AG .
history
The establishment of an urn cemetery in Linz goes back to the association Die Flamme . On the area of the Urfahr Stadtwäldchen, the urn cemetery was built from 1925 to 1929 according to plans by the architect Julius Schulte with a fire hall and gatehouse. This was ideologically controversial, as the Catholic Church then rejected cremation. After Schulte's death in 1928, his students Hans Arndt , Paul Theer and Rudolf Nowotny completed the building.
After the new funeral hall was built in 2003, the old one was shut down. In addition to Schulte's grave on the gallery of the old fire hall, there are some graves of prominent personalities in this cemetery, such as most of Linz's mayors.
Graves
- Fritz Aigner , painter
- Josef Dametz , mayor
- August Göllerich , composer
- Josef Gruber , Mayor
- Franz Hillinger , Mayor
- Ernst Koref , mayor
- Albert Ritzberger , painter
- Hugo Schanovsky , mayor and writer
- Julius Schulte , architect
- Karl Tobisch-Labotýn , architect
Web links
- Urnen Grove Urfahr on the website of Linz AG
- Urnenhain fire hall, Linz culture