Vinohrady cemetery
The Vinohrady Cemetery (Czech Vinohradský hřbitov ) is a cemetery in the Czech capital Prague , in the eponymous district of Vinohrady . Václav Havel and Egon Erwin Kisch are among the people buried here .
history
The Vinohrady cemetery was established in 1885 and has been expanded three times since then. Today it covers an area of 10 hectares and is the second largest burial place in Prague after the Olšany cemetery only 500 meters away . Many monuments from the recent history of the country can be seen in the area of the cemetery, including those for victims of the Prague uprising in 1945 and for those politically persecuted.
The Strašnice crematorium , which was built between 1929 and 1932 for the increasing number of cremations , is attached to the site of the cemetery . Both during the German occupation and during the communist period, the corpses of those politically persecuted were burned here (including Milada Horáková , Matěj Pavlík and Vladislav Vančura ). The ashes of those executed were mostly not buried in graves, but buried anonymously on the cemetery grounds.
Graves of important personalities
Well-known personalities buried in the Vinohrady Cemetery include:
- František Alexander Elstner (1902–1974)
- Berthold Epstein (1890–1962)
- Jaroslav Foglar (1907-1999)
- Julius Fučík (1872-1916)
- Otto Gutfreund (1889–1927)
- Emil Hácha (1872–1945)
- Václav Havel (1936–2011)
- Milada Horáková (1901–1950)
- Čeněk Junek (1894–1928)
- Eliška Junková (1900–1994)
- Egon Erwin Kisch (1885–1948)
- Matěj Pavlík (1879–1942)
- Jakub Schikaneder (1855-1924)
- Otto Šimánek (1925–1992)
- Jiří Šlitr (1924–1969)
- Karel Václav Rais (1859-1926)
- Vladislav Vančura (1891-1942)
- Zikmund Winter (1846–1912)
See also
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Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 35 " N , 14 ° 28 ′ 52.2" E